Enhancement: Access Request Recommendations for Entitlements

Description

Access Request Recommendations now include individual entitlements, in addition to roles or access profiles.

Problem

Until now, users could be guided through the access request process with recommendations for roles and access profiles to align their access with their teammates. However, organizations that relied heavily on individual entitlements and had not yet invested in a robust role model were missing out.

Solution

SailPoint has added entitlement recommendations, which analyzes users’ access across multiple dimensions to identify the right entitlements for them to request. It looks at users who share similar access patterns already as well as users who share the same manager, job title, department, or location and then does an analysis of their access to identify patterns and discern appropriate recommendations.

Note: Recommendations will only be made for entitlements that allow access requests.

Who is affected?

Users at any Identity Security Cloud customer with the recommendations feature enabled—and who allow entitlement requests—will begin to see entitlements displayed alongside roles and access profiles on the Recommendations page of the Request Center. These are based on scoring from our algorithms. As before, only the top 15 recommendations will appear at any given time.

Action Required

Because our algorithm relies on shared identity profile attributes of manager, jobTitle, department, and location, it is important that those attributes be mapped and populated for users in your tenant.

Also, entitlements to be considered for recommendations must be configured to allow access requests.

Important Dates

Sandbox rollout: May 8, 2025

Production rollout: May 14-19, 2025

Additional Resources

Documentation: Access Recommendations - SailPoint Identity Services

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Hi @jennifer_mitchell, this is somewhat related to this feature announcement, but I was curious if the get-access-request-recommendations API response is similar to what you’d see for Access Recommendations in Request Center?

The use case I’ve thought of is querying for recommendations to send to a hiring manager whenever a new user joins the organization. I wasn’t sure how quickly recommendations are typically populated for joiners. Is this something you can help clarify?

Yes, that is what is being surfaced in Request Center. Request Center always passed in “me” as the target user but you can specify the desired identity ID in your own call to that endpoint to get recommendations for that identity.

It typically takes 1-2 days for recommendations to be generated for a newly-created identity.

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