Processing authentication requests for unified access management systems and applications using frequently invoked policies

A system comprising:

• a memory device;
• and
• one or more processing devices, communicatively coupled to the memory device, to:
• detect, by an access server, a triggering event pertaining to a cloud service associated with a plurality of policies, wherein at least one policy of the plurality of policies is associated with a corresponding policy data and wherein the access server is independent of the cloud service;
• responsive to detecting the triggering event and prior to receiving one or more authorization requests to access a resource provided by the cloud service, download, by the access server, policy data associated with at least one policy of a subset of policies of the plurality of policies, wherein the subset of policies is selected based on one or more statistics corresponding to one or more policies, of the plurality of policies, applied to past authorization requests received over a predetermined interval of time;
• and
• apply the downloaded policy data to evaluate the one or more authorization requests generated after the triggering event.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

• detect, by an access server, a triggering event pertaining to a cloud service associated with a plurality of policies, wherein at least one policy of the plurality of policies is associated with a corresponding policy data and wherein the access server is independent of the cloud service;
• responsive to detecting the triggering event and prior to receiving one or more authorization requests to access a resource provided by the cloud service, download, by the access server, policy data associated with at least one policy of a subset of policies of the plurality of policies, wherein the subset of policies is selected based on one or more statistics corresponding to one or more policies, of the plurality of policies, applied to past authorization requests received over a predetermined interval of time;
• and
• apply the downloaded policy data to evaluate the one or more authorization requests generated after the triggering event.