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A focused course, tailored for you

The SAP Security Architect Customer-Audit Defence Course

Name: The SAP Security Architect Customer-Audit Defence Course
Price: 199 USD
Availability: InStock

Walk a customer auditor through your SoD ruleset, BTP destinations, IAS tenant, and S/4HANA authorisation concept without surprises.

Your customer's external auditor wants to see the SoD ruleset, the BTP destination inventory, and the IAS trust evidence by Friday. SAP's own guidance does not tell you how to present it.

$199 one-time

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

Why this course

An SAP Security Architect sitting inside a roll-out programme owns a defence that nobody else on the project can run. The basis lead can show you the parameter file. The functional lead can show you the role definitions. Neither of them can sit opposite the customer's SOX auditor, or the customer's ISO 27001 lead auditor, or the customer's GxP qualification reviewer, and walk that person through the SAP_ALL footprint, the SU24 proposal history, the PFCG-derived role tree, the SAP GRC Access Control ruleset and mitigation log, the BTP destination and trust chain, the IAS tenant evidence, and the HANA audit log retention without losing the room. The artefacts exist. The walkthrough does not. This course is that walkthrough, written down. It is structured for the SAP Security Architect who knows the technical mechanics and now has to translate them into the language an external auditor uses.

What you walk away with

Walk a customer's external auditor through the full SoD ruleset rationale, including the mitigation log, without the steerco discovering a surprise.
Translate the S/4HANA business-role design and SU24 proposal history into SOX 404, ISO 27001 Annex A.9, and GxP 21 CFR Part 11 language on demand.
Present the BTP destination inventory, IAS trust chain, and SCP subaccount entitlements as a single evidence pack the customer's security team can sign off.
Defend the HANA audit log retention policy and the change-management evidence trail without scrambling for screenshots during the session.
Hand the customer's compliance team a written authorisation-concept document that closes the audit finding without a follow-up cycle.

The 12 modules

Module 1. The SAP_ALL Footprint Defence

The audit question that lands first is always about emergency users, SAP_ALL assignments, and firefighter access. This module covers the SAP_ALL inventory query in S/4HANA, the GRC Access Control firefighter log, the SU01 audit history, and how to present emergency access as a controlled exception rather than a residual risk. Includes the language for SOX 404 and ISO 27001 A.9.2.3 auditors.

Module 2. The SU24 Proposal History and Why Auditors Care

Customer auditors increasingly ask why a transaction is allowed in a business role, not just whether it is. This module walks the SU24 proposal table, the SAP-delivered defaults versus customer overrides, and how to present the SU24 change history as evidence of design intent. Includes the worked example for an S/4HANA Finance role and the auditor-ready export query.

Module 3. PFCG-Derived Role Trees Without the Diagram Trap

Single-role, composite-role, business-role layers confuse auditors who are used to flat RBAC models. This module covers the derived-role inheritance logic in PFCG, the org-level field mapping that drives data segregation, and how to present the role tree as a controlled hierarchy. Includes the SAP_BR_* business role mapping for S/4HANA and the three diagrams that work in an audit room.

Module 4. The GRC Access Control Ruleset Rationale

Every customer-side audit wants the SoD ruleset, the conflict list, and the mitigating-control assignments. This module covers ruleset versioning, the rationale document that auditors expect alongside the ruleset, the false-positive analysis, and how to present mitigating-control evidence as a working compensating control rather than a paperwork exercise. Includes the SOX 404 mapping table.

Module 5. The Mitigation Log as an Audit Artefact

Mitigation controls live or die on the log. This module covers the structure of an auditor-grade mitigation log, the periodic review evidence, the monitor-assignment trail, and how to present the log as a continuously-operated control rather than a one-time approval. Includes the worked example for procure-to-pay SoD mitigations and the export format auditors accept without a callback.

Module 6. BTP Destinations and the SAP-to-SAP Trust Chain

BTP destinations now sit on every customer roll-out and almost no audit script covers them properly. This module walks the destination inventory in the SAP Cloud Connector, the principal-propagation chain to the S/4HANA backend, the OAuth flows used by extension apps, and how to present the trust chain as one diagram the auditor can sign off. Includes the IAS-to-IPS-to-S/4HANA worked example.

Module 7. IAS Tenant Evidence That an External Auditor Accepts

Identity Authentication Service trust tenants, the corporate IdP federation, and the conditional access policies all sit in a console the customer's IT auditor cannot read. This module covers the export pack, the tenant-level audit log, the federation evidence, and how to translate the IAS console state into SOC 2 CC6.1 and ISO 27001 A.9.4 language. Includes the screenshots-that-work checklist.

Module 8. The HANA Audit Log Retention Story

HANA audit policies, the persistence layer, and the retention window are where data-protection auditors land. This module covers the audit policy configuration, the persistence-layer evidence, the retention-window justification under GDPR Article 30 and SOX retention rules, and how to present the log as a controlled, queryable evidence source. Includes the worked retention-policy document and the auditor-ready query set.

Module 9. Change Management Evidence Across CHARM and Solution Manager

Customer auditors trace authorisation-relevant changes through the transport landscape. This module covers the CHARM workflow evidence, the Solution Manager change document trail, the transport-import log, and how to present a change from a Jira ticket through CHARM, ChaRM, the transport queue, into the production client. Includes the worked walkthrough for an S/4HANA Finance role change.

Module 10. Translating the Concept Into SOX 404, ISO 27001, and GxP Language

The same authorisation concept document has to satisfy three different audit frameworks. This module covers the SOX 404 control-design language, the ISO 27001 Annex A.9 statement-of-applicability language, the GxP 21 CFR Part 11 electronic-records language, and how to write one concept document that serves all three without losing the technical accuracy. Includes the three side-by-side translation tables.

