High Renaissance in Role Mining

This metaphor was used in a presentation to better illustrate how possible candidate roles-sets can be determined. I like it: it exhausts the position of the Role Engineer, even if his creativity is constrained…

As Michelangelo chisels away needless pieces of marble, bit by bit, an exquisitely beautiful shape emerges, similarly a Role Mining tool reveals embedded de-facto roles, clening up privileges, and the unavoidable “noise” – authorization exceptions and errors.
However, a simple chisel is not enough. Did Michelangelo follow a hybrid approach too?

The Pietá is generally considered to be the masterpiece of Michelangelo’s early years, deeply poignant, exquisitely beautiful and more refined than his later works were to be.