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.

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.