For example, an organization might allow your company to submit, modify, and check the status of defect records, and create and run queries. At the same time, the organization might want to protect the privacy of another customer by preventing you from viewing or modify that customer's defect records. Or, the organization might need to hide different records from different departments within a company. To learn more about security and privileges, see Administering Rational ClearQuest in the online help.