Mar 27, 2024
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SAP GRC
SAP GRC focuses on the governance, risk, and compliance practices, technologies, and processes used to keep SAP environments secure, auditable, and aligned with regulatory requirements. For SAP customers, this includes SAP GRC products as well as related capabilities for access control, process control, risk management, threat detection, identity governance, financial compliance, and privacy governance across SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, cloud, and hybrid landscapes. The topic is relevant to IT, security, audit, finance, compliance, and business process owners who need stronger controls, better visibility, and more confidence in how SAP systems are governed
What is SAP GRC?
SAP GRC is the set of tools and business processes organizations use to manage governance, risk, and compliance across SAP systems. In practical terms, it helps enterprises control user access, monitor segregation of duties, automate compliance workflows, detect risk, support audits, and align business processes with internal and external requirements. SAP GRC can refer to SAP-native solutions such as SAP Access Control and SAP Process Control, as well as broader GRC activities connected to SAP environments. The goal is to reduce risk while making compliance repeatable, visible, and scalable.
SAP GRC focuses on the governance, risk, and compliance practices, technologies, and processes used to keep SAP environments secure, auditable, and aligned with regulatory requirements. For SAP customers, this includes SAP GRC products as well as related capabilities for access control, process control, risk management, threat detection, identity governance, financial compliance, and privacy governance across SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, cloud, and hybrid landscapes. The topic is relevant to IT, security, audit, finance, compliance, and business process owners who need stronger controls, better visibility, and more confidence in how SAP systems are governed
What is SAP GRC?
SAP GRC is the set of tools and business processes organizations use to manage governance, risk, and compliance across SAP systems. In practical terms, it helps enterprises control user access, monitor segregation of duties, automate compliance workflows, detect risk, support audits, and align business processes with internal and external requirements. SAP GRC can refer to SAP-native solutions such as SAP Access Control and SAP Process Control, as well as broader GRC activities connected to SAP environments. The goal is to reduce risk while making compliance repeatable, visible, and scalable.
How do enterprises use SAP GRC?
Access control and segregation of duties
Enterprises use SAP GRC to manage who can access sensitive transactions, data, and processes in SAP systems. Access control and SoD monitoring help prevent conflicts, reduce fraud risk, and support cleaner audit outcomes.
Continuous controls monitoring
SAP GRC supports ongoing monitoring of business and IT controls rather than relying only on periodic manual reviews. This helps compliance teams identify exceptions earlier and standardize control testing across SAP processes.
Audit readiness and evidence management
Organizations use SAP GRC to document controls, track remediation, and provide auditors with clearer evidence. In SAP environments, this is especially valuable for financial controls, user access reviews, and regulated business processes.
Risk management during transformation
SAP GRC becomes especially important during SAP S/4HANA migrations, cloud adoption, and business process redesign. Teams can reassess roles, controls, approval workflows, and compliance requirements as part of transformation planning.
Identity governance across hybrid landscapes
As SAP landscapes expand across cloud, on-premise, and third-party systems, enterprises use GRC and identity governance tools to maintain consistent policies. This supports access reviews, role design, and risk visibility across mixed environments.
Where does SAP GRC emerge in SAPinsider research?
State of the Market GRC in SAP Environments shows that SAP customers are modernizing GRC as regulatory complexity, audit fatigue, and fragmented access governance increase. The research found that 60% of organizations are automating GRC processes and 53% are centralizing control workflows.
The Automating and Integrating GRC Processes report highlights the push to make compliance and audit work more efficient. The report found that 65% of respondents focus on end-to-end automated processes to meet compliance and audit requirements.
Cybersecurity Threats and Challenges to SAP Systems connects SAP GRC priorities to security risk. The report found that 23% of respondents experienced credential compromise, social engineering, malware or ransomware, or another cyberattack impacting their SAP environment in the past year.
