Authorization Analytics

Unravel complex role structures and strengthen your IAM strategy with accurate, actionable insights

IAM Environment

Cleaning up your IAM environment has never been this easy!

Do you know who in your organisation has access to what exactly? This question underscores everything IAM is, and if you can answer it confidently – you’re good. More often than not though answering this question is tricky. Role structures and directories have grown increasingly complex as your company evolves throughout the years and manually updating, managing and governing them takes time, effort and resource. All of which are usually scarce.

At some point, unraveling and untangling this complexity can feel like a mountain high and one you rather let be. Because where do you even start? Well, we may be biased but we’d say: start with us! Our quick and thorough NEXIS 4-powered analysis (no license needed!) gives you actionable insight into your IAM environment. In just 8 weeks, it maps complex role structures, identifies risks and provides you with accurate, concrete tips for optimization. This ensures your role structures and authorization management is efficient, secure, and ready for the future.

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As your business grows, role management can become tangled and inefficient. Our Authorization Analytics unravels these complexities and provides insight into role assignments, authorizations, entitlements, and access permissions.

Losing Access Control

At all times, you need to know who has access to what and why. For compliance purposes, security, and efficiency. We help you answer this pivotal question with a rapid, detailed analysis of your current authorization setup, mapped-out role structures, and identified areas of risk that could use optimization.

Manual Processes

Perhaps you're still relying on manual processes or spreadsheets for authorization management. This is probably costly and heavy on the resources. We're here to help you set up an alternative. One that lets you take the first steps to lean and streamlined role-based access control (RBAC).

Traceability & Audit-Readiness

Manual tools like Excel or SharePoint make it hard and time-consuming to track changes accurately, posing compliance risks. Our Authorization Analytics pinpoints traceability and audit-readiness, giving you full visibility on the current state of your roles and permissions.

Audit & Recertification

That can be a stressful time! We can help you relieve some of it. Our service identifies risks in your current IAM environment, points you to its gaps, and provides actionable insight on how to bridge those.

What is role based access control?

Role-based access control (RBAC) is an efficient and automated alternative to manual access control, where permissions are assigned based on predefined roles. Instead of manually granting access, RBAC links authorizations to specific roles within the organization. For example, a company may have the role of “customer service specialist,” which has predefined access to various applications. When someone takes on this role in their identity management and authoritization system – such as Active Directory (AD) or any other directory Service – they automatically receive the appropriate permissions. When they leave the role, those permissions are instantly revoked, reducing manual workload and minimizing errors.

RBAC also helps businesses scale efficiently by automating access management, reducing human error, and improving security. It plays a critical role in mitigating internal risks and ensuring compliance with regulations like GDPR and eIDAS, while providing a clear audit trail for easier compliance reporting. By adopting RBAC, companies are future-proofing their IAM system, allowing them to easily adapt to new technologies and organizational changes.

Authorization Analytics

Actionable advisory for cleaning up your authorization landscape

We deliver precise insights into complex role structures, clarifying access permissions across your organization.
Using the power of NEXIS 4, we leverage real-time data to reduce manual errors and provide accurate, actionable recommendations.
Our service helps you prepare your IAM setup for audits by focussing your attention of your areas of improvement, facilitating you in staying compliant.
In just 8 weeks we deliver a full analysis and advisory report giving you detailed, actionable feedback with minimal disruption to your day-to-day operations.
Providing you with just that detailed insight needed to streamline role structures, allowing you to take the first steps towards implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in your organization.

Are you considering NEXIS software for your organisation? This may be a big step. Authorization Analytics allows you to sample NEXIS 4 without licencing it right out of the gate. Our consultants are certified officially for working with NEXIS 4, giving you unique access to both the solution itself, its possibilities and their intuitive understanding of it.

Use cases

How Authorization Analytics can help you

1. Data Quality & Security Risk Analysis

Problem: Companies often have outdated or incorrect permission structures, leading to security risks. For example, there may be orphaned accounts or employees with excessive privileges.
Solution:

  • Automated analysis of user permissions to identify data quality issues (e.g., unnecessary permissions, duplicate roles).
  • Detect security risks caused by excessive access rights and suggest targeted remediation actions.
  • Benchmarking against other companies to determine standardization opportunities.
    Benefit: Reduces security risks, enhances compliance, and improves data quality.

2. Role Management & Automation Potential

Problem: Many companies struggle with inefficient role concepts, making manual assignments error-prone and time-consuming.
Solution:

  • Identify automatically assignable business roles to streamline role management.
  • AI-driven simulations reveal what percentage of permission assignments can be automated.
  • Provide recommendations for implementing an optimized role model, allowing IT and business departments to collaborate effectively.
    Benefit: Reduces administrative workload, increases automation, and enhances IAM efficiency.

3. Best-Practice IAM Optimization & Compliance

Problem: Unstructured permissions and a lack of standardization lead to inefficient IAM processes and complicate audits.
Solution:

  • Compare the permission structure with best practices from other companies to identify optimization potential.
  • Recommend standardization of attributes in user profiles and permissions.
  • Propose measures to clean up departmental structures and integrate HR tools for a consistent IAM approach.
    Benefit: Increases transparency, improves compliance, optimizes permission management, and enhances IAM efficiency.

