Aug 13, 2021
•4 minute read
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.
Companies Combine their SAP Security RedesignsA poorly executed SAP security redesign can have significant effects on an organization: unauthorized access, increased potential for fraud, inefficient access provisioning for end-users, and audit issues. To avoid this scenario and improve security, more companies are combining their SAP security redesigns with updates to their SAP GRC solutions, observes Adam Fattorini, Senior Manager, PwC SAP Advisory, SAP Security and GRC.
Companies are beginning to understand that SAP's security and GRC tools go together. "Why would I design security without a tool that can check for SoDs or can keep users clean and provision them? I might as well bucket those together. It's going to be a little bit more expensive upfront, but over the long run, you're going to save time and money," Fattorini says.
Read this article and learn:
- How combining SAP security redesigns with updates to SAP GRC solutions can save money and boost security.
- How holding meetings with stakeholders when redesigning your security environment can greatly improve the results.
- The importance of automating your control activities by employing continuous control monitoring.
Agile GRC for organizations running SAPIt’s a reality that GRC practitioners are facing a continuous barrage of SAP access complexity, as well as regulatory and business change.
Join us for this webinar as we discuss the mindset, techniques and tools employed by an emerging breed of agile GRC practitioners in organizations running SAP. Find out how solutions are enhancing business buy-in and accountability of risks.
In addition to these complexities and changes, organizations have increased their clock speed between 3-5 times over the past decade to stay competitive and relevant. In order to keep up with these changes, the organization’s risk landscape has changed significantly.
A more agile approach is required in the face of accelerating change, it cannot be “business as usual” for GRC practitioners.
Here's what you'll learn about:
Emerging trends and their impact on the organization’s ability to manage their risk
- What does it mean to be an agile organization?
- How the agile revolution is impacting GRC practitioners
- How to enhance your organization’s ‘Three lines of Defense’ with agile GRC
Aug 13, 2021
•1 minute read
Take Control of Your SAP GRC Destiny: Define your compliance roadmap & execute a journey to successCompanies must take many measures to stay on the right path to compliance, such as ensuring efficient security and GRC technologies, staying one step ahead of fraudsters, and satisfying the requirements of auditors. At the same time, organizations need to avoid common pitfalls they might encounter at different stages of their GRC strategy. How can you define your current state of GRC evolution and map out a realistic plan for your destination of compliance? How can you fully understand your priorities, your compliance needs, and the enhancements in SAP Product Suite that are pertinent and critical to justifying ROI?
This session will provide real-world insight and customer examples to help you:
- Define what the GRC and Compliance evolution is and why it is important to progress and plan ahead
- Gain detailed insight into the duration and effort required for each step in the GRC evolution roadmap
- Learn how key pieces of the SAP GRC products and SAP-endorsed solutions can work together to facilitate your current and future GRC and compliance evolution
Jun 8, 2021
•1 minute read
Security in SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori and their impact on GRC/IAGMigrating to SAP S/4HANA and implementing SAP Fiori can impact your GRC/IAG ruleset and your SAP roles - but to what extent? Attend this session to gain an understanding of the differences between ECC and SAP S/4HANA and to dive deep into the changed data model of SAP S/4HANA and the new authorization layers introduced by SAP Fiori.
You will:
- Learn about the changes to the data model and simplifications
- Get an overview of SAP Fiori security
- Understand the steps that are required to migrate an existing security concept
- Gather insights that are needed to understand the impact on GRC/IAG
- See a best-practice approach with SAP recommended tools to automate and simplify the migration and implementation
Jun 8, 2021
•1 minute read
Modernizing SoD to Minimize Risk ExposureAs organizations look to evolve risk management by improving alignment between Business and IT, Segregation of Duties (SoD) is taking the spotlight due to its inherent nature and financial implications. But how can companies look beyond their existing controls in order to fully address the business objectives of SoD and avoid risk exposure?
