Abstract: Assistance is provided to policy exception approvers that make decisions on whether to grant or deny policy exception requests. A determination can be made regarding an amount of impact associated with granting a policy exception request based on a comparison of conditions before and after policy enactment. The probability of an impact occurring can be determined as a result of granting the policy exception based on past impact occurrences. A risk rating can be computed as a function of the amount of impact and the probability of the impact, and a visual representation of the risk rating can be generated and displayed to the policy exception approvers.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide for a system to assist policy exception approvers in making decisions on whether to grant or deny policy exception requests. The system disclosed herein takes in information about the policy and determines a risk level associated with granting the request and provides a color coded recommendation. Information that can be considered by the recommendation system includes loss associated with similar policy exception grants, the likelihood of loss occurring, and other contextual information about the operating environment. In an embodiment, if any of the information changes, the recommendation system can provide updated recommendations and or alerts.