ProfileTailor: Dynamics
| Simplifying SAP Application Security Management with ProfileTailor: Dynamics |
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As any experienced SAP security consultant is aware, customers need a proactive, dynamic toolset that helps them adjust their security requirements to meet their business needs, and manages by exception rather than observation. At some customers consultants have developed ABAPs that went part of the way, but often there was never enough budget or time to capture it all. There is now a solution that ticks all of the boxes that customers commonly need, and then some.. The product is called ProfileTailor: Dynamics and it just now coming into the Australia and New Zealand markets. It is an SAP-certified product developed by Xpandion a PFCG Consulting partner.ProfileTailor: Dynamics helps to manage your SAP application security by focusing on user behavior rather than simply specifying rules. It is dynamic and proactive so that you can adjust your role design over time. The solution is an adaptive intelligent system that continuously monitors the organization activities of SAP systems, and tests the actions carried out on those systems by the users.ProfileTailor: Dynamics tests and reports on all user activities, generates alarms about use of critical action, recommends permissions appropriate to users and tests for cross-process exceptions in access to information. Continuous use enables granting of user permissions based on actual usage profiles.The alerting feature of ProfileTailor: Dynamics allows the Information Security manager or data owners can react immediately when an SAP system user performs an action that is not part of their normal activities, allowing for proactive management.The solution reduces the time SAP administrators spend on running manual reports an can greatly reduce the time and disruption of preparing for your audits, with a set of built in reports that can be automated and exported. It detects unused authorizations and monitors sensitive transactions like SE16 or any user defined transaction.ProfileTailor: Dynamics alerts key stakeholders on usage that goes beyond the user’s daily usage or the desirable usage, access to critical zones, tracking operations on sensitive objects, dangerous changes in user’s authorizations. ProfileTailor: Dynamics minimizes future purchasing of new licenses and potentially reduces SAP annual license costs by more than 15%. It detects idle or unused licenses, of users who are hardly active. |