IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

Overview of Degrees of Separation

The Degrees of Separation feature extends the relationship matching capabilities of IBM Relationship Resolution.

The default behavior of IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight identifies high-interest relationships and matches entities at one degree of separation from an inbound identity resolved to an entity. The enablement of the Degrees of Separation feature extends these capabilities to an almost limitless range of user-defined degrees of separation from an inbound identity resolved to an entity.

The Degrees of Separation feature uses separation configurations, roles, role alert rules, and relationship scores, to make real-time link analysis against very large data sets.

When an inbound identity is resolved to an entity, an entity graph is created using the one degree relationships that IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight detects. The entity graph uses the one degree relationships to build multi-degree relationship chains stemming from the entity the inbound identity was resolved to. A role alert chain can then be created by linking two multi-degree relationship chains, each stemming from the entity the inbound identity was resolved to. The role alert chain can then be used to find a relationship between the entities at the end and inclusive of each multi-degree relationship chain.

Degrees of Separation reduces work by evaluating all paths that connect two entities and using the strongest path strength in reporting relationships. Degrees of Separation can be configured to report one role alert for each configured role alert rule per entity the inbound identity was resolved to.

IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight reports that:
Degrees of Separation
Therefore, with the properly configured separation configuration, Degrees of Separation alerts that entity C knows entity E if they have conflicting roles.


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Last updated: 2011