SecurEnds Access Analysis

Turn Access Data Into Actionable Roles

Understand how access is actually distributed across your organization. SecurEnds analyzes identity-to-access relationships to uncover common patterns, identify outliers, establish role and access baselines, and turn those insights into governed Access Templates that can be used across the identity lifecycle.

Access Analysis
Finance · Dallas · Analyst
92% match
Microsoft 365
Birthright baseline · 100% of peer group
Common
Finance Portal
Department pattern · 92% prevalence
Role
Payment Admin
Peer outlier · 12% prevalence
Review
Turn identity and entitlement relationships into Access Templates you can govern.
The Challenge

Role design gets harder as access grows

Organizations accumulate access over years of hiring, transfers, reorganizations, application changes, and one-off requests. Roles are often documented in spreadsheets, built through workshops, or based on assumptions about what users should have. Over time, this can create inconsistent access, excessive privileges, difficult-to-maintain role models, and limited visibility into what “normal” access actually looks like.

A scalable RBAC model needs evidence

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Which access should everyone receive as birthright access?
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What access is consistently associated with a department, location, job title, or job code?
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Which permissions represent legitimate specialized access?
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Which users or entitlements are outliers compared with their peers?
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How should roles evolve when applications and entitlements change?
Analyze What Exists

Build your access model from real access relationships

SecurEnds brings identity, application, account, and entitlement data together using out-of-the-box ingestion mechanisms including pre-built connectors, Flex Connectors, and file-based uploads. Identity metadata from systems of record—such as department, location, job title, job code, and other customer-defined attributes—can then be used to segment populations and analyze how access is distributed.

Identity Context

Use the identity attributes relevant to your organization to define populations and peer groups for analysis.

Application & Entitlement Data

Analyze downstream accounts and entitlement catalogs including roles, groups, permissions, and other access objects.

Access Prevalence

See access distribution by percentage—from highly common access to uncommon access and everything in between—to understand what is typical for a selected population.

SecurEnds Access Analysis

SecurEnds Access Analysis
How It Works

From fragmented access to a governed RBAC framework

Access Analysis helps teams move from raw identity and entitlement data to a repeatable model for defining, governing, and maintaining access.

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Ingest

Bring in identity, account, application, and entitlement data.

02

Segment

Filter populations using department, location, title, job code, and other attributes.

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Analyze

Scan access relationships and measure how commonly each access item occurs.

04

Discover

Identify baseline access, role candidates, peer patterns, and access outliers.

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Build

Convert validated patterns into reusable SecurEnds Access Templates.

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Govern

Version, approve, review, and maintain templates as the organization changes.

RBAC Without Guesswork

Find the right level of access for the right population

Organizations can use access prevalence and identity context to establish an RBAC hierarchy that reflects their operating model. Instead of forcing every organization into one role structure, SecurEnds helps teams analyze access at the dimensions that matter to them.

Birthright Access

Identify access that is consistently required across broad populations and may be appropriate as a baseline.

Department & Location

Discover access patterns shared by users within organizational units or geographic locations.

Job-Based Access

Analyze job title, job code, function, or other attributes to identify repeatable access requirements.

Specialized Roles

Separate common baseline access from access required by narrower functions or responsibilities.

Peer & Outlier Analysis

Surface users or permissions that differ from established peer patterns for additional investigation and governance.

Customer-Defined Models

Use the identity metadata and filtering conditions that align with your organization's own RBAC framework.

How Access Analysis Forms an RBAC Model

A conceptual view of how identity context and access prevalence can be translated into progressively more specific access baselines.

1. Define the population

Department: FinanceLocation: DallasJob Code: FIN-102Job Title: Analyst
Microsoft 365
100%
Finance Portal
92%
SAP Display
78%
Payment Admin
12%
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2. Establish access layers

Birthright AccessBroadly required access across the workforce
Department / LocationCommon access based on organizational context
Job / Job CodeRepeatable access associated with a specific function
Specialized AccessNarrower access for specific responsibilities
OutliersUncommon access requiring validation or investigation
Illustrative model: prevalence percentages are evidence for analysis—not an automatic policy decision. Organizations can apply their own thresholds, business context, and approval process when defining access templates.
From Analysis to Action

Role mining shouldn't end with role discovery.

