Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The SAP Security Architect Customer-Audit Defence Playbook

Walk a customer auditor through your S/4HANA, BTP, and Fiori control set without losing a single artefact to follow-up.

Every quarter the customer-side auditor asks for the SAP authorisation concept, the SoD ruleset, the privileged-access break-glass log, and the BTP destination inventory in a single coherent narrative. The architect on the account rebuilds that narrative from scratch each time.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Security architects on SAP customer engagements own a brief that no single console answers. S/4HANA role design lives in PFCG and the authorisation concept document. The Segregation-of-Duties ruleset lives in GRC Access Control or in a custom matrix the customer maintains by hand. Privileged access lives in PAM and in the SAP_ALL break-glass log that nobody reads until the auditor asks. BTP trust, destination configuration, and subaccount role collections live in the cockpit and almost never get rolled up into the on-premise control story. Fiori catalogue and group mapping ties the role concept to the user experience and gets rebuilt every release. Then the customer-side compliance team forwards an external auditor email asking for the whole picture in one document, and the architect spends a week assembling it from screenshots and exports. The narrative the auditor wants is straightforward, but the artefacts that prove it are scattered across six consoles and three teams. The course assembles that narrative once, as a reusable template set, so the next audit cycle is a refresh rather than a rebuild.

What you walk away with

Assemble the full customer-audit artefact set across S/4HANA, BTP, and Fiori in one consistent narrative.
Walk an external auditor through the authorisation concept, SoD ruleset, and privileged-access controls in a single session.
Map BTP subaccount trust, destination configuration, and role collections back to the on-premise control story.
Hand the customer-side compliance team a refresh-ready evidence pack that survives quarter-on-quarter audit cycles.
Defend role design decisions and break-glass usage with logs and rationale the auditor will accept on first read.

The 12 modules

Module 1. The customer-audit narrative the SAP security architect owns

What the customer-side compliance team and the external auditor actually ask for, in what order, and which artefact answers each question. The module reframes the architect's job from console-level firefighting to evidence-pack curation. Includes a worked walkthrough of a real customer-audit request email and the artefact set that closed it in a single follow-up.

Module 2. S/4HANA authorisation concept as an audit-ready document

Translating PFCG role design into a written authorisation concept the auditor accepts. Covers role naming conventions, derived roles, organisational levels, transaction-versus-authorisation-object reasoning, and the rationale layer auditors look for. Includes a template authorisation concept document with sections pre-filled for typical customer environments.

Module 3. The SoD ruleset as a defensible matrix

Building, maintaining, and presenting the Segregation-of-Duties ruleset whether the customer runs GRC Access Control or a custom matrix. Covers conflict definition, mitigating controls, residual-risk acceptance, and the evidence trail the auditor expects when a conflict is approved. Includes a worked SoD matrix template and a mitigation register format.

Module 4. Privileged access and the SAP_ALL break-glass log nobody reads

Designing privileged-access workflow so the break-glass log is short, justified, and reviewable. Covers SAP_ALL usage, firefighter sessions, emergency-change approval, and the after-action review template that closes each privileged session in an audit-defensible way. Includes a sample break-glass log review document the auditor will accept.

Module 5. BTP subaccount trust and the destination inventory

Documenting BTP trust configuration, custom identity provider settings, and the destination inventory in a form that maps back to the on-premise control story. Covers SAP IAS integration, subaccount roles, role collections, and the principal propagation pattern. Includes a BTP trust register template and a destination inventory format the auditor recognises.

Module 6. Fiori catalogue and group mapping under role concept stress

Tying the Fiori catalogue and group structure back to the authorisation concept so a user's screen matches the role design on paper. Covers catalogue assignment, app-to-role traceability, and the release-cycle pattern that prevents drift between role design and user experience. Includes a Fiori-to-role traceability matrix template.

Module 7. Identity lifecycle and the joiner-mover-leaver evidence trail

What the auditor wants to see for user provisioning, role assignment change, and de-provisioning. Covers SAP Identity Management, manual lifecycle workflows, customer HR-feed integration, and the joiner-mover-leaver evidence pack that closes the user-lifecycle section of the audit. Includes a lifecycle-event log template and a quarterly access-review pack format.

Module 8. Customer-side compliance handoff and the evidence pack

How to package the artefact set so the customer-side compliance team can hand it to the auditor without coming back to the architect for every follow-up. Covers naming conventions, version control, the read-me document the pack opens with, and the response template for common auditor clarifications. Includes a full evidence-pack folder structure ready to populate.

Module 9. Walking the external auditor through the control set

The session-format script for the audit walkthrough itself. Covers session structure, the order to present artefacts, the questions the auditor will ask in each section, and the rationale the architect should have ready. Includes a walkthrough deck template plus an architect-side prep brief for the meeting.

