User-customizable permissions in a computing environment

A computer-implemented method for providing user-customizable permissions governing user access to computing resources in a computing system the method comprising:

• maintaining, by one or more servers, a database storing data objects identifying permissions of users, sets of the permissions, and users;
• causing to be displayed, in a user interface on a display of a user device, one or more fields configured to receive input to perform one or more of:
• defining or updating a custom permission definable by a user of the computing system, associating a custom permission with a computing resource, assigning a custom permission to a permission set, or assigning a permission set to which a custom permission has been assigned to a user;
• receiving, at the one or more servers, input from a first user via the user interface on the display of the user device;
• performing one or more of:
• defining or updating, based on the input, a custom permission,
• associating, based on the input, a custom permission with a computing resource,
• assigning, based on the input, a custom permission to a permission set, or
• assigning, based on the input, a permission set to which a custom permission has been assigned to a second user;
• and
• updating the database such that the data objects identify a custom permission or a permission set to which a custom permission has been assigned.

A computer program product comprising computer-readable program code to be executed by one or more processors when retrieved from a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the program code including instructions configured to cause:

• maintaining, by one or more servers, a database storing data objects identifying permissions of users governing user access to computing resources in a computing system, sets of the permissions, and users;
• displaying, in a user interface on a display of a user device, one or more fields configured to receive input to perform one or more of:
• defining or updating a custom permission definable by a user of the computing system, associating a custom permission with a computing resource, assigning a custom permission to a permission set, or assigning a permission set to which a custom permission has been assigned to a user;
• performing one or more of:
• defining or updating, based on input from a first user via the user interface on the display of the user device, a custom permission,
• associating, based on the input, a custom permission with a computing resource,
• assigning, based on the input, a custom permission to a permission set, or
• assigning, based on the input, a permission set to which a custom permission has been assigned to a second user;
• and
• updating the database such that the data objects identify a custom permission or a permission set to which a custom permission has been assigned.