Module 11. The Authorisation Concept Document Itself

Most projects ship without a concept document that an external auditor will accept. This module covers the full structure: scope, design principles, role-design methodology, SoD policy, mitigation policy, emergency access policy, sensitive transaction handling, change governance. Includes the document template, the review checklist, and the sign-off page the customer's security lead can countersign.

Module 12. Running the Customer Audit Session Live

The walkthrough itself decides the outcome more than the documents do. This module covers the session agenda the auditor expects, the opening narrative that anchors confidence, the demo flow through SU01 and PFCG and GRC, the question-handling pattern when the auditor digs into an exception, the closing summary that prevents a follow-up cycle. Includes the rehearsal script and the post-session follow-up letter template.

How this addresses your situation

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

A customer roll-out steerco has put the SoD evidence and the BTP destination inventory on the same agenda for Friday and you own the response.

A customer-side SOX auditor has flagged the SAP_ALL footprint and the firefighter log as a finding and the remediation plan is due in two weeks.

A customer is moving from ECC to S/4HANA and the SU24 proposal differences are about to land in a change-advisory board you need to defend.

A customer extension on BTP has triggered an ISO 27001 lead auditor to ask for the IAS-to-S/4HANA trust diagram and the principal-propagation evidence.

What you get with this course

Twelve written modules in the Art of Service learning environment, structured for the SAP Security Architect role.
Downloadable templates for the authorisation-concept document, the SoD ruleset rationale, the mitigation log, and the BTP destination evidence pack.
Worked examples for SAP_ALL footprint queries, SU24 proposal history exports, GRC mitigation log structures, and HANA audit retention policies.
Side-by-side translation tables for SOX 404, ISO 27001 Annex A.9, and GxP 21 CFR Part 11.
The hand-built implementation playbook for the specific customer roll-out being defended, delivered alongside course access.
Thirty-day money-back if the course does not change how the next customer-audit walkthrough goes.

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

Within 24 hours: learning environment account provisioned and the hand-built implementation playbook delivered.

Week one: complete modules one through four (SAP_ALL, SU24, PFCG, GRC ruleset rationale) and produce the first draft of the authorisation concept document.

Week two: complete modules five through eight (mitigation log, BTP destinations, IAS evidence, HANA audit log) and assemble the customer evidence pack.

Week three: complete modules nine through twelve (change management, framework translation, concept document, live session) and rehearse the customer-audit walkthrough.

Ongoing: the implementation playbook stays as the working reference document the architect updates for each subsequent customer engagement.

Before and after

Before

The customer auditor's questions land and the response is assembled in a scramble across basis, functional, GRC, and security teams, with the architect translating each technical artefact into auditor language on the fly and hoping the steerco does not surface a gap.

After

The authorisation concept document is written, the SoD ruleset has a rationale auditors accept, the BTP and IAS evidence packs are pre-assembled, the framework translation tables are ready, and the audit session runs as a structured walkthrough the architect controls.

What happens if you do not address this

Customer-side audit findings on SAP roll-outs are the most expensive kind of finding to remediate. They surface at steerco, they delay go-live, they trigger follow-up audits, and they damage the SAP team's standing inside the customer programme. The cost of one unresolved finding on a single roll-out outstrips the cost of this course by three orders of magnitude.

Who it is for

SAP Security Architects working on customer roll-outs, S/4HANA migrations, BTP-extension programmes, or post-go-live defence. Senior enough to own the security concept end to end, close enough to delivery to be the one defending it when the customer's auditor arrives.

Who this is NOT for. Functional consultants who do not own the authorisation concept. GRC analysts who run the ruleset but do not present it. Basis administrators whose remit ends at the technical layer. Anyone selling tooling rather than defending a live customer engagement.

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. Two to three hours per module, twelve modules total, deliverable across a three-week sprint or a longer cadence aligned to the customer roll-out timeline.

Why $199 is the right number

SAP-internal enablement covers what the controls do, not how to defend them in a customer audit. SAP GRC tooling documentation covers configuration, not narrative. Big4 audit-readiness consultancy starts at roughly thirty thousand USD per engagement and arrives without the SAP-specific authorisation depth. Free SAP Community content covers fragments. This course covers the full customer-audit walkthrough end to end, with the artefacts, the translation language, and the session script, for 199 USD plus the hand-built implementation playbook.

FAQ

Is this specific to S/4HANA, or does it cover ECC roll-outs too?

Both. The authorisation-concept methodology and the SoD ruleset rationale apply equally to ECC and S/4HANA. The SU24 and SAP_BR_* business-role content is S/4HANA specific. The BTP, IAS, and HANA audit-log modules apply to any roll-out that uses those components.

Do I need to be running GRC Access Control to get value from this?

No. The methodology covers the ruleset and mitigation log structure whether you are using GRC Access Control, a third-party tool, or a custom Z-table approach. The worked examples assume GRC AC, the principles transfer.

Will this teach me to design roles, or to defend roles that are already designed?

Both. Modules three and four cover the design rationale that auditors expect to see. Modules nine through twelve cover the defence and the live session. The authorisation-concept document template ties design and defence into one artefact.

What does the hand-built implementation playbook cover?

Whichever customer roll-out you are defending. Send the scope after enrolment. The playbook is hand-built for that specific engagement, with the SoD ruleset rationale, the BTP and IAS evidence pack, and the live-session script written for the auditor framework the customer is operating under.

What happens if my customer is on a non-SAP IdP like Azure AD or Okta?

Module seven covers the IAS-to-corporate-IdP federation pattern. The IAS tenant evidence pack is structured to work whether the corporate IdP is Azure AD, Okta, Ping, or an on-premise ADFS. The federation evidence is what the auditor accepts, not the IdP brand.

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.