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Protect Business-Critical SAP Data with NextLabs Data-Centric Security
NextLabs Application Enforcer for SAP provides granular access control and data governance for SAP applications. Through NextLabs’ patented Dynamic Authroization platform, organizations can leverage attribute-based access control (ABAC) and centralized policy management to improve their security and compliance posture for SAP.
Each enforcer extends the native authorization model of the SAP application it protects, allowing customers to protect data and address compliance requirements at the same time. Controls include:
- Transaction- and data-level access management across SAP applications
- Data-level classification that policies reference dynamically
- Information barriers that segregate regulated data or confidential projects to avoid data spills or contamination
- Separation between the records a user may view and the subset they may create, edit, or delete
- Segregation of duties enforced in real time
Why Use Application Enforcer for SAP?
Automate Regulatory and IP Compliance – Classifications determine the applicable license restrictions and IP obligations, supporting regulations such as GDPR, ITAR/EAR, and SOX.
Secure Supplier Collaboration – Cross-organization project teams spanning several continents share road maps, product designs, and inventory forecasts, while each user sees only the records to which they have been granted access.
Consolidate SAP Instances to Reduce Costs – Attribute-driven dynamic authorization eliminates the need to maintain multiple SAP instances or manage individual authorization or user groups.
Eliminate Costly Customization – Existing approaches to data-level control in SAP are either difficult to maintain or require costly custom development; a flexible policy system addresses compliance requirements quickly, with the lowest total cost of ownership.
Improve Business Agility – Authorization logic is managed through an externalized, standards-based policy framework, slashing application development time and automating change management processes.
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SAP Enforcer
The out-of-the-box, SAP-endorsed core of the product line, integrated natively with SAP ERP, S/4HANA, Fiori, CRM, SAP ERP HCM, DMS, and the Collaboration Folders application, and extensible to custom applications through a framework of API calls for Z Programs.
SAP PLM Enforcer
Extends SAP Access Control Contexts (ACCs) to provide fine-grained access control for PLM business objects such as Materials, Documents, BOMs, and Change Masters, protecting product data across the product lifecycle.
SAP EWM Enforcer
Extends SAP roles to provide fine-grained access control for EWM business objects such as Inbound Deliveries, Outbound Deliveries, Goods Receipts, and Inspection Documents, protecting essential data across the entire supply chain.
SAP APO Enforcer
Secures the supply chain planning ecosystem, extending SAP roles to control and protect essential data as planning reaches across many organizations that can span several continents.
SAP Business Warehouse Enforcer
Applies data and field-level controls to SAP BW objects, protecting Bex Info Objects, Info Providers, Info Areas, and custom fields so that irrelevant, restricted, or sensitive data is automatically filtered out of reports, blocked from view, and/or blocked from export.
Public Sector Solution Module Enforcer
An add-on to SAP Dynamic Authorization Management that extends fine-grained access controls to fund centers, ensuring that only authorized users can access funds center data, segregating data within transactions, and logging each successful and unsuccessful access attempt.
Common Capabilities Across SAP Applications
- Attribute-based access control – Policies examine attributes of the data being accessed, the context of the request, and the user’s identity, and take changes in those attributes into account automatically.
- Security classification – A Security Classification Module simplifies the process of identifying and maintaining classification values, which policies then reference dynamically. Classifications can be configured, extended, and managed using batch, interactive, or programmatic interfaces.
- Centralized policy management – Authorization policies are managed and reviewed centrally across an organization’s SAP applications, substantially reducing administration costs, and policy changes require no code changes or application downtime.
- Identity and attribute integration – User attributes such as citizenship, company, project team, or geographical location are leveraged from existing sources, including SAP Central User Administration (CUA), Identity Management, Human Capital Management (HCM), and other third-party identity management providers or directory servers.
- Centralized audit and monitoring – User activity and data access are tracked and stored centrally, simplifying compliance management, with analytics on user behavior and access patterns delivered through dashboards, reports, and automated monitoring.
Deploy Across the Complex SAP Environment
Whichever SAP applications your organization runs on, NextLabs Application Enforcer applies a consistent, attribute-driven layer of access control and data governance across them, protecting business-critical data in real time while keeping authorization logic out of application code.
