The centralized access request management process of the SAP GRC Access Control solution helps to decrease expenses associated with compliance and security procedures. This allows employees to have a clear overview of which authorizations they have and when.
Companies face many security and risk management challenges due to a fragmented and siloed approach to GRC. This often leads to excessive SAP user access and a higher risk of fraud.
User administration
User administration is a key feature of SAP GRC Access Control. It allows you to check for probable risks, manage them, and improve your business. It also provides various tools that allow you to track and analyze the status of your organization’s security model. It also offers tools to prevent unauthorized changes and mitigate risk by managing the segregation of duties. This feature is essential for ensuring that your employees are not sharing the same roles, responsibilities, and authority levels as others.
The ARA (Access Risk Analysis) module provides a range of risk management functions, including checking for potential Segregation of Duties (SoD) violations, authorizations, crucial transactions, profiles, and critical roles. The tool uses a ruleset to identify and verify the correct scope of these activities. If a risk is detected, the system will report it to an administrator.
Administrators can use SAP GRC access control user administration features to create roles defining user rights. These roles can be assigned to users based on their job responsibilities and access needs. This can reduce the time and cost of resolving access risks. In addition, the system also helps businesses comply with SOX and other regulatory standards by defining SoD rules. It can also perform automatic reviews of role authorization and risk violations. It can even handle emergency user requests and prevent unauthorized access to critical functions.
Access rights
The dynamic development of new technologies has brought about equally dynamic growth of companies and enterprises. They constantly strive to protect themselves against external threats and internal ones that may be more difficult to detect. The problem is that the materialization of these risks can have a dramatic effect on financial condition. Therefore, businesses must systematically manage their governance, risk, and compliance issues with high-end technology solutions.
Managing access rights is a crucial part of SAP GRC. This is especially true as employees increasingly access business systems remotely and on different devices. Incorrect or inappropriate access can create security gaps and impact the integrity of an organization’s system. This is why SAP GRC Access Control includes the ability to detect and manage access violations automatically. It also provides an easy-to-use interface for self-service access request submission and approvals.
In addition, SAP GRC Access Control enables users to define Segregation of Duties (SoD) rules and manage critical access. This helps prevent unauthorized access by separating conflicting transactions or functions between different users. Additionally, it reduces the time and cost spent on access risk management.
Moreover, SAP GRC Access Control helps to ensure that only the right people can access your systems. This allows users to select the role based on their job duties and requirements. It also tracks user activities to provide an audit trail and detects anomalies.
Auditing
SAP GRC Access Control offers auditing capabilities that help you detect suspicious transactions or Segregation of Duties violations. This helps you improve internal controls and safeguard your information from cyber threats.
It allows you to track the changes in roles and permissions of users, identify potential incidents of fraud, and comply with regulatory standards and best practices. It also helps you automate processes and reduce administrative overhead while enabling you to provide faster response times to business risks and vulnerabilities.
The UAR module supports the process of periodic reviews/recertification of user authorizations. This helps you to harmonize the access in the systems with employee responsibilities and remove redundant authorizations (e.g., remaining ones after changing the position within the company).
Thanks to a simple interface, it’s easy to create requests to grant or remove user access rights. The system automatically distributes these requests to the appropriate persons for review and decision-making. It’s also possible to analyze the current state of SoD conflicts and to use a built-in risk analysis tool, which will allow you to evaluate how the requested role may affect the status of SoD conflicts in your company and prevent new conflicts. It’s also possible to provide emergency access by providing temporary super-user status using “firefighter” login IDs.
Reporting
This tool can help organizations identify and manage internal threats. The software analyzes various factors to assess the likelihood of a risk occurring. It can also detect and report unauthorized transactions and activities. This can help mitigate security breaches and fraud in your business processes. It also helps ensure that your employees use the right software and that the data is secure.
It also helps monitor and record user access changes, roles, and policies. This enables the company to maintain an audit trail and support compliance with regulations such as SOX. The system also allows organizations to automate and streamline user access management.
It also supports a process for periodic reviews and recertifications of user access. This can help prevent security breaches by ensuring that your SAP system authorizations align with employee responsibilities. It can also detect redundant roles and remove them from users.
