Practical Guide to Auditing SAP Systems
Practical Guide to Auditing SAP Systems

Author: Martin Metz

Publisher: Espresso Tutorials GmbH

Published: 2019-04-05

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 3960129653

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What do I need to do to successfully complete an SAP system audit? Get expert guidance on the top 12 controls that should be included in your audit activities, including accounts and authorizations, the changeability settings of tables, clients, and entire systems, change logs, and security configuration settings. Written with SAP administrators and security consultants in mind, this book expertly answers these questions and explores the techniques needed to quickly determine the high-level security status of an SAP system. Walk through a standard control framework you can use to improve and strengthen the security position of your SAP system. Get an overview of the impact of SAP HANA, mobile, and cloud on SAP audits. - Basic principles of the audit function - Common SAP system audit issues - SAP tools and functionality auditors can use, including pre-defined reports - Top 12 controls that should be included in your audit activities

A Practical Guide to Cybersecurity in SAP
A Practical Guide to Cybersecurity in SAP

Author: Julie Hallett

Publisher: Espresso Tutorials GmbH

Published: 2021-02-04

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 3960125372

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SAP environments are internally integrated with, and through, cloud and hybrid cloud solutions. This interconnection, both within and external to the firewall, creates a level of vulnerability that, if exploited, could compromise a company’s intellectual property, employee and supplier information, and trade secrets. This book breaks down the application of cybersecurity, as it applies to SAP, into actionable items that can be communicated and implemented into existing security frameworks. You will understand why cybersecurity applies to SAP, how it integrates with cybersecurity Initiatives within an organization, and how to implement a security framework within SAP. This expertly written guide provides a targeted cybersecurity education for SAP managers, architects, and security practitioners. The author explores the technical aspects of implementing cybersecurity policies and procedures using existing tools and available SAP modules. Readers will gain a solid understanding of what a cybersecurity program does, what security frameworks are used for, how to assess and understand risk, and how to apply mitigating controls. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, this book covers: - Cyber risk in the SAP landscape - How to harden security - Cybersecurity risk management programs in SA - Risk mitigation for threats

Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part 1: SPL Screening and Compliance Management
Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part 1: SPL Screening and Compliance Management

Author: Kevin Riddell

Publisher: Espresso Tutorials GmbH

Published: 2023-07-28

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 3960122268

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SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) helps companies maximize supply chain performance and reduces the overall cost and risk of global trade by ensuring regulatory compliance, accelerating trade activity, and enabling trade compliance automation. This updated 2nd edition to Practical Guide to SAP GTS helps the user navigate the system, while offering compliance insight to maximize their return on investment. Dive into difficult-to-navigate menus and review available functionality. Using screenshots and detailed instructions, readers will obtain best practices for meeting and exceeding compliance standards. Includes suggested audit plans to sustain long term compliance. The book is current to version SAP GTS for HANA GTS e4H and explores GTS Version for HANA and its new features in detail. In addition, includes information on the new Fiori-based Apps and UX developments, new features, and process improvements. This book covers:

  • Tips and tricks for leveraging SAP GTS to automate trade compliance
  • Overview of regulatory requirements and compliance suggestions
  • Step-by-step walkthrough of business processes
  • Review of SAP GTS for HANA GTS e4H with screenshots

A Practical Guide to Cybersecurity Governance for SAP
A Practical Guide to Cybersecurity Governance for SAP

