SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance is a set of tools intended to help SAP customers streamline the management of risk and implementation of corporate controls. Recently, the vendor has also combined its cybersecruity offerings under the SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance umbrella

The importance of SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance and similar solutions has grown in recent years with the rise of cybersecurity threats, the proliferation of devices and access points, growth of cloud technology, and changing regulations.

SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance Solutions

A wide range of solutions are available for SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance. SAP partners also offer many products that provide similar functionality and are popular with SAP customers.

SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance is a set of tools intended to help SAP customers streamline the management of risk and implementation of corporate controls. Recently, the vendor has also combined its cybersecruity offerings under the SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance umbrella

The importance of SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance and similar solutions has grown in recent years with the rise of cybersecurity threats, the proliferation of devices and access points, growth of cloud technology, and changing regulations.

SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance Solutions

A wide range of solutions are available for SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance. SAP partners also offer many products that provide similar functionality and are popular with SAP customers.

  • Enterprise Risk and Compliance include products that help companies manage both internal and external organizational risk. Solutions for risk and compliance include Risk Management, Process Control, Financial Compliance Management, and Business Integrity Screening.
  • International Trade Management is designed to help companies dive deep into their potential trade partners to explore risk possibilities, as well as helping manage customs processes. Products for International Trade Management include Watch List Screening and Global Trade Services.
  • Cybersecurity, Data Protection, and Privacy is an area that is new to SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance and has become vital for enterprises with increasing attacks and new regulations around data protection. Solutions in this space include Enterprise Threat Detection, Privacy Governance, and Data Custodian.
  • Identity and Access Governance is a set of tools that once was primarily based around access controls but has grown to include identity management. This is important as companies have more system touchpoints. Access needs to be consistent across applications and devices to avoid risk. Products in this area include Access Control, Cloud Identity Access Governance, Identity Management, and Single Sign-On.

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders:

SAPinsiders are finding success with SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance with SAP and its partners.

  • Finding the balance of technology and process in Role Assignment Read this analyst insight to learn the value of role assignment automation and how it is critical to access control.
    • Webinar: Enabling Digital Transformation with Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) Watch thison-demand webinar to discover how CCM is playing a pivotal role in enabling smooth, secure transitions to SAP S/4HANA.
    • Event Presentation: Avoiding common audit issues when moving to SAP S/4HANA. Watch this on-demand event presentation to discover common risk themes, proven risk mitigation strategies, and how to document control decisions for auditability during SAP S/4HANA implementation.

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    Published: 08/May/2024

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    Discover how Identity Governance enhances SAP security, compliance, and efficiency. Explore the benefits and ROI of IGA solutions.

  2. Road to SAP data privacy compliance

    Published: 19/March/2024

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    Discover essential steps to SAP data privacy compliance with expert insights on implementation and ongoing management.

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    Published: 21/August/2023

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  5. SAP Security: Dealing with cross-division access in Saint-Gobain

    Published: 10/May/2023

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    Saint-Gobain South Africa faced unique access control issues due to having multiple companies within a shared SAP ecosystem. With a mix of role methodologies and outsourced providers, they consistently failed access control audits. Through implementing a GRC solution and a role redesign, they established a solid foundation for access control and mitigated risks. Continual efforts…

  6. Case Study: Driving Governance at Bridgestone

    Published: 10/May/2023

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    Bridgestone Australia faced challenges in managing financial risk in their SAP system with a growing team. After investigating several options, they discovered Soterion’s GRC solution which provided a clear picture of their financial risk in the business, enabling the team to present the stats to the risk committee and executive team providing peace of mind…

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    How Jabil Responds to Key GRC Drivers

    Published: 10/May/2023

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    GRC teams must find more efficient ways to deal with the constantly shifting landscape in which they work. There are an increasing number of security threats, while the move to SAP S/4HANA provides a new set of responsibilities for them to contend with. Additionally, data privacy requirements and regulations are constantly changing across all regions…

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    Securing and Governing Data at Rest

    Published: 02/May/2023

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Data at rest is a high-value target for hackers. It is a source of people, banking, product, and intellectual property information that is highly valuable for resale or creating counterfeit products. It includes quality assurance systems, development environments, client copies, disaster recovery sites, archives, and online backups. In this article, SAPinsider cybersecurity expert Julie Hallet…

  9. Slash SAP Project Cost and Data Risk

    Click Here to View the Session Deck Delphix Senior Product Manager Nick Mathison, for an exciting session on balancing data speed and privacy compliance to de-risk and accelerate all SAP projects while slashing cost…. This content is for Mastering SAP Premium Access members only.Log In Join Now... This content is for Mastering SAP Premium Access…

  10. Town Hall: SAP User Access Provisioning (IAM vs GRC) – Understand Your Options

    Soterion discusses scenarios where the benefits of provisioning SAP access using an IAM solution outweigh that of GRC solution, as well as other scenarios where provisioning access using the Business Role concept (of the access control / GRC) solution are more beneficial than that of the IAM solution. This content is for Mastering SAP Premium…