Evolution of workplace control

As your company grows, so does the complexity of managing who has access to what. Initially, with just a handful of team members, access oversight is relatively straightforward and simple; you know exactly who does what. But as your organization expands, more “others”—from new employees to external partners—require access to systems and data. This expanding network becomes harder to track, and without structured access control, it can easily and quickly grow into an unwieldy, tangled mess. Our approach offers an efficient way to unravel this complexity, bringing oversight and control back to your access management.

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Authorization Analytics gives you the opportunity to generate fast, thorough and actionable insights.

This includes:

  • The data quality of accounts, roles and authorizations (e.g. orphan accounts, unused authorizations, quality of existing roles, data maintenance)?
  • The measurable potential of role management, for instance reasonable number of roles, expected effort to determine a role concept?

  • What potential risks are there in your authorization structure?

  • Next steps based on the generated insights?

Some results to expect from our Authorization Analysis:

  • Basic configuration with NEXIS 4 including instaling and importing data
  • Facts and figures regarding your IAM data set, compared to a benchmark of other companies and best practices
  • Entity and identity reports
  • Analysis of: naming conventions, attribute data quality, account integrations
  • Identity Grid (in PNG and Excel), including an analysis and interpretation
  • Rol set simulation and recommendation regarding role modeling
  • Classification in NEXIS Customer Matrix with recommendation of future initiatives
  • Actionable recommendations and quick wins
  • Executive summary
  • Standardised presentation of results
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The steps to
Authorization Analytics

After your first consultation, we’ll have a varying number of follow ups to go from initial contact to proposal and from proposal to project. Once we start, this is what you can expect:

Phase 1

Preparation

During the preparation phase, we work with you to determine the optimal deployment location for NEXIS 4 and coordinate data delivery—whether from your IAM system or local applications. After our consultants import the data, we conduct a joint verification process to ensure the accuracy of our analytical work.

Phase 2

Data Analysis

We analyze your access permissions for anomalies, standardization, and various key performance indicators (KPIs). Our best-practice metrics include the number of user accounts without assigned permissions, orphaned accounts, and employees with excessive privileges. Additionally, we compare different business areas and simulate potential role models to answer questions such as: “How many business roles do we actually need?”

Phase 3

Results

In a final workshop, we present actionable insights on how to optimize your permission structures and highlight areas requiring attention. By benchmarking your current situation against industry standards and similar organizations, we identify unusual data quality issues, risks, and the level of standardization within your access structures. Our findings can serve as a foundation for immediate improvements while also supporting the long-term enhancement of your IAM strategy.

Balancing innovation and security

We help you balance innovation and security by integrating Identity and Access Management into your operations as the foundation of growth and scaling. We do this with tailored, scalable, and user-friendly IAM services and solutions designed to streamline your business and protect your data. Building on decades of collective experience and expertise, and an exclusive partnership with one of the most innovative IAM solutions on the market, we make IAM accessible whilst ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. From crafting an IAM strategy and designing IAM architecture to developing tailored roadmaps, program management, and overseeing implementation, we enable you to thrive in the digital age with confidence as your partner for everything IAM.

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André Koot

Founder |
Principal Consultant

 

Arjen Slim

CEO |
Principal Consultant

 

Timo Copp

Managing Director DACH | Principal Consultant

 

Henk Marsman

Digital Identity Expert | Principal Consultant

 

Bert de Vries

IAM Trainer |
Senior Consultant

 

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Depending on data availability and scope, a comprehensive Authorization Analytics typically takes 8 weeks. We focus on quick insights first, followed by deep-dive analytics for long-term improvements.
No. RBAC, PBAC, or ABAC are not prerequisites. Our Authorization Analytics works on existing access structures – helping you evaluate, optimize, or transition to a structured model.
  • Think of access management like handling keys:
  • RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) gives users a predefined “keychain” based on their role (e.g., an HR Manager gets the HR keychain).
  • ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control) refines this by using attributes (e.g., location, seniority) to dynamically assign the right keychain from a “key box.” If you’re an HR Manager in Germany, you get the HR keychain but only for German operations.
  • PBAC (Policy-Based Access Control) optimizes this further by applying policies at scale. Instead of creating multiple HR Manager keychains per country, PBAC ensures access rules adjust dynamically based on predefined policies (e.g., “HR access, but only in Germany”).
  • RBAC is the starting point, ABAC makes it more flexible, and PBAC scales it efficiently. Together, they help organizations enforce security while keeping IAM manageable.
No. Our process is non-intrusive – analyzing existing IAM data without affecting user access or system performance.
Not necessarily. While NEXIS 4 enhances analytics capabilities, our methodology is tool-agnostic and works across various IAM ecosystems. If you don’t have a solution in place we strongly recommend NEXIS 4 for the job as it is originally designed to do exactly analytics. There are test periods and specific Healthcheck/Authorization Analytics licenses available.
  • By mapping and analyzing entitlements, we uncover:
  • Excessive privileges & toxic combinations
  • Hidden compliance risks
  • Orphaned accounts & access anomalies
  • Opportunities for automation & governance
  • This reduces attack surfaces and ensures compliance without over-restricting user productivity.

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