Module 10. Customer landscape variation and the audit script adjustment

How the walkthrough adjusts when the customer is a financial-services organisation under SOC reporting versus a pharma organisation under GxP versus a public-sector organisation under sovereign-cloud expectations. Covers the script delta for each landscape and the artefact additions each demands. Includes a customer-landscape audit-script overlay set.

Module 11. Release cycles, change management, and audit continuity

Keeping the evidence pack refresh-ready across SAP release cycles and customer-side change management. Covers the quarterly refresh checklist, the release-impact review template, and the change-control trail the auditor will trace from a single transaction code back to the approval. Includes a release-impact log and a change-control trace template.

Module 12. The hand-built implementation playbook prepared for your landscape

The per-buyer playbook is built for your specific S/4HANA release, BTP subaccount layout, and customer industry, with the templates pre-populated for the consoles you actually run. The course content is the reusable layer. The playbook is the layer prepared for your account. Delivered alongside course access in the learning environment.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

The customer-side compliance team forwards an external auditor email and the architect has to assemble four scattered artefacts by week-end.

A privileged-access session was used in production and the auditor is asking who approved it, what was done, and what review closed it.

BTP subaccount trust was reconfigured for a new identity provider and the on-premise control story has not caught up.

Quarter close lands the same week as the customer audit window and the evidence pack needs to be refresh-ready, not rebuilt.

What you get with this course

Twelve written course modules in the Art of Service learning environment with worked examples drawn from real customer-side SAP audits.
Downloadable templates for the authorisation concept, SoD matrix, mitigation register, break-glass log review, BTP trust register, destination inventory, Fiori-to-role traceability matrix, lifecycle-event log, evidence-pack folder structure, walkthrough deck, customer-landscape audit-script overlays, release-impact log, and change-control trace.
A hand-built implementation playbook prepared for your specific S/4HANA release, BTP subaccount layout, and customer industry.
Free refresh of the per-buyer playbook for one SAP release cycle after purchase.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Within the day: account provisioned in the Art of Service learning environment with all twelve modules unlocked.

Within the day: hand-built implementation playbook prepared for your landscape, delivered alongside course access.

Ongoing: free refresh of the per-buyer playbook for one SAP release cycle.

Before and after

Before

Each customer audit cycle starts with a week of console-level firefighting, screenshot collection, and rebuilt narratives from scratch.

After

Each customer audit cycle starts with a folder of refresh-ready artefacts, a walkthrough deck the auditor accepts on first read, and a clear architect-side prep brief for the session.

What happens if you do not address this

Customer-side audit findings about scattered artefacts, missing rationale, or untraceable role design become the architect's findings. A repeat finding two cycles in a row escalates from the customer's compliance lead to the account leadership, and the architect is the named owner. The fix is the same artefact set the course assembles, just produced under pressure after the finding rather than under preparation before it.

Who it is for

SAP Certified Security Architects on customer engagements, internal SAP security leads at S/4HANA-running organisations, and SAP basis-plus-security hybrids who own both the authorisation concept and the BTP trust configuration. Especially relevant to architects supporting customers in financial services, pharma, public sector, and other regulated verticals where customer-side audit is a quarterly rhythm.

Who this is NOT for. Not for ABAP developers who do not touch the authorisation concept, not for functional consultants whose role is process design rather than security, and not for compliance generalists who do not work inside the SAP consoles. The course assumes hands-on PFCG, GRC, and BTP cockpit familiarity.

How it arrives

Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.

Time investment. About six to eight focused hours across the twelve modules. Most architects work through one module per evening across two weeks and assemble the evidence pack alongside.

Why $199 is the right number

SAP partner audit-readiness engagements typically start at five figures and assume a single landscape. Internal SAP security communities share fragmented templates that the architect still has to assemble into a coherent pack. This course is the assembled pack plus the rationale layer, priced as a course rather than a partner engagement, with the per-buyer playbook prepared for the architect's actual landscape.

FAQ

Does this assume GRC Access Control or does it work with a custom SoD matrix?

Both. The SoD module covers the GRC Access Control pattern and the custom-matrix pattern separately, and the templates include both formats.

Does this cover BTP only or on-premise only?

Both, and specifically the control-story bridge between them. The authorisation concept is treated as one narrative that spans on-premise and BTP rather than two separate documents.

What does the hand-built implementation playbook actually contain?

The playbook is prepared for your specific S/4HANA release, BTP subaccount layout, and customer industry. The templates are pre-populated for the consoles you actually run and the audit overlays you actually face, so the assembly work is already done for your landscape.

Is there a refund if the course is not useful?

Yes. A thirty-day money-back guarantee covers the full purchase.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.