Secure Provisioning
To meet strict regulatory requirements, a laborious process of checks and balances must take place--with the bulk of the effort falling squarely on the shoulders of the IT group and business managers. Inefficient management of access control ultimately hinders employee productivity. The wait for approvals and verifying access rights often means users are unable to utilize critical systems for days. Worse, inappropriate user access goes unchecked, exposing the organization to greater risks of fraud.
To meet these challenges, many organizations are turning to automated user provisioning for SAP solutions. Secure Provisioning (SP) is the premier automated solution for user provisioning within SAP. It makes adding, modifying or deleting users smooth and efficient while ensuring that security and compliance rules are being adhered to. SP integrates tightly with the rest of our Security Weaver suite, allowing SOD's to be analyzed prior to submitting a request for approval. All parties who need to be involved, including end users needing access, multiple approvers, and auditors/security administrators (for mitigating controls) are notified and kept involved via email workflow.
- Automate formerly manual user provisioning processes
- Provide accountability and traceability of all provisioned users
- Enable self-service functions, such as password changes and access requests
- Speed the time it takes to grant users access
Benefits for Auditors
SoD violation mitigation
If a request creates an SoD conflict, the system can automatically assign the request to a specialist and track the results.
Reporting
Each request is tracked, including its status, who approved it and any conflicts.
Benefits for Administrators
Role recertification
All users are recertified at regular intervals to ensure each user only has access to systems necessary to perform his or her current job requirements.
Self-service password resets
If a password has expired, these solutions automatically generate a new password without the need to contact IT.
Benefits for Management
Lowers administrative costs to provision users by automating key procedures
Speeds access to systems for new and existing employees by performing checks in real time
SPV America CEO Presented at Systems 2009