MECHANISM FOR PROFILING USER AND GROUP ACCESSES TO A CONTENT REPOSITORY

A mechanism for profiling user and group accesses to a content repository is described. The mechanism for profiling accesses may generate baseline profiles and determine if new access behavior deviates from the generated baseline profile. The deviations may be defined in terms of folder and/or user-group distances within a file-system/storage and/or organization hierarchy, respectively. The mechanism also includes an analytics engine for anomaly detection and a recommendation component for recommending access-permissions to files/folders.