Self-learning access control policies

Techniques for self-learning access control policies are disclosed herein. A set of security policy modification recommendations is produced based on set of effective permissions and also based on a set of requests for access subject to that set of effective permission. Each policy modification recommendation is configured to alter the set of effective permissions by performing one or more actions altering one or more of the effective permissions. A selected policy modification recommendation is provided that is configured to produce a modified set of effective permissions.