Intelligent Automation and Compliance for Security and Controls Leveraging SAP GRCClick Here to View Session Deck. The world of business-critical application security is dynamic, with new developments happening on a continuous basis. A tougher financial-audit climate and a greater need for regulatory compliance have increased the demands and expectation of management. The implementation SAP GRC requires knowledge of both the underlying legislation, legal standards, and […]
Harness the Power of SAP GRC Across Your Entire Landscape, Options for Cloud and Non-ABAP SystemsClick Here to View Session Deck. Risk analysis across your entire landscape of business systems is critical for accomplishing compliance, especially as audits are becoming more in-depth year after year. Discover the technical options of how SAP GRC can communicate and analyze Cloud, Non-ABAP and Non-SAP systems. By attending this session, you will learn: Provide […]
Mar 8, 2024
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Soterion’s GRC Trends ReportThere are challenges on the horizon for organisations using SAP according to the GRC Trends Report. An increasing number of organisations are making the transition to SAP S/4HANA with the rapidly approaching upgrade deadline. One source estimates that around 22,000 customers have licensed S4, with approximately two-thirds of those having completed an implementation.
Dec 19, 2023
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Unlocking the Real Power of SAP GRC Access Control Solution with VASPP Add-OnsSAP’s GRC Access Control solution is a widely recognized tool for efficiently managing user access to SAP applications. It offers a wide range of capabilities for managing user access, including automated access provisioning, access request workflows, and risk analysis along with access management automation. The solution is also capable of enforcing segregation of duties (SoD) policies to ensure that users do not have conflicting access privileges. But while the tool offers a comprehensive set of reporting and auditing capabilities and is an essential tool for any organization that requires a secure and efficient way to manage user access to their SAP systems, it is also a complex solution that requires significant expertise and experience to set up and maintain.
This article focuses on VASPP's suite of innovative GRC add-ons to address some of the challenges associated with traditional GRC Access Control solutions. These add-ons provide organizations with more ergonomic and user-friendly interfaces and make it easier for end-users to submit access requests and manage their access rights. The add-ons offer a modern web cockpit that streamlines the access request process and provides a more intuitive interface that requires less technical knowledge.
Jul 7, 2023
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Segregation of Duties (SoD) Control Monitoring and Automation – Lessons from Jabil’s ExperienceJabil's journey with segregation of duties (SoD) control monitoring and automation has evolved over time to adapt to their growing landscape and compliance requirements. With the expansion of their global presence and diverse customer needs, role and access management across their manufacturing plants became a complex challenge. In 2015, they undertook a significant project to upgrade their GRC Access Control system, resulting in role redesign and standardization, along with improved SoD violation monitoring and quantification capabilities.
Jun 15, 2023
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Moving to SAP S/4HANA? What You Need to Know About Access ControlDiscover the challenges and successes faced by Jabil during their migration to SAP S/4HANA and cloud adoption, including Access Control and Access Violation Management. Learn about their collaboration with the implementation team, leveraging a previous SAP S/4HANA installation, and upgrading GRC and the Access Violation Management tool for a successful upgrade.
Jun 15, 2023
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VASPP Success Story: Firefighter GRC Log Review with VASPP DashboardsIn this success story, VASSP walks us through how it overcame challenges around the implementation of Firefighter management. Despite management’s request to analyze the data, it was difficult due to lack of time and expertise. However, the module couldn’t be stopped as it is essential for managing 24/7 production support and bug fixes across all […]
May 3, 2023
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How to Revolutionize and Harmonize Your Internal Controls and SOD Access with Pathlock AVMClick Here to View the Session Deck Segregation of duties is designed to minimize the risk of fraud and errors and protect company assets such as data or inventories. This is done through the appropriate assignment of access rights by distributing responsibility for business processes and procedures amongst several users. View this session deck to: […]
Mar 29, 2023
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Manage Business Roles in SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (IAG) to ease the Maintenance of SAP Cloud and On-Premise Access across SystemsClick Here to View the Session Deck SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance provides real-time access governance and continuous monitoring of user access by immediately calculating the access analysis results as a background activity. Organizations can choose one or all the services of SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance, depending on their business needs. It can easily […]
Mar 29, 2023
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How a Major Retail Chain Successfully Managed Multiple Integrators to Embed Compliance Objectives into Their S/4HANA ImplementationClick Here to View the Session Deck View this session deck to hear how our Retail customer kept compliance at the forefront of their S/4 transformation journey by identifying, documenting and providing guidance regarding security, GRC and automated controls throughout the implementation. Understanding the importance of these compliance workstreams, the customer selected Protiviti as a […]
Mar 29, 2023
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