{"id":11439,"date":"2017-01-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zapliance.com\/?p=11439"},"modified":"2022-08-26T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:15:53","slug":"what-no-one-tells-you-about-automatic-analytics-of-sap-access-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zapliance.com\/en\/blog\/what-no-one-tells-you-about-automatic-analytics-of-sap-access-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"What no one tells you about automatic analytics of SAP access protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This blog post is about three interesting data indicators, that are analyzing your SAP access protection. Of course, this often involves the authorization system in SAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 4 of the series: \u201cThe digital Audit for Cross Process Weaknesses\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. How the digital audit for cross process weaknesses works<\/a>
2. Smart strategies to automatically audit master data and payments<\/a>
3. Quick Guide: Auditing principles of orderly bookkeeping<\/a>
4. What no one tells you about automatic analytics of SAP access protection<\/strong>
5. 3 top indicators for auditing process plausibility<\/a>
6. A complete guide to Professional Judgement\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before you proceed reading on the details of the indicators, I would recommend you read the conc<\/a>e<\/a>pt of indicators<\/a> first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three Top Indicators for SAP access protection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every indicator is associated with a process, a process area, an audit objective and a risk respectively. In the following, three selected indicators in the area of SAP access protection are presented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In total, I have developed and implemented 20 indicators for the area of cross processes. You can download the details about all cross process indicators here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Download<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Operations done by super users<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This indicator aims at identifying restricted access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is the risk of fraudulent activities, because one user could perform two critical transactions due to comprehensive access rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The criteria for this indicator is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The document was marked because it was performed by a user possessing standard SAP privileged access rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A single user did the complete business process<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This indicator aims at identifying restricted access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a high fraud risk if the entire sequence is done by one individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The criteria for this indicator is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All documents of a sequence that have been done completely by the same user are marked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Documents without users<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This indicator aims at identifying compliance and correctness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is the risk that a transaction cannot be traced back to a user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The criteria for this indicator is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The document was marked because the user field is empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blog post is about three interesting data indicators, that are analyzing your SAP access protection. Of course, this often involves the authorization system in SAP. Part 4 of the series: \u201cThe digital Audit for Cross Process Weaknesses\u201d 1. How the digital audit for cross process weaknesses works2. Smart strategies to automatically audit master data and payments3. Quick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-audit","category-en-compliance","category-en-finance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat no one tells you about automatic analytics of SAP access protection - zapliance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/zapliance.com\/en\/blog\/what-no-one-tells-you-about-automatic-analytics-of-sap-access-protection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What no one tells you about automatic analytics of SAP access protection - zapliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This blog post is about three interesting data indicators, that are analyzing your SAP access protection. 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