To answer the question of which Security & Compliance check is right for you, we must first remember that the term “vulnerabilities” can refer to very different levels of your system landscape and thus refer to a number of attack vectors.
This ranges from system-side levels (e.g. operating system and network security) to the underlying database including the current parameterization of your SAP systems down to the authorizations required for operations and applications, including any SoD conflicts.
So, the first question is – how sure are you that you know where your vulnerabilities are? Continue reading
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Pressure is rising steadily for companies to keep costs down and information technology has not escaped this. In the SAP environment, licensing costs make up a particularly sizeable share of the overall IT costs and they are now being reviewed once again by many companies.
The use of critical transactions is one of the most frequent items to be found on the lists of deficiencies prepared by auditors. And rightly so, since accessing SAP tables and ABAP programs with these kinds of transactions is unfortunately often associated with major security risks.
One of the biggest challenges that any customer faces when migrating or redesigning their SAP authorizations is ensuring the continuity of their normal business operations. As a result, IT units are often wary of curtailing user rights – so as to avoid conflicts with business departments that would result from increased testing workloads or more frequent error messages.
In many cases companies have to redesign their authorization management, after an audit. The requirements of the companies are often differs in terms of quality, duration and the project budget during planning phase of the projects.
