SAP Security/GRC Team Lead in Information Technology at Perfetti Van Melle (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use if for general access management, privileged access management and access risk analysis.
SAP Access Control helps us to ensure that no accesses are provisioned without the due approvals and prevents/identifies which SoD risks are currently assigned to users.
Regardind Privileged Access Management, we use it to have detailed reports about usage details.

Pros

Access Provisioning
Access Risk Analysis
Privileged Access Management

Cons

Movers/Leavers management
Approvers/Owners review
Access Management for SAP Cloud solutions without additional middlewares
Access management for non-SAP solutions

Return on Investment

Centralized maintenance
Rework reduction
Risk reduction

Other Software Used

SAP Process Control, 4me.com

Varun Vankam

Engineering Technician in Research & Development at Autodesk (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP Access Control for automatic user provisioning and ensure access to terminated employees is no longer available. We have it integrated with Service now to reduce the manual effort for the creation of users and also to prevent fraudulent access to SAP applications integrated via SAP Access control.

Pros

Provisioning user access
Automatic role management of users
Analyze enterprise-wide risk

Cons

Integration with third parties
Composite role risk assessment
Better interface for fire fighter access provisioning

Most Important Features

Provisioning users
Certify authorizations
Monitoring of privileges

Return on Investment

Extremely positive impact by reduction of manual user provisioning
Cannot quantify the ROI made but definitely has a positive impact
Addition of business value by reduction of human effort and turnaround time for requests

Alternatives Considered

SAP Business Technology Platform

Other Software Used

SAP Business Technology Platform, OpenText Content Suite Platform, OpenText AppWorks

Jayakrishna Moola View profile

Lead Analyst in Information Technology at National Grid (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using SAP access control for 8 plus years with a lot of automation which is adopted for hr integration hr triggers, automation of workflows for provisioning of access.

Pros

Workflow based provisioning process.
Hr trigger automation and integration with hr.
Risk analysis of sod risks is inherent in workflows which makes it a good product.

Cons

Firefighter log review logs should be made more detailed and the extent of log depth is limited.
Product integration into cloud products is limited even with iag integration as it does not have firefighter functionality for some cloud products like S4.

Most Important Features

Hr triggers
Elevated access or previlege access management
Risk analysis integration

Return on Investment

Handling 17k users by just 4 full-time and 4 part-time resources is only possible because of SAP ac.
Risk mitigation has helped the company have clean audit cycles year after year.
Firefighter procedure help in manga shock requirements.
Quick adoption of new business scenarios for roles and having workflow setup for business scenarios are made possible.

Matt Saunders View profile

Bank Accountant in Finance and Accounting at Huntington National Bank (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Access Control is a key application at Huntington National Bank, which is used across all the departments. Implementation of this software was carried out late last year. It gives our users opportunities to access to submit self-service, approvals and workflow access requests.

Pros

SAP Access Control ensures that our services are accessed by the right users since it send me alerts when an employee tries to access any application. That way, I am able to either authorize or cancel the request to safeguard of company data.
With SAP Access Control, it is easy to automate and monitor how our team access services and applications. SAP Access Control has an automatic feature that notifies me when employees access applications and services and the issues they are encountering.
In addition, SAP Access Control add security on employees login to ensure that their data on the applications are encrypted to never leak to cyber attackers.

Cons

It’s clear that SAP Access Control has robust features that safeguard applications and services logins for our employees. However, it can be hectic during initial setup to fully customize them.
Kudos to the vendor support team they streamlined customization by offering documentation and inviting us to join webinars when there is new feature update.

Most Important Features

Automated reports: With this capability, it is easy for me to track login behavior of clients on company applications.
Backend integration: This set of feature enables me to connect SAP Access Control with SAP applications like SAP HANA to integrate data freely, other external applications and APIs
Embedded security feature: This is another vital capability that ensures data is encrypted by sending alerts to managers whenever there is an attempt of company applications and services login.

Return on Investment

Eradication of data breaches to third-party users by securing employees logins.
Integration with external services such as SAP HANA and IBM Datacap allows us to enjoy more capabilities such as data cleansing without having to keep logging out of the application. That help business users save time thus improving productivity.
Vendor customer success helped us to reduce operational costs by offering free support on implementation, customization and integration.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) and Cisco NAC Manager and Server

Other Software Used

Workday Human Capital Management, FinancialForce Accounting, SAP HANA

Edward McCallister

CITO (Chief Information Technology Officer) in Information Technology at GAL Real Estate (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

I love the highly automated way SAP Access Control has to monitor my employees' access to any of the platforms we use at our company. SAP Access Control has an automatic monitoring which is able to tell me exactly the gaps in the login, what problems the employees are having during the login and also gives me an instant solution to the problem. This function is very important, it detects gaps in a matter of seconds without having to do anything at all.
SAP Access Control adds much more streamlined security for all my employees' login. All keys are encrypted and have an encryption code that is impossible to break. Adding additional security to my employees 'logins is extremely important, it maintains job security and allows my employees business data to be kept secure at all times.
Every time my employees try to access a platform that we use in our company, an alert will be sent to my SAP Access Control interface, in order to authorize the login. This feature is amazing, as it adds as a second-pass authorization to be able to maintain a comprehensive login and to be successful in data protection.

Cons

I wish SAP Access Control had greater ease when using this platform for the first time. It is true that the SAP Access Control functions are very effective and do not have any type of errors during their application to control the login, but learning how to use the functions is quite a challenge, since it is somewhat complicated . I hope that SAP Access Control integrates new manuals or courses to learn how to use the platform.

Most Important Features

Access requests, as it allows me to authorize anyone who wants to enter our business system.
Automated reports from SAP Access Control allow me to see user login behavior in recent days.
It has a very good integration with the SAP Hana service (we currently use SAP Hana in our company).

Return on Investment

My employee login has become exponentially much more secure, no worries of data breaches.
We have found risks in the login and within the business activity of our employees, thanks to this platform it is easier to detect the data gap.
Its integration with the SAP Hana system has helped us add additional details of troubleshooting and login satisfaction to our activity reports generated in SAP Hana.

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