Automatic generation of policies and roles for role based access control

A method of automatically generating roles for role based access (RBAC), comprising:

• presenting a policy generation table identifying scripts and roles to which the scripts correspond to an operator;
• receiving at least one operator input selecting a plurality of desired scripts to be associated with a desired role;
• parsing from the selected scripts verb-switches contained within the selected scripts;
• comparing each of the parsed verb-switches to existing roles;
• and
• when there is not at least one existing role to which each of the verb-switches corresponds, generating a role that includes each of the parsed verb-switches.

An information system, comprising:

• a role based access control (RBAC) policy/role generator that:
• presents a policy generation table identifying scripts and roles to which the scripts correspond to an operator;
• receives at least one operator input selecting a plurality of desired scripts to be associated with a desired policy;
• parses from the selected scripts verb-switches contained within the selected scripts;
• compares the parsed verb-switches to existing policies;
• and
• when there is at least one of the parsed verb-switches that does not correspond to at least one existing policy, identifies the parsed verb-switch that does not correspond to at least one existing policy and generates a policy that includes the identified parsed verb-switch.