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QUESTION POSED BY: drcliff@tpg.com.au on 25 November 2003
What makes SAP more secure than some other systems available?
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SAP has focused on providing a number of options to secure processes and
data. These options range from security technical controls, system process
controls, workflow, and best-practice procedural controls. Providing a
granular and comprehensive means to secure based on busines requirements.
From a product perspective, SAP has provided adequate technical and best
practice controls already integrated into the system to meet most
organizations' security requirements. But it should also be noted that
most ERP vendors also provide both extensive technical and process controls
as well.
So it is not the technical controls that make one ERP solution more secure
than others, it is the implemenation of those controls that do. Any
system's security effectiveness can only be measured by the comprehensive
sum of all the controls that make up the systems security environment.
These controls ranging from Operating System and network security to
transaction and field security to even check-balance and sum controls all
combine to make up the system's security level. Therefore, while SAP does
provide best-in-class security functionality, it is only as secure as an
organization's desire to make it.
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