SAP Security Consultant Beginner Course
Learn how to manage Users, Roles and Profiles from scratch.
What you will learn
✔ What is SAP Security?
✔ Authorizations in SAP
✔ User creation
✔ Role creation
✔ To design a role model.
✔ Analyze authorization errors
✔ Auditing roles and users
✔ Tips and tricks
Bonus
🎨 Authorization design matrix Template
📖 SAP Authorization Handbook E-book
🧭 Cheat sheet with the most common security transactions and tables.
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5 hours on-demand video
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Lifetime access
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English
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English, Spanish
Learn SAP authorizations, roles and profiles, and become an SAP Security Consultant
This course provides an overview of SAP Security management, focusing on the essential concepts, best practices and techniques to ensure the security and integrity of SAP systems. Designed for IT professionals, security administrators and SAP consultants, this course covers a wide range of topics, including user administration, authorization concepts, role design, audit compliance and access risk management within SAP environments.
At the end of this course, participants will have acquired the skills and knowledge necessary to design, implement and manage robust security solutions for SAP systems, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of business-critical information. Whether you are new to SAP security or want to enhance your knowledge, this course will provide you with the tools and techniques you need to effectively secure your organization’s SAP environment.
Course Content
Introduction
- Introduction
- Secure Operations Map
- Information Security Principles
- IT Controls in SAP environments
- Laboratory system installation
- Basic SAP Navigation
Authorizations in SAP
- What are authorizations in SAP?
- Implementation of an authorization concept
- Structure and functioning of authorizations
User maintenance
- Introduction to user maintenance
- System profile parameters
- Forbidden passwords
- User types
- User master (SU01)
- Mass user maintenance (SU10)
- Change documents for users
Role maintenance
- Introduction to role maintenance
- Configuration of the profile generator
- Create and maintain roles (PFCG and SU24)
- Mass role maintenance (PFCGMASSVAL)
- Derived roles
- Composite roles
- Customizing roles
- Cleaning tasks
- Transporting Roles
How to design an authorization model
- Introduction to the design of authorization models
- Overview of layer-based models
- Basic end-user and display roles
- Task-based Roles vs. Job-based Roles
- Derived Roles vs. Enabler roles
- Composite Roles as Job Roles
- Naming convention
- Segregation of Duties
- Custom authorization objects
- Critical transactions and authorizations
- Critical profiles
- Bonus: SAP Authorization Design Matrix Template
Tools for authorization analysis
- Authorization error analysis (SU53)
- Authorization trace (STAUTHTRACE)
- Audit log (SM20) and Workload monitor (ST03N)
Tools for user and role analysis
- User Information System (SUIM) and standard tables
- Auditing an SAP system
Tips and tricks
- Automatic password generator
- Parameter transactions
- Bonus: Cheat sheet
Conclusion
- Bonus: E-book “SAP Authorization Handbook”.
- Thank you
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