Risk root cause analysis, a complex yet crucial activity

To avoid that, potential risks should be identified and addressed. By regularly performing risk analyses and visualizing the risk violations within your SAP environment, companies are able to identify potential risk exposures rather than just treating symptoms afterwards. However, analyzing risk violations and identifying its root causes is no walk in the park. Find out more about Expertum’s solution below.

Root cause analysis consists of identifying what roles and/or profiles actually cause the risk violations. This is not an easy thing to do and this difficulty often prevents role administrators to define and implement remediation actions in an efficient and effective way.

Imagine for example a risk violation, caused by a multitude of assigned roles and profiles. Unearthing exactly which combinations and which parts of these roles and profiles are actually causing the risk violation is tough, especially if you have to do this manually. Yet, this information is crucial for role administrators, risk owners and role owners if they are to define corrective actions. Indeed, before you can decide if some roles or accesses need to be removed from the user or modified, you need to know exactly which ones to address.

Sounds complicated? Enter Ray, your virtual security officer! This app, developed by Expertum, helps to identify risk violations in SAP applications and visualises them in comprehensive dashboards. One of its great features is that you can easily identify the single, derived and composite roles and profiles that are causing risk violations.

Detect risk anomalies in clear dashboards

Drill down on the risk to obtain the risk details

Perform Root Cause Analysis

So, in just a few clicks, you can navigate from an overview dashboard that highlights anomalies to the deepest level of details, pinpointing the cause of a risk and providing you with all the necessary analysis information to start taking corrective actions. Well done, Ray!

P.S. Ray actually does much more, so make sure to also check out the full app solution in the SAP Store. Or find out more about Expertum’s other SAP Security and GRC services.