100 percent independent. Not an SAP partner, reseller, or affiliate. Our only incentive is your outcome.
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SAP Security Consulting that survives the auditor and the attacker.

Independent advisory for Fortune 500 enterprises building defensible SAP control environments. Governance, risk, and compliance, segregation of duties, authorization redesign, SOX, hardening, and penetration testing. All deliverables are independent and admissible to external auditors.

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500+Client engagements
35%Average risk reduction
$2.1BSAP spend advised
100%Independent
What we cover

Five areas of security consulting expertise.

From day to day GRC operations to red team simulation, our security work covers the full control environment in SAP. Each expertise page describes our methodology and typical client outcomes.

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GRC and Access Control

SAP GRC Access Control implementation, ruleset tuning, and segregation of duties remediation. We bring your access governance from periodic audit fire drill to continuous control.

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SOX Compliance and ITGC

Section four oh four readiness, IT general controls design, control testing, and external audit support for public companies running SAP as the financial system of record.

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Authorization and Role Design

Role library rebuild, position based authorization, derived role architecture, and clean up of overprovisioned roles inherited from previous projects or migrations.

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Security Hardening

Operating system, database, and SAP NetWeaver hardening. Profile parameter review, patch strategy, transport security, RFC scoping, and Solution Manager based monitoring.

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Penetration Testing and Red Team

SAP specific penetration testing, exploit validation, and red team exercises that prove your controls under adversarial conditions. Every finding is reproducible and includes remediation guidance.

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Cross over with License Consulting

Security findings increasingly drive license measurement. The same role redesign that removes SoD conflicts also right sizes named user counts. See our license consulting service for the commercial side.

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Our approach

How we engage

Every security consulting engagement follows the same four phase structure. Senior advisors lead from the first call to final deliverables that hold up in front of external auditors and regulators.

Phase 01

Assess

Risk based assessment of your control environment, segregation of duties posture, authorization design, and hardening status against current SAP guidance.

Phase 02

Strategize

Joint working sessions with audit, IT security, and process owners to set a roadmap that addresses control gaps without disrupting business operations.

Phase 03

Execute

Direct support during role rebuild, ruleset tuning, hardening, penetration testing, or SOX readiness. Documented decisions, defensible evidence.

Phase 04

Sustain

Operational playbook, control narratives, and monitoring guidance so the gains hold through the next external audit and the next SAP release.

Proven outcomes

Case studies from this service line

A sample of recent security consulting engagements with Fortune 500 clients. All figures verified by external audit firms where applicable. Names are withheld under confidentiality.

Enterprise data center server racks
GRC and SoD
88%
Segregation of duties conflicts removed

Global pharmaceutical company. Inherited four thousand SoD conflicts across finance and supply chain. We rebuilt the role library, tuned the GRC ruleset, and reduced conflicts by eighty eight percent in eleven weeks.

Audit team reviewing financial controls
SOX and ITGC
0
Material weaknesses reported

US insurance company. Inherited a material weakness from prior year SOX testing. We redesigned the ITGC framework, rebuilt the control narratives, and closed the year with zero material weaknesses reported.

Security analyst monitoring network activity
Penetration testing
17
Critical findings, all remediated

European energy major. SAP specific penetration test produced seventeen critical findings across NetWeaver, RFC, and SAProuter. All findings were remediated and validated within a single quarter.

Measured impact

What enterprises achieve when they engage SAPAudits.

Across more than five hundred engagements, we have produced consistent, measurable security outcomes for audit, finance, IT, and risk functions.

85%SoD conflicts removed
100%SOX audits passed
0Material weaknesses reported
0SAP commercial conflicts
Related research

White papers for this service

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SAP GRC Maturity Model

A five stage framework for measuring and improving access governance in SAP S/4HANA estates.
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SOX ITGC Blueprint

Control design, testing scripts, and evidence templates for public company SOX programs running SAP.
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Common SAP Penetration Test Findings

The fifteen most frequent SAP specific vulnerabilities we find in Fortune 500 environments and how to close them.

Common questions about security consulting

Do you have an SAP partner relationship?+
No. SAPAudits has no commercial relationship with SAP SE or any SAP reseller. We do not earn margin on software, we are not certified as an SAP partner, and we are not financially compensated by SAP for any client outcome. See our why independent page for the full statement of independence.
Is your work admissible to external audit?+
Yes. Our deliverables are designed for review by external audit firms. We document scope, methodology, evidence sampling, and conclusions in a format that integrates with workpapers from Big Four firms and second tier audit providers. Reports are signed by the senior advisor responsible.
Can you support both SAP ECC and S/4HANA?+
Yes. Most Fortune 500 clients run a mix of ECC and S/4HANA across landscape. Our work covers both, including dual landscape SOX programs and migration era control designs that survive both before and after the cut over.
How do you scope a penetration test?+
We agree scope in writing with named systems, exclusion lists, and a defined test window. We do not perform destructive tests, we coordinate with your operations team for every active engagement step, and we include reproducible proof of concept with every finding so your team can verify and validate.
Do you work with our existing audit firm?+
Yes. Many engagements are joint with the client and the client's audit firm. We are independent of the audit firm but coordinate work product so there is no duplication and so that our remediation can be validated efficiently during the next round of testing.
Start the conversation

Talk to a senior security advisor.

Every engagement begins with a confidential, no obligation assessment. Tell us what you are facing and we respond within one business day.

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Tell us your SAP situation and what is at stake
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We respond within 24 hours with an initial assessment
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30 minute call with a senior advisor at no charge

All consultations are confidential. We respond within 24 hours.