RBAC Analyzer

The RBAC Analyzer is a unique capability provided by BalkanID that maps the current accesses within an organization to role buckets based on a combination of HRIS data (department, job titles, manager, etc.) and integrated application data (connections, resources, permissions, etc.). This analysis produces a blueprint that helps organizations understand their current Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) posture based on real-time data. Through this analysis, BalkanID's heuristics provide insights into how employees, their unique identities, and connections are grouped into BalkanID roles. These system-generated roles are further given unique, descriptive names to help users identify how and why these groups were created.

The BalkanID Clustered Roles do not actually exist in your systems; they are a virtual mapping that clusters how your existing connections (roles, groups, etc.), resources, and permissions can be grouped. You can use the BalkanID Generated Roles from the RBAC Analyzer to refine your IdP roles, such as Okta groups or Azure AD groups. This helps organizations keep their RBAC up to date at all times, which typically becomes stale over time if left unchecked.

Where most access reviews answer "who has access to what," the RBAC Analyzer answers the harder questions: "what should access look like," "which roles are trustworthy," and "where is the risk concentrated." It does this by continuously re-deriving roles from live data, scoring every role and every grant, and surfacing a least-privilege target you can adopt without disrupting the business.

The RBAC Analyzer is read-only by design. It never changes access in your source systems. It produces a blueprint and a set of recommendations that you apply in your own IdP or applications, then re-run the analysis to confirm the improvement.

What the RBAC Analyzer gives you

• Role creation: roles are generated automatically from HR, IT, and usage data across all of your enterprise applications, without you having to hand-author a single group.

• Confidence levels: heuristics-driven confidence on every employee → identity → role/group/resource mapping help you define and audit your RBAC posture.

• A data-driven approach: advanced analytics provide the telemetry needed to proactively detect and remediate both security and compliance issues.

• Risk-based remediation: achieve least privilege and right-size permissions without disrupting business activities.

• A least-privilege target: alongside your current posture, BalkanID derives an ideal (least-privilege) state so you can see exactly what to keep, reshape, and remove.

How the analysis is built

BalkanID combines a bottom-up and a top-down methodology to produce a robust RBAC model. The bottom-up pass studies what access actually exists and how it is used; the top-down pass studies how your organization is structured. The two are reconciled into BalkanID Generated Roles, each carrying a confidence profile, a risk factor, and a recommendation.

A deeper walkthrough of how roles are mined and how risk is scored lives in

How It Works: Role Mining & Risk Analysis.

Where to go next

If you want to…	Read
Understand the engine behind the analysis	How It Works: Role Mining & Risk Analysis
Learn what the generated roles mean (birthrights)	BalkanID Generated Role Clusters
Audit how trustworthy each role is	Role Confidence Role Risk Factor
Compare today's access to a least-privilege target	Current State & Ideal State RBAC
Drill into who holds which permission and why	Permission Set Explorer
See organization-wide access risk at a glance	Risk Dashboard
Turn findings into action	Remediation & Best Practices