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What Is SOX Compliance?
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 requires financial transparency by U.S. public companies, ensuring their data is secure and accurate. Drafted by Congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley following several U.S. corporate and financial scandals, SOX compliance means having a formalized system for internal controls — one that provides full financial transparency.
In a blog post, the criticality of SAP governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) for SOX compliance is explored. The author points out that two sections (Section 302 and Section 404) are the most important and relevant for SAP GRC and finance users.
What Is SOX Compliance?
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 requires financial transparency by U.S. public companies, ensuring their data is secure and accurate. Drafted by Congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley following several U.S. corporate and financial scandals, SOX compliance means having a formalized system for internal controls — one that provides full financial transparency.
In a blog post, the criticality of SAP governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) for SOX compliance is explored. The author points out that two sections (Section 302 and Section 404) are the most important and relevant for SAP GRC and finance users.
An SAP SOX compliance checklist should address the following:
- Segregation of duties
- SAP GRC monitoring
- Safeguard SOX audit trails against emergency access
- Automate SAP audit reporting
Further Resources for SAPinsiders
Accounting & Finance Expands Its Influence. In this article, learn how UGI Utilities developed a strategic roadmap to better anticipate internal and external demands on the business — including regulations such as SOX. The utility shares how using BlackLine and its task functionality provides intuitive controls for SOX compliance.
Beyond SOX: Addressing non-financial risks through SAP configuration and sound supporting processes. Often, compliance is a focal point during SAP implementation to ensure compliance with financial reporting and regulations, such as SOX. However, there are optional SAP controls that could provide even more value to companies’ SAP system and supporting processes. In this session, Steve Biskie from RSM shares how to minimize and mitigate operational and strategic risks through SAP configuration. Understand who in the organization should be involved in recommending and validating control changes, and how to set up an appropriate cross-functional team to ensure decisions are sound and don’t introduce other risks.
Bridging the Cybersecurity Gap in IT General Controls (ITGC). Compliance with regulations like SOX often require a set of controls in place to mitigate risks to the integrity of financial reporting. Current ITGC testing performed by internal and external auditors is only focused on one slice of access risk. In this session, Brian Tremblay from Onapsis shares why it’s critical to understand the threats that exist to your SAP system beyond the current ITGC scope and how they relate to compliance with SOX.
A vendor that can help SAP customers with SOX compliance is Appsian Security. The provider offers a single platform for automating how users secure user identity, govern access, detect and prevent fraud, and demonstrate compliance with SOX, the General Data Protection Regulation, and more across critical business applications.
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Why Security Timing Determines Success in RISE with SAP TransformationsFeb 2 — Security timing often determines whether RISE with SAP transformations stay on track. This analysis examines how late risk discovery undermines migration, execution, and post–go-live outcomes, and why secure-by-design approaches change delivery discipline.
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What is ISO 20022 and Why It’s Transforming Global PaymentsJan 20 — ISO 20022 is revolutionizing global payments by providing a universal financial messaging standard that enables faster processing, richer data, and enhanced transparency, making its adoption essential for businesses to remain competitive and compliant in the evolving financial landscape.
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Cutting Through Compliance Noise: How Jabil Tackled SAP RisksSep 3, 2025 — With approximately $28.9 billion in FY 2024 revenue and operations in over 100 global locations, Jabil processes millions of SAP transactions daily. For this Fortune 200 supply chain leader, ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance across such vast transaction volumes was a major challenge: how to detect genuine segregation of duties (SoD) violations without being overwhelmed […]
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Becoming CMMC or NIST Compliant and How to Prove ItOct 12, 2022 — Over the next two years, many companies will face the challenge of compliance with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, the U.S. Department of Defense’s supply chain cybersecurity requirements.
In part one of a three-article series, we will demonstrate how to first understand the NIST/CMMC frameworks, and how they relate to SOX and separation of duties.
CMMC was developed as a response to cyber threats and breaches of the military supply chain. Any company that has ties to a defense contract or supplies another company that holds a defense contract will be required to prove Level 1 foundational compliance. Level 1 is all about the basics of safeguarding networks and data, or basic cyber hygiene. What a lot of people don’t realize is they are already doing some of this with their existing SOX and NIST 800-53.x compliance programs.
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Layer Seven Security Announces Cybersecurity Extension for SAP Version 2.0 with Major Advancements in Threat Detection and ComplianceDec 15, 2025 — Layer Seven Security's upcoming Version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Extension for SAP enhances threat detection and compliance for SAP NetWeaver, S/4HANA, and Cloud ERP environments, adding support for Java applications, advanced anomaly detection, an expanded library of threats, and alignment with latest SAP security standards.
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The Silent Killers of SAP Security: How to Shut Down Dormant and Unmitigated Access RisksDec 2, 2025 — SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) has evolved from a periodic compliance task to a risk-based approach, exemplified by ToggleNow's ReviewNow solution, which automates around 99% of User Access Reviews using real-time SAP data, enabling deeper insights into access governance.
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How AccessHub Helps Companies Meet Compliance Requirements Beyond SOX?Nov 13, 2025 — AccessHub automates access governance for organizations navigating complex compliance landscapes beyond SOX, enhancing efficiency, reducing manual errors, and ensuring audit-ready visibility across various regulatory frameworks.
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From Legacy to HANA: How SAP GRC 2026 Redefines Compliance and Data GovernanceNov 13, 2025 — Migration to SAP GRC 2026 on HANA offers an opportunity to revamp compliance and governance in ERP systems by providing real-time risk analytics, integrated control processes, and automation, resulting in faster reporting and stronger security measures.
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Compliance Made Simple: How Light DMS Keeps Your Documents Secure and Audit-Ready?Nov 13, 2025 — Meet Light DMS — a fully integrated, lightweight document management solution built on SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Business Technology Platform. It centralises document storage, enforces role-based access, tracks version and change-history, links records to transactions, and lets you go into audit mode with minimal headache — compliance made simple
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Lessons from Panasonic: Building a Process Layer to Future‑Proof SAP S/4HANADec 17, 2025 — Panasonic transformed scattered, legacy approval flows into a unified, compliance‑ready experience by introducing a central process layer for orchestration and automation across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, and key surrounding systems. By standardizing on Camunda and open BPMN/DMN standards, the team decoupled workflow and decision logic from SAP, enabling faster SAP S/4HANA migrations, cleaner core systems, and consistent, JSox‑ready audit trails across regions and product lines.
In this SAPinsider webinar session, you will see how Panasonic designed and scaled this process layer to connect multiple SAP instances and third-party applications via APIs and OData services, allowing approvers to work from a single task experience instead of jumping between systems. The speakers walk through concrete SAP scenarios, such as sales-order and master-data approvals, showing how reusable BPMN models, DMN decision tables, and a custom task UI provide business and IT with a shared language for change, while preserving full transparency into every approval step.
Watch this webinar to:
- Discover how a Process Layer can speed up SAP S/4HANA projects by isolating approval logic from SAP customizations, reducing risk and technical debt.
- See practical, SAP-centric use cases where orchestrated workflows improve user experience, shorten cycle times, and strengthen compliance in a multi‑system landscape.
- Learn lessons from Panasonic’s journey to scaling hundreds of process types and hundreds of thousands of workflow instances, including what they would do again, and differently, on future SAP initiatives.
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