Transforming SAP Authorization Management

⇨ SAP systems are essential for managing sensitive business data, necessitating robust security and authorization management to prevent unauthorized access and comply with legal regulations.

⇨ Xiting Authorizations Management Suite (XAMS) offers a comprehensive solution for efficient SAP authorization management, providing tools for role design, vulnerability analysis, and the creation of secure authorization concepts.

⇨ The seven modules of XAMS facilitate various aspects of authorization projects, including role creation based on the principle of least privilege, effective analysis of user roles, and ensuring compliance with security standards.

SAP systems often serve as a central repository for critical business data which includes sensitive information like financial records, customer, or employee information, and other critical documents that companies need to operate. SAP systems are designed to secure such information and ensure that systems are protected from unauthorized access.

However, companies often need to manage authorizations due to legal regulations and auditing standards. This means that companies often review and update authorization plans, or even create completely new ones to meet the prescribed standards. This process allows companies to prohibit access by unauthorized individuals and preserve company’s operations in terms of its integrity and security. However, the challenge in managing authorizations is that organizations need to thoroughly understand their business processes and have good technical knowledge of SAP Authorizations.

Xiting offers Xiting Authorizations Management Suite (XAMS), a comprehensive solution that simplifies SAP authorization management. XAMS helps companies manage authorization projects more efficiently and effectively, ensuring compliance and security. It also includes the Xiting Authorizations Life Cycle, a best-practice framework for managing SAP authorizations within the ABAP environment.

The XAMS offers practical solutions for authorization projects, role redesigns and maintenance, vulnerability analysis of customer-specific ABAP code and the creation of SAP security concepts through its seven modules, which can be used individually or combined. The modules are:

• Role Designer: This creates secure authorization concepts by designing roles based on the principle of least privilege and ensures critical authorizations are checked and authorizations are assigned functionally.
• ABAP Alchemist: This improves existing authorization checks and corrects implementation errors in custom developments.
• Role Replicator: This offers comprehensive analysis and mass processing capabilities for roles, users, parameter transactions, and SAP Fiori objects.
• Role Builder: This automatically identifies authorizations during background testing, adhering to strict security standards (DSAG and SAP best practices) and examines data from productive test simulations to fix bugs before new authorizations are implemented.
• Xiting Times: This reduces risks associated with transferring new authorizations and sets up an audit-compliant process for providing extended or critical authorizations including backup/emergency user concepts.
• Role Profiler: This provides an analysis tool with around 100 reports to evaluate SAP authorizations for quality and risk and ensures the quality of the authorization concepts implemented.
• Security Architect: This automatically generates system-specific SAP security concepts and provides centralized system settings validation.