October 2010 – Sap Security Pages

User Information System

The User Information System (transaction SUIM) is a set of reports on user-authorization data which allows security administrators to query

The Security Trace Tool (transaction ST01) provides a way to trace the complete sequence of security checks for transaction. Since

Troubleshooting security issues is one of the daily tasks of any security administrator. The first method of investigating authorization failures

In our article on SU24, we saw the feasibility of selectively switching off checks for certain authorization objects. However, HR

This post talks about the program level mechanism to implement a check for a particular authorization object. SAP Business applications

The SU24 transaction is one of the most important transactions in security. Its used to maintain all the objects that

SAP HR deals with private employee data much of which might be of sensitive nature. As a result the HR

Human Capital Management or SAP HR is the SAP module dealing with Human Resources and includes business processes like Recruitment

A valid user master record must exist for all users accessing the SAP system. The user master is accessed through

Access to SAP system are assigned to users through roles maintained in their user master. In this article, we explore