In this session, join the SAP Security experts at Appsian as they explore how intelligent controls that look at the data to identify violations (rather than roles and transactions) can strengthen SoD enforcement and streamline reporting.
Attend this session to learn how to expand your existing legacy SoD controls in order to be able to:
- Improve control over your risk exposure in key business processes
- Eliminate the risk from dwell time between audits and unaddressed violations
- Minimize manual compensating controls, and leverage automation when necessary
- Streamline SoD audits with an accurate view of actual SoD violations and accompanying details
Jun 8, 2021
•1 minute read
Keynote | Going live and sustaining compliance in a virtual world with HP and ShellIn a COVID-19 world where virtual has become the primary way of working, how do companies go live on new technologies and meet compliance objectives in a sustainable way? As companies resume their pursuit of strategic investments in IT transformation, they must be able to identify common challenges with going live and maintaining compliance in a virtual environment, establish a plan of action for preparing the project team and workforce, and put tools and processes in place to effectively monitor and sustain the solution and control environment. How can this be achieved?
Attend this interactive Q&A panel for a discussion of the following topics as case studies with clients examples:
- Develop the appropriate infrastructure
- Psychologically prepare the workforce
- Develop and evolve communication protocols
- Identify risks and mitigation plans
- Utilize continuous monitoring tools
Jun 8, 2021
•1 minute read
Keynote | Going live and sustaining compliance in a virtual world with HP and ShellIn a COVID-19 world where virtual has become the primary way of working, how do companies go live on new technologies and meet compliance objectives in a sustainable way? As companies resume their pursuit of strategic investments in IT transformation, they must be able to identify common challenges with going live and maintaining compliance in a virtual environment, establish a plan of action for preparing the project team and workforce, and put tools and processes in place to effectively monitor and sustain the solution and control environment. How can this be achieved?
Attend this interactive Q&A panel for a discussion of the following topics as case studies with clients examples:
- Develop the appropriate infrastructure
- Psychologically prepare the workforce
- Develop and evolve communication protocols
- Identify risks and mitigation plans
- Utilize continuous monitoring tools
Jun 8, 2021
•1 minute read
Keynote | GRC and cybersecurity for SAP S/4HANA and the intelligent enterpriseAs the single source of truth about an enterprise's strategy and operations, SAP S/4HANA and the Intelligent enterprise vision is the beating heart of today's modern enterprises. At the same time, cybersecurity and data protection have emerged as the top risks for enterprises. Compliance, security, and risk management are key in today's digital economy, touching customers and business partners in many ways that contribute to their overall success. Join Vishal Verma, Global VP of GRC Solution Management at SAP, to discuss the increasing role of GRC and cybersecurity in today's intelligent enterprise and to obtain a roadmap from SAP for organizations seeking predictive insight and key solutions to chart a winning business risk strategy.
Jun 7, 2021
•1 minute read
Keynote | GRC and cybersecurity for SAP S/4HANA and the intelligent enterpriseAs the single source of truth about an enterprise's strategy and operations, SAP S/4HANA and the Intelligent enterprise vision is the beating heart of today's modern enterprises. At the same time, cybersecurity and data protection have emerged as the top risks for enterprises. Compliance, security, and risk management are key in today's digital economy, touching customers and business partners in many ways that contribute to their overall success. Join Vishal Verma, Global VP of GRC Solution Management at SAP, to discuss the increasing role of GRC and cybersecurity in today's intelligent enterprise and to obtain a roadmap from SAP for organizations seeking predictive insight and key solutions to chart a winning business risk strategy.
Jun 7, 2021
•1 minute read
Governance Risk and Compliance: State of the Market 2021 Benchmark ReportIn This Report: Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) systems and professionals are increasingly important as regulations around data become stricter and corporate systems become a more frequent target of cybersecurity attacks. These risks and compliance challenges are compounded by the fact that many SAP organizations are in the process of transitioning to new technology — […]
May 28, 2021
•1 minute read
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