Accelerating Consolidation
Consolidating multiple SAP instances into a single shared environment reduces cost and inefficiency but creates a serious security problem: critical data becomes accessible to a much broader user base, and managing access through traditional role-based security leads to role explosion. NextLabs and SAP address this through dynamic authorization and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC).Â
The Solution
NextLabs Information Risk Management extends SAP’s native authorization with ABAC, incorporating attributes like nationality and location into access decisions in addition to existing roles. Authorization logic is externalized and centrally managed, data classification is automated through inheritance and association rules, and policies are enforced at the data level with full audit trails for compliance reporting.Â
Data Level Access Control Across a Global Platform
Built natively for SAP S/4HANA and ECC, the solution enforces fine-grained security across Fiori, SAP GUI, SAP Portal, Web UI, REST APIs, and mobile applications. It covers specific business objects including materials, BOMs, routings, change masters, and CAD documents, combining existing SAP roles with additional attributes for dynamic access decisions. Data classification is automated by association, inheritance, or storage location, and rights protection can extend to data exported out of SAP for end-to-end control.Â
Solution Deployment
NextLabs guides clients through implementation using a structured methodology, assisting with identifying and classifying critical SAP data and defining policies that automate compliance across regional jurisdictions.Â
Greater Visibility, Better Security
The solution accelerates consolidation by removing security bottlenecks, eliminates role explosion through attribute-based field-level security, enables centralized management of regional access policies, and provides a unified audit log for global visibility into critical data access and compliance reporting.Â
To explore more details on the technologies and implementation of SAP global consolidation, NextLabs solution, read the full solution paper. Â
