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. Manage Identities and Optimize Compliance with SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance

    Published: 12/January/2017

    Reading time: 12 mins

    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 of the services of SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance, depending on their business needs. It can easily be extended across the enterprise as…...…

  2. Live Q&A: Take the stress off your SAP Access Control 10.1 implementation

    Published: 01/January/2017

    Reading time: 24 mins

    Get answers to your questions on SAP Access Control 10.1 implementations, from budget and personnel resources to common pain points and blueprinting best practices. Meet the panelist:  Dylan Hack, Deloitte & Touche, LLP Dylan Hack is a Manager with Deloitte & Touche, LLP. He has 15 years of SAP project experience with global clients in…

  3. Manage Invalid Mitigations in SAP Access Control 10.1

    Published: 16/December/2016

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Learn about the different aspects and flexibility of risk mitigations in SAP Access Control 10.1. Access risk mitigation is used to mitigate access risk violations. It is applicable for all types of risks for different objects such as users, roles, profiles, and HR objects (job, org unit, and position) in SAP Access Control. Access risk…...…

  4. Debunking Access Control Myths

    Published: 10/October/2016

    Reading time: 3 mins

    When it comes to access control, there are a lot of inaccuracies and misunderstandings floating around. And when these misunderstandings go unchallenged, they can cost businesses significant amounts of money and time. So how can you cut through these falsehoods and implement an access control strategy that’s based on truth? This article helps you get…

  5. Live from SAPinsider Studio: Citrix Systems on SAP Access Violation Management by Greenlight

    Danielle Bass of Citrix Systems discusses her company’s use of SAP Access Violation Management (AVM) from Greenlight Technologies with Susan Stapleton of Greenlight at the 2016 SAPinsider GRC event in Las Vegas. This is an edited version of the transcript: Susan Stapleton, Greenlight Technologies: Hi, I’m Susan Stapleton with Greenlight Technologies. We’re here at the…

  6. SAP HANA Security: Preventing the Internal Threat

    Published: 15/March/2016

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Audio pioneer Dolby Laboratories, which has been delivering audiophiles a superior sound and sight experience since the 1970s, decided in 2016 that it wanted an equally stringent level of quality assurance for its business process testing. The business sought a risk-based automated testing solution to reduce or eliminate regression test coverage gaps and lengthy testing…

  7. Make the Best Use of Training Verification Functionality in SAP Access Control

    Published: 03/March/2016

    Reading time: 10 mins

    Nitin Aggarwal and Sanjeev Kotwal show how to use the training verification functionality in SAP Access Control to automate the training check in the user access provisioning process. Key Concept SAP Access Control is used to provision roles or profiles to users in back-end systems in a compliant way. Every request for access submitted in…...…

  8. Role Certification in SAP Access Control 10.0

    Published: 08/February/2016

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Learn about the different aspects and flexibility of role management in SAP Access Control 10.0. Business Role Management, commonly known as BRM, is used to create and manage different types of roles in SAP Access Control. Key Concept Role certification is the process by which an administrator can notify role owners to recheck the roles…...…

  9. SAP Access Control Implementation: The Myth, Truth, and Tricks (Part 2)

    Published: 04/January/2016

    Reading time: 20 mins

    Correct certain assumptions about the SAP Access Control system that are not necessarily true and obtain guidance on how to meet specific complex business requirements during an implementation project, including maintenance and support activities.

  10. SAP Access Control Implementation: The Myths, Truths, and Tricks (Part 2)

    Published: 04/January/2016

    Reading time: 21 mins

    Correct certain assumptions about the SAP Access Control system that are not necessarily true and obtain guidance on how to meet specific complex business requirements during an implementation project, including maintenance and support activities. Key Concept Myth is often the result of wishful thinking about the capability of a product that most times is unfounded…....…