SAP System Security & Authorizations Advanced Training

Understand how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) governs security and audits for US public limited companies, detailing production access approvals, segregation of duties, and GRC-driven risk management with audit evidence.

Explore SAP user administration with SU01 and SU10, including central administration. Learn how GRC automates access requests, approvals, provisioning, and initial password handling across default clients 01 and 66.

Understand default SAP system clients, their roles, and the golden reference client. Learn about client data types, and local and remote client copy and cross-client changes.

Explore how to set up users in SAP security, covering single-user creation (transaction code 01), multi-user administration (10), central user administration, and GRC-driven provisioning with initial password delivery.

Explore how to manage SAP user master records, including creating, copying, locking, and password management, with client-specific log on data, alias IDs, and dialog user types.

Navigate the user master record’s address, defaults, and parameters tabs, configure log on data with alias, and maintain personal, company, and communication data with mandatory last name and user rating.

Explore dialog user type, one of five SAP user types (dialog, system, communication, service, and reference), its default for individual logons, and password policy and single-login constraints.

Schedule background jobs with a system user type using transaction 36 to automate payments, and define variants, start conditions, and monitoring with 37 for cross-system communication via remote function call.

Understand how the communication user type enables central administration by linking a central system with child systems and pushing changes, with the system user type as an alternative.

Service user type enables firefighter access with a non expiring password; only one user logs in at a time, and password resets require security admin, with training use in non-production.

Explore the reference user type as a workaround when the user buffer is full, enabling additional authorizations through mapping a reference user to the dialogue.

use the logon data type user group to categorize users by department. create and map groups; view membership via the group_user table; remember this cannot be transported between instances.

Explain logon data validity by showing that unspecified validity defaults to infinite; permanent employees require no validity, contractors require explicit validity for 1–2 years; password remains the mandatory field.

Learn how to manage user defaults in SAP, including logon language, decimal notation for currency, format, and time zone, and explore optional settings and how GRC can automate their assignment.

Learn how parameters populate fields with default values by maintaining a parameter id and value, enabling auto-populated fields in sales orders, with collaboration among functional, development, and security teams.

Assign roles to users based on job descriptions and apply default roles such as issue three and display access, with infinite validity adjustable for use introduced in sec 4.6 c.

Discover how system generated profiles are automatically assigned with roles, and how profiles define the authorizations users receive; avoid standard profiles in production due to audit concerns.

Maintain multiple user groups by placing the primary group in the login data tab and secondary or tertiary groups in the group step, a rare but supported option.

Explore the personalization tab in SAP system security and authorizations. Understand why standard personalization objects remain unused and why we do not add or remove items for personal-related settings.

Manage license data and license types, understand purchasing from SFP based on user counts and types, and configure SNC for consultant access to bypass login prompts.

Create and manage SAP user accounts by assigning IDs from Active Directory, setting or auto-generating passwords, and applying lock, unlock, and copy operations, with attention to single sign-on and roles.

Set up a user with a reference ID by copying authorizations, clarify reference user type, assign roles, and set an initial password, including model users in GRC/ACP.

Learn the SAP process to terminate a dialog user: move to an expired group, remove all roles, update the user master record validity to the current date, and log initials.

Learn to build a cross-table report with sqvi by joining two tables on address number and personal number, selecting input and output fields, exporting results, and saving reusable queries.

Configure profile parameters that govern system behavior, distinguishing static (requires restart) from dynamic (no restart) settings, with examples for login and password policies.

Track who created or changed a user and when using change documents in the user information screen and security reports; view historical changes with date filters for audits.

Discover mass user administration in SAP: use a dedicated transaction to mass lock during planned downtime and unlock afterward, and avoid mass creation and resets due to per-user password generation.

Explore central user administration in SAP to securely manage user master records from a single central system, configuring logical systems, destinations, models, and cross-system role distribution.

Learn how SAP authorization uses object classes and fields to define roles and profiles, and how these are assigned to users via direct or indirect role assignments.

Examine types of SAP roles: single, composite, and derived, and how to create them. Learn how composite and data roles reduce administration, with master role inheritance, authorization, and organizational values.

Learn how to transport SAP security roles across landscapes, manage master and composite roles, enable deletion with transport requests, and use export mode for authorization data.

Troubleshoot SAP authorization issues by validating login, verifying role activation, and ensuring transaction access across application servers, using traces and exclusive authorization tools to identify missing authorizations.