Access Certification Manager

Significantly reduce audit preparation costs, administrative burden and staff frustration with an automated solution for periodic user access reviews and role certification reviews.

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Key Benefits

Comprehensive Reporting on Excessive Access in SAP

With ControlPanelGRC Access Certification Manager's comprehensive reports, approvers have all the information they need to confidently make critical decisions on whether to approve or revoke access rights to users and/or roles.

Review user access
Review role assignment
Review recent changes to users and roles
Review when transaction or roles were last used to assess whether they are underutilized through integration with Usage Analyzer
Review segregation of duties risks and relevant mitigating controls through integration to Risk Analyzer

Highly Configurable

Access Certification Manager can be easily configured to match your business approval processes. Choose only the reports and information relevant to your data owners and ensure the reports are generated and pushed to the right user and/or role owners for comprehensive review and certification.

Intuitive Interface

Access Certification Manager is designed to help nontechnical approvers to quickly and easily complete the periodic user access review process.

Reports include easy-to-understand English descriptions of transactions, segregation of duties or excessive access risks.
Comments and notes can be added to assist approvers managing future user certifications.
The certification workflow provides approvers with instructions on how to execute each step of the process.

Electronic Audit Trail

The configurable workflow built into Access Certification Manager allows you to do away with paper-based audit trails. Access Certification Manager automatically notifies approvers of new reports and ensures the date and approval is tracked with electronic signoff. This approval, along with any related change requests, is captured in the documented workflow and stored for future audit purposes.

Initiate Security Changes Within Access Certification Reports

Integration with ControlPanelGRC User & Role Manager provides approvers with the infrastructure to easily initiate security changes from within the certification report. This speeds risk mitigation and helps organizations maintain tighter controls.

Simplify and Accelerate the Periodic Review Cycle

The Access Certification Manager workflow speeds the periodic user access review cycle by automating the reporting process. The system also facilitates signoff by providing plain English reports and step by step instructions that help simplify the access certification process for non-technical approvers.

Improve Controls

Excessive access within an SAP environment exposes organizations to an increased risk of fraud and human error. For these reasons external auditors require that organizations periodically certify that a user's access to SAP is appropriate based on their job function. Periodic user access and role certification with ControlPanelGRC Access Certification Manager is the most effective way to identify and mitigate the risk of excessive access within your SAP environment.

Reduce Audit Preparation Time and Cost

Manually generating the required reports detailing current user access, pushing the reports to the appropriate manager, and collecting approvals is an extremely hard and time consuming process. By automating this process by maintaining a state of continuous audit readiness ControlPanelGRC Access Certification Manager allows organizations to quickly provide auditors with easily accessible electronic reports. This significantly reduces audit preparation costs, administrative burden and staff frustration.

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