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Hannah Smalltree, Editorial Director
Well, you may be ahead of your time, but I talked with a couple SAP staffing gurus about this, and they both swear that the future of SAP will include a role for security and authorizations specialists. Of course, this role might span to include more than just core SAP: it might include authorizing access to BW, for example. Recently, I saw a couple of very interesting BW/Security positions. Yes, you're right, security is still often thought of as a subset of Basis, but while I believe that all Basis consultants need to have some knowledge of security, I do think that there will be a role on projects - at least large ones - for SAP security specialists. Now, we're not talking about real sexy stuff here. Spending the day setting up and authorizing SAP system access is not exactly as exciting as fighting hackers and other high-profile duties that an enterprise security specialist might get involved with. But you're right - authorizations is a complex enough area that companies should hire a specialist for. But in the meantime, it can't hurt you to learn more about Basis technologies, and how SAP handles security in version 4.7, in BW, and in other mySAP-related products. This was first published in August 2003