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SAP Connector Landscape
- Phillip Hanegan
EmpowerID offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to enhance security and streamline processes within SAP environments. These solutions integrate seamlessly with SAP systems, addressing key areas of identity lifecycle management, Zero Trust security, emergency access management, role design and optimization, and compliant risk management. By leveraging automation, policy-based controls, and advanced security models, EmpowerID's SAP Connector Landscape provides organizations with robust tools to manage user identities, access privileges, and security risks effectively. The following sections detail the specific functionalities and benefits of each solution within this landscape.
SAP Identity Lifecycle Management
EmpowerID's SAP Identity Lifecycle solution enhances account provisioning and access management in SAP through automation. This solution addresses security concerns and reduces errors associated with manual user account creation and role/profile assignment by implementing a policy-driven approach called "Compliant Access." Lifecycle events, such as user creation, can be triggered manually via workflows or automatically detected from HR system changes, including SuccessFactors. EmpowerID streamlines both provisioning and deprovisioning across the SAP environment. Its policy framework ensures a seamless handover of responsibilities and data ownership during user deprovisioning.
SAP Zero Trust Delegated Administration
In the realm of Zero Trust security, organizations often encounter challenges with the diverse roles and security models present in traditional ABAP-based systems, SAP HANA, and other SAP modules. Zero Trust principles emphasize avoiding permanent, unproxied access to systems to minimize monitoring challenges and attack risks. EmpowerID addresses these challenges by implementing a unified security model across all SAP systems. This approach enables organizations to delegate administrative privileges in a granular manner, suitable for business units or partner organizations. This granularity is particularly beneficial in complex global organizations and multi-tenancy scenarios, allowing for controlled access to objects, identities, and task execution without assigning full administrative rights, even in SAP modules that traditionally do not support such detailed access control.
SAP Firefighter and Emergency Access Management
Enhancing SAP's Zero Trust strategy, EmpowerID introduces advanced firefighter management capabilities for S/4HANA. This feature allows users to request temporary emergency access, known as firefighter access, which is added to their existing SAP accounts. These requests can either be pre-approved or undergo an approval process, with comprehensive status tracking available through an intuitive user interface. This method streamlines privileged account password management and improves the correlation of user activities, thereby enhancing both security and operational efficiency.
SAP Role Design and Optimization
EmpowerID is instrumental in establishing and maintaining compliant access within SAP environments. It integrates SAP role and TCode level access with organizational data from HR and IGA systems to define appropriate access levels for employees, partners, and customers. This integration is crucial for ensuring compliance with organizational risk policies. EmpowerID's role optimization feature is essential for managing SAP roles, ensuring the implementation of the principle of least privilege, particularly in dynamic business contexts like reorganizations, mergers, and acquisitions. Additionally, EmpowerID facilitates segregation of duties (SOD) simulations during role design to ensure that new roles do not introduce SOD conflicts.
SAP Compliant Risk Management
In the pursuit of providing Compliant Access, organizations aim to align access privileges with position requirements while adhering to business risk policies. Compliant Access, underpinned by a Zero Trust framework, involves using risk policies to evaluate if granting the least privilege level might lead to unacceptable risks. This evaluation allows risk control owners to make informed decisions about accepting risks with mitigating controls or rejecting them outright. EmpowerID's risk management engine supports both preventive and detective measures for SOD simulation and validation. It offers user-friendly dashboards and workflow processes that automate the remediation and revocation of access, thereby ensuring ongoing compliance and security.
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