SAP Access Control


What is SAP Access Control?

Improper access is a major security threat to SAP and other enterprise systems. The issue only gets worse as employees increasingly access their relevant applications remotely and on varying, often personal, devices. The goal of SAP Access Control is to ensure the right people are using the right software from the right device. It also helps track access information in case it needs to be reported later for compliance purposes or assessed for risk.

SAP Access Control’s key functions include:

  • Risk analysis
  • User provisioning
  • Monitoring privileges
  • Certifying authorizations
  • Integration with enterprise systems
  • Role definition and maintenance

Key SAP Access Control Considerations for SAPinsiders

What is SAP Access Control?

Improper access is a major security threat to SAP and other enterprise systems. The issue only gets worse as employees increasingly access their relevant applications remotely and on varying, often personal, devices. The goal of SAP Access Control is to ensure the right people are using the right software from the right device. It also helps track access information in case it needs to be reported later for compliance purposes or assessed for risk.

SAP Access Control’s key functions include:

  • Risk analysis
  • User provisioning
  • Monitoring privileges
  • Certifying authorizations
  • Integration with enterprise systems
  • Role definition and maintenance

Key SAP Access Control Considerations for SAPinsiders

  • Quantify how improving user access and identity management impacts the bottom line. Most governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) organizations surveyed for our recent User Access and Identity Management for SAP S/4HANA report are facing budget constraints. That can make it hard to invest in software like SAP Access Control, but you can build the business case by finding those areas where unauthorized access can be costly. Added costs can come from cyberattacks, fraud, compliance-related fines, and rework to address audit issues. The cybersecurity threats are real — over a quarter of respondents noted having an access-related security breach in our April 2021 Securing the SAP Landscape Against Cyber Threats report.
  • Audit your user access landscape. First, gain an understanding of which users are accessing which systems and why. Then, survey your users and identify which roles need which systems. These steps can help you be more efficient in integrating your access across your technology footprint.
  • Integrate user access and identity management across your technology stack as part of your migration. Respondents to our latest User Access and Identity Management survey who worked for leading organizations were much more likely to integrate user access and identity management as part of digital transformation and integrate identity management across their heterogeneous application landscapes. These actions can help you optimize investment in software like SAP Access Control and create a holistic user access and identity management strategy.
  • Centralize user access and identity processes to maximize your next technology investment. Centralizing user access and identity management can provide benefits that reduce risk, enable compliance, and make securing your systems easier. However, you must first unify the process by which you identify users and grant access to systems, no matter the business area or solution. That will make any technological investment more valuable when implemented.

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  1. Q&A: How Protiviti’s Identropy Acquisition Meets Growing Identity and Access Management Demands

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    by Annie Kennedy, SAPinsider In the past year, a global shift to remote working and transformations to digital environments have amplified business’ need for more efficient and secure access governance. SAPinsider spoke with management and technology consulting firm Protiviti about how their recent acquisition of Identropy, which specializes in identity and access management (IAM), can…
  2. User Identity, Access Management, and Security

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    As companies move from on premise to the cloud and become more complex, it is paramount to have the correct user identity and access management. How are companies provisioning user access, managing access, and maintaining their systems in an ever-changing environment? Presentations will arm you with best practices for monitoring and managing user access. Learn…
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    Mahindra CIE Automotive Ltd. Reduces Risk and Hours of Manual Effort by Automating Its SAP User Provisioning Processes

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    Mahindra CIE Automotive Ltd. (MCIE), as a growing, publicly traded, international company, must follow a variety of regulations and compliance standards and undergo various statutory audits. In the first quarter of 2019, the company’s board of directors stressed the importance of putting in place stronger security and compliance controls to provide better assurance to investors…
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    Single Sign-On (SSO), combined with 2-factor/multi-factor authentication (2FA/MFA) can — if not implemented correctly — negatively affect user experience and cause frustration, reducing productivity. Attend this session to find out how to reduce this potential negative impact using the CyberSafe TrustBroker products and watch a live demo of some typical user logon scenarios and solutions.…
  5. Lessons Learned From Stanley Black & Decker’s SOD-free Role Design During an SAP S/4HANA Implementation

    Watch this session to learn how Stanley Black and Decker (SBD) designed a Fiori security architecture for SAP S/4HAHA and Central Finance. In addition, discover how SBD built in a robust set of configurable controls to automate, optimize, and standardize business processes. Lastly, explore how SBD leveraged Access Control 10.1 to enable continuous compliance of…
  6. Case Study: How Stryker simplified and automated user access with SAP GRC solutions

    Medical technologies company Stryker evolved from a manual request process using ServiceNow and DocuSign platforms to an automated workflow for FDA training, approval verification, compliance, and automated provisioning. In this session, learn how Stryker improved its governance process by eliminating offline emails and e-signatures that were previously required before access could be granted to key…
  7. SAP GRC Access Control 12.0 and SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance

    This session will explore the details of functionality, differentiators, and important platform aspects in the latest SAP GRC On-Premise and Cloud provisioning and compliance solutions. You will gain detail insight into the SAP Compliance applications of SAP GRC Access Control 12.0 and SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance and which application, platform, and functionality is best…
  8. Don’t let privileged user access to HR, procurement and other Cloud applications disrupt business

    Although the risks associated with privileged accounts in business applications are known, few organizations truly understand how exposed they are. Forrester estimates that 80% of security breaches involve privileged credentials. By leaving the management of privileged accounts to system administrators, organizations expose themselves to negligent password management, accounts that are never deprovisioned, and an increased…
  9. Automating Access Governance in a Cloud-Based Landscape

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    According to our research, the most popular GRC solution being used by the SAPinsider Community is SAP Access Control. And yet more than half (63%) said that their current GRC solutions do not meet the need to effectively handle risk analysis and mitigation for cloud-based products without some sort of connector or bridge to a…
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    Brighthouse Financial Accelerates User Provisioning Cycles

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    Before integrating Saviynt’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution and SAP Access Control, Brighthouse Financial ran an entirely manual user provisioning process using an access request feature in SharePoint. This case study explains how the Fortune 500 company improved their user provisioning processes for SAP products with SAP Access Control and then implemented Saviynt’s IGA…