SecurEnds turns validated access patterns into Access Templates—governed objects that can be used operationally instead of remaining static analysis. Templates can become a common access definition across access requests, lifecycle processes, access reviews, and ongoing governance.

Access Requests Joiner / Mover / Leaver Access Reviews Role Composition Reviews Outlier Detection RBAC Governance
Access Template Governance

Keep roles accurate after they are created

Role models are not static. Applications are introduced and retired, permissions change, responsibilities evolve, and organizational structures shift. SecurEnds provides governance around Access Templates so role maintenance becomes an ongoing controlled process rather than another spreadsheet exercise.

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Centralized inventory:

Maintain an organized catalog of Access Templates.

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Version control:

Track how template composition changes over time.

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Approval-driven maintenance:

Route proposed additions, removals, and modifications through governance workflows.

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Application lifecycle hygiene:

Remove obsolete access when applications or entitlements are decommissioned and incorporate new access as needed.

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Composition reviews:

Periodically review template contents quarterly, semiannually, annually, or according to policy.

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Operational alignment:

Apply approved template changes to downstream identity governance processes and affected populations as appropriate.

Inside a Governed Access Template

An Access Template can represent multiple applications, the entitlements within those applications, accountable owners, and a controlled version history.

Access Template

Finance Analyst

Reusable access bundle for request, lifecycle, and review processes.

Status: ApprovedVersion: 3.2
Microsoft Entra ID
Finance-Users
Reporting-Readers
Corporate-VPN
SAP S/4HANA
FI Display
Cost Center Reporting
Invoice Viewer
ServiceNow
Finance Requester
Knowledge Reader
Role OwnerFinance Operations
Application OwnersOwners validate application-specific composition
Review CadenceQuarterly / Semiannual / Annual

Version history

v1.0
Initial template
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v2.0
Added SAP access
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v3.0
Removed legacy app
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v3.2
Current approved composition

Composition view

Application 01
Entitlement AEntitlement BEntitlement C
Application 02
Role AGroup B
Application 03
Permission APermission B

Access Template

SecurEnds Access Template
Common Use Cases

One analysis capability. Multiple governance outcomes.

Role Mining & Role Engineering

Discover recurring access patterns and use them as evidence for designing or refining an enterprise RBAC model.

Access Baseline Discovery

Determine what access is common for specific departments, jobs, locations, or other identity populations.

Outlier Detection

Compare identities against peer access patterns to identify uncommon access relationships that may warrant investigation.

Access Request Simplification

Use Access Templates to present meaningful bundles of access instead of requiring users to understand individual technical entitlements.

Lifecycle Automation

Use governed templates as access baselines for onboarding and job changes, helping translate identity attributes into appropriate access.

Continuous Role Governance

Review role composition and maintain role hygiene as applications, entitlements, and business requirements evolve.

Peer & Outlier Analysis

Use this location for a SecurEnds screenshot that demonstrates uncommon access, peer comparison, or exceptions discovered during analysis.

PRODUCT SCREENSHOT PLACEHOLDEROutlier detection / peer comparison / uncommon access
Recommended: include enough product context to show why the access is unusual
Business & Governance Value

Make access decisions easier to explain, operate, and govern

Reduce Manual Role Engineering

Use organization-wide access data to support role design instead of relying only on interviews, workshops, and spreadsheets.

Improve Consistency

Establish repeatable access baselines that can be reused across request, lifecycle, and review processes.

Strengthen Least-Privilege Governance

Make unusual access easier to identify by comparing users against relevant peer populations and established patterns.

Keep RBAC Sustainable

Govern the full lifecycle of Access Templates through inventory, versioning, approvals, composition reviews, and ongoing maintenance.

Connect Analysis to Operations

Move beyond static reports by turning access insights into governed templates that support day-to-day identity governance.

Adapt to Your Organization

Analyze access using the identity attributes and RBAC hierarchy that reflect your own organizational structure and policies.

SecurEnds Access Analysis

Discover what access should look like—and keep it that way.

Transform identity and entitlement data into understandable access patterns, governed Access Templates, and a sustainable foundation for role-based access control.

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