Patent ID: 8042158

Claim:
A method of determining unauthorized user access requests in a data processing system, the method comprising the steps of: accessing a record of role managed authorizations and a record of manually assigned authorizations; receiving a record of user authorization requests from a plurality of data processing systems; comparing the record of user authorization requests to the record of role managed authorizations and to the record of manually assigned authorizations to identify any unauthorized authorizations; operating an interface between the records and the plurality of systems, the operating interface transmitting authorizations to the systems according to the records, receiving specific authorizations from the systems that are neither role managed authorizations nor manually assigned authorizations and storing the specific authorizations in the record of unauthorized authorizations; and responsive to at least one role assigned to a user, moving an authorization from the record of unauthorized authorizations to the record of role managed authorizations or manually assigned authorizations; wherein the method is carried out by one or more computing systems.