• COMPLIANCE
  • SECURITY
  • OPERATIONS
  • HUMAN

How to audit access decision logs with your AI

Connect Aserto to your AI client to turn raw authorization data into clear compliance reports and security insights.

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Short answer

How can I audit access decisions using AI?

Your AI pulls historical logs from Aserto to identify unusual access patterns or compliance gaps. It then summarizes these events into actionable reports for your security reviews.

Where every issue lands.

Audit outcomes

The AI processes log data into these specific categories.

COMPLIANCE

Audit-ready reports

The AI scans logs for specific authorization patterns and creates summaries that prove your access policies are working as intended.

SECURITY

Anomaly detection

Your agent flags unexpected access requests or repeated denials that suggest a potential security risk or misconfiguration.

OPERATIONS

Access pattern analysis

It identifies how users and services interact with your permissions, helping you clean up over-privileged accounts.

HUMAN

Manual review triggers

When the AI finds high-risk discrepancies it cannot resolve, it flags them for you to investigate personally.

The workflow

What your AI does when the logs arrive.

The AI moves from raw data retrieval to high-level analysis.

  1. Gathering logs

    The AI pulls a list of recent authorization events to establish a baseline for your audit.

    list_decision_logs

  2. Filtering data

    It searches through specific timeframes or user IDs to find the exact events you need to inspect.

    query_decision_logs

  3. Deep inspection

    The agent pulls the full details of a specific decision to understand why access was granted or denied.

    get_decision_log

  4. Reporting

    The AI synthesizes the findings into a summary of compliance status and security risks.

    query_decision_logs

Try it

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Use these prompts to begin your audit.

Starting points

Replace the bracketed text with your specific user IDs, service names, or time ranges.

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Claude Desktop

Follow the steps below to connect in seconds.

  1. 1In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors.
  2. 2Click “Add custom connector” and paste the connector link above as the remote MCP server URL.
  3. 3Click Add and start a new chat — Aserto capabilities are ready to use.
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  • Show me all decision logs from the last 24 hours to check for recent access spikes.

  • Find all denied access decisions for user 'admin-service-01' from yesterday.

  • Analyze the decision logs for the 'payments-api' to see if any unauthorized users tried to connect.

  • Get the full details for the last five decision logs to verify the policy applied.

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FAQ

How this task behaves

  • 01

    Can the AI change my Aserto permissions?

    No. The AI can only read and analyze logs. It cannot modify your authorization policies or user permissions.

  • 02

    Can the AI delete old decision logs?

    No. The tools only allow for retrieving and querying existing logs. Deletion is not possible through this MCP.

  • 03

    How does the AI handle large volumes of logs?

    The AI uses query tools to filter and narrow down the data before analyzing it, preventing it from getting overwhelmed by raw data.

  • 04

    Does the AI see my actual passwords?

    No. The decision logs contain authorization metadata, not sensitive credentials like passwords.

  • 05

    Can I use this to automate my weekly compliance report?

    Yes. You can ask your AI to pull the same set of logs every week and summarize the findings for you.

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