How to Secure Your IT Infrastructure And Save Money!
In today's competitive enterprise privacy and security are paramount. But the IT infrastructure has become extremely complicated and it is more difficult than ever to track irresponsible usage, security threats, unauthorized access, etc.
Corporations spend billions on IT every year, and the prospect of losing information, industrial espionage, internal sabotage, etc. is too expensive and disruptive to ignore. According with recent studies, 84% of the IT economic loss in the United States is caused by internal use in the organization (20% due to dishonest employees).
It is important to refresh security procedures to every employee regularly; the US Federal Government requires every worker with computer access to pass a 30 min. online security course every year. Just remembering to lock your system when you are away from your desk, even just to refill your coffee mug, can save your company millions if somebody decides to upload a Trojan file from your computer, it only takes seconds with a flash drive.
In a SAP environment, the SAP Authorization Concept protects the system against unauthorized access and it is key to the system security. The main difference with other systems with SAP in order for an user to have a specific role or authorization, it has to be given to him.
The problem comes when those roles or authorizations are no longer needed. Since multiple authorizations should be given to an user to perform certain task, it its difficult to manage those once they are integrated in the SAP user profile. Managing those roles after they are integrated is complicated and time consuming.
Several tools can be used for that, some more complicated than others, I found ProfileTailor™ Dynamics from Xpandion as one of the best solutions in the market. Xpandion is a Consulting and Software firm from Israel founded by experts in SAP consulting and security.
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