Introduction to Access Optimizer

Access Optimizer (AO) is a powerful and comprehensive tool for risk analysis and role mining in medium and big size companies.

IBM® Security Identity Governance and Intelligence Access Optimizer (AO) is a powerful and comprehensive tool for risk analysis and role mining in medium and big size companies.

Access Optimizer is fully integrated with IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence role management facilities, to support continuous role development and optimization as business processes evolve. New roles can be automatically passed to a role management workflow where the role is approved and deployed to production.

The main advantages of the Access Optimizer engine are:

• Innovative pre-mining analysis finalized to generate intuitive business roles.
• Cost driven role mining with a rich set of parameters to tune the role mining process, minimizing the administrative cost of generated roles.
• Interactive graphical optimization to visually optimize roles with useful information to facilitate coverage analysis of user-privilege relations to identify potential side effects of analysis changes.
• Role lifecycle support integrated with role management for role deployment to production.
• Comprehensive management of risk analysis focused on identifying a certain type of risk for the company to find the right solutions.