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Run access reviews driven by usage evidence, not user attestation, and complete them in days not weeks

Quick Summary: Oleria Trustfusion, an AI-native identity security platform, transforms evidence-based access reviews by surfacing actual usage signals, peer-group analysis, and HR changes on every review line — so reviewers approve on data, not memory, and reviews complete in days, not weeks.

Why this is hard without Oleria

Traditional access reviews ask reviewers — typically managers — to confirm that each report needs the access they have. Reviewers don't know what their reports actually use; they approve everything to avoid disrupting work. The review consumes weeks of effort and produces approvals that don't reflect actual need.

The result is well-documented in audit findings: reviews complete on time, but the access set never narrows. Auditors increasingly press on the question of whether the review is doing real work. The IGA tools that drive the review have no way to surface usage evidence to the reviewer. After deploying Oleria, Aireon replaced 24,000 hours of projected manual review effort with continuous automated monitoring — the speed at which the control becomes real. As Peter Clay, CISO at Aireon, puts it: "Speed kills all problems. So it's just how fast can we adapt? How fast can we react?"

AT A GLANCE

Weeks → days
Cycle time
30–60 min
Per manager effort
Manager, no IAM
Skill needed

Oleria AI

Oleria's AI proposes a default decision for every line based on usage and role context, and flags the outliers worth a human look. The reviewer accepts in bulk and spends real attention only where it matters.

How it works

  1. Define scope and reviewers — Quarterly review of standing access for the team. Reviewer is the manager. Scope is configurable per app, per data sensitivity, per identity type.
  2. Generate review with evidence — Each report's access lines populated with usage evidence and recommended decision.
  3. Reviewers act — Bulk-accept the recommendation, override individual lines. Most reviews complete in 30–60 minutes per manager.
  4. Closeout and audit — Decisions logged; revocations executed; evidence pack assembles for the audit cycle.

What good look like

Time to complete a quarterly review cycle Weeks → days

Manager time per review Hours → 30–60 minutes

Access actually narrowed by review From near 0 to materially significant

Audit findings on review quality Eliminated

See evidence-based access reviews in action.

Most quarterly reviews complete on paper but change nothing for security — reviewers approve everything to avoid disrupting work. See how Oleria surfaces real usage data, peer signals, and AI recommendations so every access review decision is defensible.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the realistic adoption pattern?

Start with privileged or regulated-data scope; by the fourth cycle the review just runs.

How does this affect compliance frameworks?

Usage-driven reviews produce stronger evidence than self-attestation across SOX, HIPAA, ISO 27001.

What happens when a reviewer disagrees with Oleria's recommendation?

Override per line with justification logged in the audit trail.

What does the reviewer actually see for each access line?

Last-used date, dormant days, peer-group context, HR changes, and recommended decision.

How does usage evidence change the review?

Each line shows what was used with a recommended decision — confirm the recommendation, not reason from memory.

What's broken about traditional access reviews?

Reviewers confirm access without evidence and rubber-stamp to avoid disruption.