What is SAP Security ?

What is SAP Security ?

When we say security we refer to the protection, protection of an entity. The word itself explains its meaning. As the technology is changing day by day so as the threats of the technology being misused. With the advent of new measures of protection, each day a new threat is also being created. Hence it has become extremely important to tighten our security measures at each point. In case of Information Technology, Security has an important place because 24X7 an IT guy deals with sensitive information and data of the client. A loophole or the breakup in security chain may cause huge harm in your revenue and strategies, throwing you back to start the things again from scratch and build new security measures to protect the data and information. Today we will discuss about SAP Security. SAP is now most widely used ERP today. So to increase the efficiency of the software the SAP has separated Security module from Basis and enhanced the functions and utilities of SAP Security. As SAP deals with data and applications of the company , the use of this data by unauthorized person may result in big harm.
So we have to protect this access. Say for example, a person in warehouse if given the access to modify the salary of another person will result in violence of the industry laws and may result in loss for industry, or another example…if a person who is responsible for creation of purchase order is given access to approve purchase order as well , he may create and approve as many purchase order without any use. So SAP Security revolves around protecting the access of a user and restricting it to access the data and applications related to his job profile only. A warehouse worker should only be able to access the warehouse data like the stock received and stock required, a person who creates a purchase order shall not approve purchase order instead the purchase order should be approved by a higher authority person after a review. Therefore, protecting the SAP data and applications from unauthorized use and processing is called SAP Security. You are required to restrict the access of a user only to the limited activities and data he should use and process.

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