Role redesign, Segregation of Duties remediation, GRC Access Control, and security hardening. Close audit findings and reduce risk across ECC and S/4HANA.
SAP holds your most sensitive financial and operational data, yet most authorization models have drifted for years: over-provisioned roles, thousands of Segregation of Duties conflicts, and SAP_ALL quietly living in production. When auditors arrive, remediation becomes a fire drill. We rebuild access control on a clean foundation, remediate SoD risk, and turn audits into a non-event, on ECC today and S/4HANA tomorrow.
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Years of incremental access grants leave most landscapes with thousands of Segregation of Duties violations. Without a risk ruleset and a remediation plan, every external audit reopens the same findings, and mitigating controls pile up faster than anyone can review them.
Composite roles accumulate authorizations no one remembers granting. SAP_ALL and wide-open S_TCODE values sit in production 'temporarily.' Each one is an audit finding and a real breach path that bypasses your business controls.
When SOX or external auditors request user access reviews, firefighter logs, or change evidence, teams scramble to assemble it manually. Without continuous controls and reporting, every audit cycle consumes weeks of senior staff time.
S/4HANA's new transaction codes, Fiori catalogs, and business roles don't map cleanly to your ECC authorization concept. A lift-and-shift of legacy roles carries the old risk forward and breaks the moment users hit a Fiori launchpad.
A maintained risk ruleset, automated user access reviews, and firefighter logging mean audit evidence is a report, not a project. Findings close and stay closed.
We right-size roles using actual usage data (ST03N, role usage traces), so users keep what they need and lose what they never used, without a wave of access tickets.
A clear, prioritized view of true SoD conflicts and the mitigating controls that cover them, so leadership understands real exposure instead of a 40,000-line spreadsheet.
A Fiori-ready, business-role-based design that migrates cleanly to S/4HANA, so your security investment compounds instead of being thrown away at conversion.
Comprehensive services tailored to your SAP landscape
Rebuild your authorization concept from the ground up: derived/master role structures, usage-based right-sizing, and naming conventions that stay maintainable.
Define or tune a risk ruleset, analyze true conflicts, remediate or apply mitigating controls, and drive open SoD violations down to an auditable baseline.
Implement or optimize SAP GRC Access Control: Access Request Management, Business Role Management, Access Risk Analysis, and Emergency Access (firefighter).
Profile parameter review, RFC and gateway security, secure communication, SAP Security Notes, and remediation of SAP_ALL and other high-risk authorizations.
Automated periodic access certification, provisioning/deprovisioning workflows, and audit evidence that satisfies SOX, ITGC, and external auditors.
Configure SAP Enterprise Threat Detection or Cloud ALM security monitoring to surface suspicious activity, privilege misuse, and policy violations in real time.
A proven methodology refined across 100+ engagements
Baseline your current authorization concept, SoD risk, critical authorizations, and audit findings. Deliverable: a prioritized risk register and remediation roadmap.
Define the risk ruleset and the target role model. Validate business roles with process owners and agree on mitigating controls for unavoidable conflicts.
Right-size roles, rebuild composites, remediate SoD conflicts, and harden critical parameters in dev/QA with thorough regression testing before production.
Stand up GRC Access Control workflows for access requests, risk analysis, and emergency access, so new risk can't quietly creep back in.
Periodic access reviews, ruleset maintenance, and audit support keep you compliant cycle after cycle instead of remediating from scratch each year.
| Factor | SoD Remediation (Keep Roles) | Greenfield Role Redesign |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Fix conflicts in existing roles | Rebuild authorization concept from scratch |
| Timeline | 2-4 months | 4-8 months |
| Business Disruption | Lower (incremental changes) | Higher (broad re-testing) |
| End-State Risk | Reduced, but legacy structure remains | Minimal, clean least-privilege baseline |
| S/4HANA Readiness | Partial | Fully Fiori/business-role ready |
| Best For | Urgent audit findings, stable ECC | Pre-S/4HANA, heavily drifted landscapes |
A publicly traded manufacturer failed its ITGC audit with over 6,000 open Segregation of Duties conflicts, SAP_ALL assigned to multiple production users, and no documented access review process. Remediation deadlines were measured in weeks.
We implemented a tuned SoD ruleset, analyzed true vs. false conflicts, and remediated roles using actual usage data. SAP_ALL was removed from production and replaced with controlled firefighter access via GRC. We stood up automated quarterly access reviews and documented mitigating controls for the residual conflicts.
“We went from dreading audit season to treating it as a report we run. The team rebuilt our roles without drowning us in access tickets.”
— Director of IT Compliance, Manufacturing
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