| Licensing | Resells the CyberArk subscription or licence and manages renewals with you | Sets licence terms and product entitlements | Agrees the licence scope and accepts the vendor's terms |
| Platform availability | Monitors platform health and raises vendor support cases when something fails | Runs Privilege Cloud under its own service commitments, or supplies the software for self-hosted components | Provides the servers, network and connectivity for any components hosted in your environment |
| Configuration | Designs and maintains safes, platform policies, approval rules and connectors to your agreed baseline | Provides the configuration options and documentation | Approves the baseline and any change to it |
| Account onboarding | Discovers, onboards and verifies privileged accounts in approved waves | Provides discovery and onboarding tools | Names account owners, approves each wave and fixes system-side blockers |
| Identity and access | Configures single sign-on and role mapping; runs access review exports | Supports integration with identity providers | Owns the identity provider and decides who holds which role |
| Monitoring and alerts | Watches rotation status, platform health and security alerts, and triages them | Generates the platform's alerts and logs | Investigates and decides on alerts that may be security incidents |
| Incident response | Contains platform-side issues, gathers evidence and supports your response | Responds to incidents in its own service and software | Leads security incident response and any regulatory notification |
| Changes | Prepares, tests and applies change requests in agreed windows | Publishes release notes for platform changes | Approves changes and change windows |
| Patches and updates | Plans and applies updates to self-hosted components; tracks vendor updates to the cloud service | Releases updates and security fixes | Approves maintenance windows and patches its own target systems |
| Policy decisions | Recommends rotation, approval and session-recording settings | None | Decides the privileged access policy and accepts any exceptions |