Author: Juliet Hallett

Publisher: Espresso Tutorials GmbH

Published: 2023-11-24

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 3960122624

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There is a lot of misunderstanding about how to apply cybersecurity principles to SAP software. Management expects that the SAP security team is prepared to implement a full cybersecurity project to integrate SAP software into a new or existing company cybersecurity program. It’s not that simple. This book provides a practical entry point to cybersecurity governance that is easy for an SAP team to understand and use. It breaks the complex subject of SAP cybersecurity governance down into simplified language, accelerating your efforts by drawing direct correlation to the work already done for financial audit compliance. Build a practical framework for creating a cyber risk ruleset in SAP GRC 12.0, including SOX, CMMC, and NIST controls. Learn how to plan a project to implement a cyber framework for your SAP landscape. Explore controls and how to create control statements, plan of action and milestone (POA&M) statements for remediating deficiencies, and how to document con- trols that are not applicable. The best controls in the world will not lead to a successful audit without the evidence to back them up. Learn about evidence management best practices, including evidence requirements, how reviews should be conducted, who should sign off on review evidence, and how this evidence should be retained. - Introduction to cybersecurity framework compliance for SAP software - SAP-centric deep dive into controls - How to create a cyber risk ruleset in SAP GRC - Implementing a cyber framework for your SAP landscape

Access Risk Management in SAP
Access Risk Management in SAP

Author: Bianca Folkerts

Publisher: Espresso Tutorials GmbH

Published: 2023-05-16

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 3960122012

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Do you need expert guidance on how to plan, implement, and run access analyses? This book takes a practical approach to customer-specific SAP rulesets for compliance managers, GRC teams, identity and access management teams, as well as administrators running these systems. Identify types of risk and the tools available. Take a look at use cases and tools for risk analysis and explore how to optimize processes, quality of authorization roles and concepts, transparency of access rights to data, and functions for data and process owners. Explore key considerations for evaluating a tool for hosting a using a risk catalog. Take a look at limitations of risk catalogs and learn more about a methodology for customizing standard access to the risk catalog. Find out why the authors recommend starting with a small access risk catalog before move onto more complex landscapes. Take away best practices for bringing end users up to speed. - Considerations for hosting and using a risk catalog - Limitations of risk catalogs - methodology for customizing standard access - Risk handing process

Integrated Auditing of ERP Systems
Integrated Auditing of ERP Systems

Author: Yusufali F. Musaji

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2003-02-03

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0471447803

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Maps out how to conduct an integrated ERP audit. Contains sample audit control guidelines, case studies, and audit plans to help the reader understand difficult concepts and get started with their own audit.

Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part 2: Preference and Customs Management
Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part 2: Preference and Customs Management

Author: Kevin Riddell

Publisher: Espresso Tutorials GmbH

Published:

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13:

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SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) helps companies maximize supply chain performance and reduces the overall cost and risk of global trade by ensuring regulatory compliance, accelerating trade activity, and enabling trade compliance automation. The Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part II dives into customs management and preference processing. Explore how to leverage self-filing, using a broker model, and adopting a free trade agreement to improve ROI. The book is current to version 10.1 and explores version 11.0 and its new features including Fiori apps and UX. - Best practices for leveraging SAP GTS for trade compliance - Fundamentals of preference implementation and system set up - How self-filing, broker models and free trade agreements can improve ROI - Review of Version 11.0 with screenshots

A Practical Guide to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
A Practical Guide to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Author: Klaus-Peter Sauer

Publisher: Espresso Tutorials GmbH

Published: 2022-07-28

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 3960121261

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Learn about the advantages of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC): from data management all the way through to visualization, this book covers all the tools you need to set up a modern, cloud-based data warehouse landscape. You can even set up hybrid architectures or convert on-premise SAP BW systems to the SAP BW Bridge. Operating departments will learn how they can use virtual work areas (spaces) to enrich central corporate data with local data without having to copy data or download files. New findings can be easily shared with others. For IT employees in particular, there is an extensive introduction to modeling and the Data Builder. With the editors and functionalities of this tool, you get to know the technical implementation of data modeling in more detail. In addition, the Business Builder offers professional users a simplified analysis of data by reducing the time required for semantic modeling and enrichment of data. After discussing important aspects of the configuration and security of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, the author looks at the developments that can be expected for this highly dynamic topic in the future. - Basic principles of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud - Virtual interaction between operating departments and IT via spaces - Separation of semantic modeling and the data layer - SAP BW Bridge and Hybrid landscapes