Overcome Segregation of Duties Challenges with Next-Gen Technology
Segregation of Duties (SoD) is critical to ensuring the integrity of your financial data and business processes. However, this can be challenging as organizations must manage SoD across hundreds of roles and transactions. SoD is already challenging from a governance perspective. And the rigid, role-based access controls native to ERP applications add further difficulties.
As the burden of SoD compliance grows, organizations must look towards technology to help them automate tedious manual processes and reinforce internal controls. Moving to a data-centric approach, beyond roles and transactions, can help streamline the segregation of duties by enabling dynamic authorizations and delivering actionable, fine-grained visibility.
Limitations of the Legacy Approach to Segregation of Duties
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Limited Visibility
ERP audit logs show transaction activity but lack the data-level granularity to identify and filter
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Static Security Controls
SoD policies are primarily applied through static, role-based access controls. These all-or-nothing
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SoD Exceptions Overhead
Once an SoD exception is granted, existing role-based access controls are no longer effective at preventing
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Inefficient Audit Processes
Existing audit preparation and reporting are manually intensive processes that deliver an outdated
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Unaddressed Risk
Due to resource-intensive audit processes, most organizations can only review a fraction of their
Appsian Enhances Existing RBAC with Attribute-Based Access Controls
Strategies for Improving Segregation of Duties Management
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Modernize SoD Controls
SAP customers can modernize their Segregation of Duties controls using a combination of preventative, attribute-based controls and fine-grained analytics to realize efficiencies and minimize risk
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Data-Centric SoD Policies
Appsian Security Platform uses a data-centric approach to enforce SoD controls. Leveraging attribute-based access controls, customers now have a way to overcome the limitations of static, role-based rules, gaining flexibility where needed, and reinforcing controls elsewhere to ensure policies and activity are in alignment.
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Real-Time Preventive SoD Controls
Appsian adds an additional authorization layer on top of existing role-based controls that can incorporate user, data, and transaction attributes into its authorization logic. When aligned with the existing SoD policy, customers can block SoD violations at runtime – regardless of a user’s role-based privileges.
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Granular SoD Violation Reporting
Appsian360 provides visibility into SoD violations with far greater detail than possible with existing transaction-level audit logs. This data-centric logging paired with contextual information enables customers to automatically eliminate false positives, view actual SoD violations, and prioritize events based on relevant details.
