SAP GRC Access Control - Introduction
SAP GRC access control helps organizations to
automatically detect, manage and prevent access risk violations and reduce
unauthorized access to company data and information. Users can use automatic
self-service to access request submission, workflow driven access request and
approvals of access. Automatic reviews of user access, role authorization and
risk violations can be used using SAP GRC Access Control.
Within
the SAP environment, users are assigned roles, which give them particular
privileges to access particular data and perform particular actions. SAP GRC
access control governs these roles, handling both routine access within the
system, and special permissions such as emergency access.
SoD
is a key part of access control. Compliance regimes like Sarbanes-Oxley
prohibit users from having certain combinations of privileges which can lead to
fraud. For example, if a user is able to create and pay vendors, the user could
use that ability to funnel money to collaborators, or simply steal money and
hide their tracks through fake vendors. Therefore, businesses need to organize
roles so that different users are responsible for entering vendors and
payments.
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Other
types of access pose inherent security and compliance risks. For example, the
ability to access credit card data or reconfigure the system could allow a user
to do harm to a company, through theft, sabotage and negligence.
SAP
GRC access control guards against both kinds of risks by controlling what users
can do and recording what they are doing. Within Control Panel GRC, the Risk
Analyzer holds segregation of duties rules, organized in a user-friendly
fashion. It examines what users can do, and automatically executes what-if
analysis to determine potential compliance issues. The module generates reports
and notifications, allowing managers to remediate compliance issues as they’re
detected.
Risk
analysis is integrated with the User and Role Management module, which ensures change management
and ongoing compliance. If a user takes on a new job or moves to a different
department, they need to be assigned a new role, but this can cause SoD issues
if not handled properly. User and Role Management analyze the request for
potential problems before assigning it. It also automates the workflow,
ensuring that risks are examined, and roles are assigned and signed off on by
the proper parties.
In
an emergency, an SAP Basis administrator or other user might need an
extraordinary amount of access in the system to fix a critical error or other
issue. Within SAP GRC access control, the Emergency Access Manager handles this access, minimizing its
potential risks. Users can create pre-approved authorizations to assign
emergency privileges. During the emergency, everything the user does is tracked
for audit purposes. Users must also indicate why they requested emergency
access and what they did, providing detailed descriptions which are then routed
to managers automatically for review.
HR
data is a special challenge for SAP GRC access control. it must be kept
accurate and up to date, but it also contains sensitive information which
requires tightly restricted access. Many SAP GRC access control modules handle
SoD, but don’t place extra safeguards on this data.
Control
Panel GRC takes a more secure approach with the HR Analyzer. This tool logs access and screen views of
secure data, and notifies executives immediately of any indication that HR
records have been improperly accessed or viewed. Data is automatically
scrambled outside of production, ensuring it can’t be compromised by system
testing and other non-HR uses.
HR
Analyzer also synchronizes HR changes like hiring, terminations, job
reassignments and pay raises with user provisioning processes handled elsewhere
in SAP GRC. This ensures HR accuracy and cuts down on the time it takes to
change employee status.
Key Features of SAP GRC
Access Control
The
following are the key features of SAP GRC Access Control
• To perform audit and compliance as per
legal requirements with different audit standards like SOX, BSI and ISO
standards.
• To automatically detect access risk
violations across SAP and non-SAP systems in an organization.
• As mentioned, it empowers users with
self-service access submission, workflow-driven access requests and approvals
of the request.
• To automate reviews of user access, role
authorizations, risk violations, and control assignments in a small and
large-scale organization.
• To efficiently manage the super-user access
and avoiding risk violations and unauthorized access to data and application in
SAP and non-SAP system.
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