Modernize Access Modeling: Optimize and simplify access with AI and machine learning

Let’s face it, not everyone dives into an access modeling or role program with excitement and enthusiasm. As much as a solid access model is an essential part of an identity security program, building and maintaining roles at the velocity your business requires can be challenging, since it typically has been a manual, labor-intensive process.

In addition to the burden of doing access modeling the old-fashioned way, role sprawl continues to be a well-documented and persistent issue. The nuances of similar roles can result in an explosion of roles to try and meet business needs, sometimes creating a situation where the number of roles exceeds the number of identities.

With SailPoint’s machine-learning approach to Access Modeling, we help deliver the insights you need to build and adapt access to the ever-changing patterns in your enterprise while delivering the flexibility you need to help meet your specific requirements.

You don’t have to be an identity security expert to use SailPoint’s Access Modeling capability: it’s a guided system that automates the role mining and role creation process for you.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the challenges we address, and the advanced capabilities that next-generation Access Modeling can provide.

Automate role analysis with Role Insights

Building and maintaining an access model has moved beyond human capacity. Part of the solution: Role Insights, which employs a patent-approved guided process to build peer groups based on user’s access patterns and uses continuous role analysis and suggestions to review, refine, and maintain access models. Role Insights help overcome the complexity and scale of access analysis with automation.

Deliver usage data trends with Activity Insights

In a perfect world, you would have everything you need to make speedy and accurate identity access decisions. Now you can, with Activity Insights. Activity Insights provides a set of capabilities that allow you to understand how often an entitlement has been used in the last 90 days. This enables improved decision-making and usage context and helps you build better, more precise roles in achieving true, least privileged access.

Speed onboarding with Create Common Access

Manual processes can grind a role program to a crawl. What if you could improve your role programs’ velocity and drive productivity? Create Common Access uses machine learning to suggest access that is common across an organization and not necessarily tied to a specific job function. This streamlines the creation of roles delivering speed and accuracy while enabling full user productivity on day one.

Automate the analysis of entitlement assignment with Role Discovery

Building tailored and accurate roles quickly can be challenging, so why not let Identity Security Cloud do it? The Role Discovery feature in Access Modeling automatically analyzes access patterns across the organization using machine learning insights and groups access into specialized roles that can be assigned to sub-groups or departments for faster onboarding. You can also use Role Discovery with manually scoped populations for more targeted role building.

Eliminate role sprawl with Dynamic Access Roles

As I mentioned, one of the age-old issues with role implementations is role explosion. Role explosion happens when organizations have significantly more role-based access control (RBAC) roles than job responsibilities. Often tens or even hundreds of thousands of individual roles are created in these implementations. The cost of role explosion is increased administration and maintenance, performance and scalability issues, and poor user experiences.

SailPoint’s solution: Dynamic Access Roles. Dynamic Access Roles solve these problems by allowing roles to selectively assign access rights to role members based on the context of their role assignment. This eliminates the need to create a unique role for every variation of a job responsibility just because the access that needs to be assigned varies even slightly. Dynamic Access Roles can help replace tens, hundreds, or even thousands of standard RBAC roles.

This innovative approach allows customers to incorporate contextual information when designing and assigning roles, dramatically reducing the total number of roles, increasing access visibility, and understanding and improving overall compliance.​

Whether you’re new to identity or looking to move your identity program to the next level, SailPoint’s AI and Machine-Learning-powered Access Modeling capabilities can deliver a smarter way to create and optimize an effective and simplified role program.

To learn more, register for our upcoming webinar: Next-Gen Access Modeling: AI-Driven Roles for Least Privilege and Zero Trust on April 24.