SAP Security, Roles and Authorisation Governance

Course Category : Risk Management

An advanced programme for governing SAP security, roles, and authorisations through effective access control, segregation of duties, compliance oversight, and structured accountability.
Duration: 5 Days | Level: Advanced

Introduction

As SAP environments become increasingly integrated across financial, operational, and administrative processes, effective authorisation governance has become a critical component of enterprise control. Access management now extends beyond technical user administration to encompass risk management, compliance, accountability, and internal control.
This course examines advanced SAP security principles, role and authorisation design, access lifecycle governance, segregation of duties, privileged access oversight, and exception management. It establishes a governance-oriented perspective that aligns business requirements with security responsibilities and supports controlled, auditable, and sustainable SAP environments..

Targeted Audience

SAP Security Managers and Specialists
SAP Role and Authorisation Administrators
IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance Managers
Identity and Access Management Professionals
Internal and IT Auditors
Internal Control and Segregation of Duties Specialists
SAP Basis and Technical Security Professionals
Business Process Owners involved in SAP access approvals

Targeted Skills

SAP Security and Authorisation Architecture Analysis
Business-Aligned Role Design and Management
Least-Privilege and Need-to-Know Principles
Segregation of Duties Risk Analysis
User and Access Lifecycle Governance
Sensitive and Privileged Access Governance
Security and Control Effectiveness Assessment
Access Review and Approval Policy Development

Expected Outcomes

Explain the principal components of the SAP security and authorisation model.
Evaluate role designs against business functions and organisational responsibilities.
Identify and classify access conflicts and segregation-of-duties risks.
Establish appropriate controls for sensitive, privileged, and exceptional access.
Design governance for requesting, approving, modifying, and revoking SAP access.
Assess periodic access review and recertification mechanisms.
Align SAP authorisation management with audit, compliance, and internal control requirements.
Develop governance practices and indicators supporting continuous access-security improvement.

Training Topics Index

Core components of SAP security and access control
Relationships between users, roles, profiles, and authorisation objects
Least privilege, need-to-know, and job-based access principles
Responsibilities across IT, security, and business process ownership
Control risks arising from excessive or unmanaged authorisations

Principles for designing single and composite roles
Alignment of roles with business processes and organisational responsibilities
Authorisation objects, organisational values, and access levels
Governance of role creation, modification, testing, and approval
Prevention of role proliferation, duplication, and access accumulation

Segregation of Duties concepts within SAP environments
Identification of conflicting functions and authorisations
Access-risk classification by impact and likelihood
Compensating controls, exceptions, and approval governance
Governance of sensitive, critical, and privileged access

Governance of user access requests, provisioning, modification, and revocation
Joiner, mover, and leaver access controls
Periodic access reviews and user-access recertification
Privileged and technical account governance
Audit evidence, documentation, traceability, and compliance requirements

Role and authorisation governance structures and ownership
Enterprise access-management policies and standards
Security-related key risk and performance indicators
Management of control findings and authorisation deficiencies
Developing an SAP security governance maturity roadmap

Course Features

Updated and Interactive Content
Hypothetical Examples and Case Studies
Pre- and Post-assessments to Measure Impact
Verified Certificate with a QR Verification Code

SAP Security, Roles and Authorisation Governance