SAP Security Concepts
Maintain authorization objects more easily
This advanced functionality of the transaction SU53 is delivered via a patch. Please refer to SAP Note 1671117 for more information on the required support packages and technical background. Unsuccessful permission checks are now written to a ring buffer of the application server's Shared Memories. This will allow you to view failed permission checks in Web Dynpro applications or other user interfaces, which was not previously possible. Depending on the size of the ring buffer and system usage, up to 100 failed permissions checks per user can be displayed for the last three hours. The size of the ring buffer is calculated from the number of defined work processes. By default, 100 permission checks can be saved per workprocess. You can adjust this size using the auth/su53_buffer_entries profile parameter.
You can use the Security Audit Log to control security-related events. Learn how to configure it to monitor the operations that are relevant to you. You want to use the Security Audit Log to monitor certain security-related operations or particularly well-authorised users in the SAP system. For example, you can log failed RFC calls system-wide, delete users, or log all activities of the default user, DDIC. For these loggers you need different recording filters and, if necessary, the possibility to select generic clients or users. Therefore, we will show you the settings you can make when configuring the Security Audit Log.
SU2X_CHECK_CONSISTENCY & SU24_AUTO_REPAIR
You can create such an organisational matrix as an Excel file or in ABAP; This depends on how you want to read the data. When using a common standard solution (e.g. SAP Access Control), a corresponding maintenance view is usually offered. We first describe how you can provide automated mass care in the form of a custom development.
The possibility of assigning authorizations during the go-live can be additionally secured by using "Shortcut for SAP systems".
If you want to know more about SAP authorizations, visit the website "www.sap-corner.de".
For medium-sized companies, the use of an authorization tool is usually also worthwhile.