Abstract: Selecting user access policies for a new system, by collecting user, access policy, and resource metadata for a plurality of other users storing data dictated by one or more access restriction policies. The collected metadata is anonymized with respect to personal identifying information, and is stored in an anonymized analytics database. The system receives specific user, access policy and resource metadata for the new system from a specific user, and matches the received specific user metadata to the collected metadata to identify an optimum access policy of the one or more access policies based on the assets and access restriction requirements of the new system. The new system is then configured with the identified optimum access policy as an initial configuration.