If you create an authorization definition, you need to think about which authorization combinations are not compliant. You can differentiate between two use cases:

1. Find all SAP roles and profiles with invalid combinations of authorizations.

   Create an SAP function for authorizations that cannot occur together with an SAP role or an SAP profile. The authorization check identifies all SAP roles and profiles whose authorizations in total have this invalid combination of authorizations.

2. Find all employees that have obtained invalid combinations of authorizations through their SAP user accounts.

   Create different SAP functions for authorizations that in combination are invalid. Create compliance rules that combine these SAP functions. The compliance check finds all employees who have such invalid authorization combinations over the sum of all authorizations of their SAP user accounts.

Example for use case 1

A company has changed its policies on compliant SAP authorizations. Now the new policies must be checked to see if existing authorizations comply. SAP roles and profiles with invalid combinations of authorizations must be identified so that they can be modified to meet the new requirements.

An SAP function is created for each invalid authorization combination.

Table 6: Example of an authorization definition

SAP function	SAP application	Authorization objects	Field	Value
F-A	TR1	AO2	ACTVT	*
	TR1	AO2	Class	*
	TR1	AO3	ACTVT	02
	TR1	S_TCODE	TCD	TR1
	RF	AO5	ACTVT	*
	RF	AO5	RLTYP	R*
	RF	S_RFC	RFC_NAME	RF
F-B	TR1	AO3	ACTVT	*
	TR1	AO4	ACTVT	02,03,07
	TR1	AO4	Class	DEF[*]
	TR1	S_TCODE	TCD	TR1

The following SAP profiles are available:

Table 7: Defined SAP profiles

SAP profile	SAP application	Authorization objects	Field	Value
P1	TR1	AO1	ACTVT	*
	TR1	AO1	Class	*
	TR1	AO3	ACTVT	*
	TR1	AO4	ACTVT	01, 02
	TR1	AO4	Class	DEF*
	TR1	S_TCODE	TCD	TR1
P2	TR1	AO2	ACTVT	*
	TR1	AO2	Class	*
	TR1	AO3	ACTVT	01
	TR1	S_TCODE	TCD	TR1
P3	TR1	AO3	ACTVT	01, 02
	TR1	AO4	Class	*
	TR1	AO4	ACTVT	03, 07
P4	RF	AO5	ACTVT	03
	RF	AO5	RLTYP	*
	RF	S_RFC	RFC_NAME	RF

SAP profiles are found that match the SAP function during authorization checking.

Results of the authorization check: TestWithoutTCD is not set.

• SAP function: F-A

  SAP profile affected: P4

  The profile P4 has all the authorization objects, fields, and values named in SAP application RF.

  The profile P1 is missing authorization objects AO2, S_TCODE, AO5, and S_RFC. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

  The profile P2 is missing the value 02 for the authorization object AO3 as well as the authorization objects AO5 and S_RFC. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

  The profile P3 is missing authorization objects AO2, S_TCODE, AO5, and S_RFC. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

• SAP function: F-B

  SAP profile affected: P1

  The profile P1 has all the authorization objects and fields named in the SAP function and at least one of the values.

  The profile P2 is missing authorization object AO4. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

  The profile P3 is missing authorization object S_TCODE. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

  Profile P4 is missing the authorization objects AO3, AO4, and S_TCODE. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

If the TestWithoutTCD configuration parameter is set for authorization checking, then the SAP profiles P2 and P3 comply with the new guidelines and can continue to be used. The profiles P1 and P4 must be modified to comply with the new policies.

Results of the authorization check: TestWithoutTCD is set.

• SAP function: F-A

  The authorization objects S_TCODE and S_RFC are ignored during the check.

  SAP profile affected: none

  The profile P1 is missing authorization objects AO2 and AO5. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

  Profile P2 is missing authorization object AO5 and value 02 for authorization object AO3. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

  The profile P3 is missing authorization objects AO2 and AO5. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

  The profile P4 is missing authorization objects AO2 and AO3. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

• SAP function: F-B

  The authorization object S_TCODE is ignored during the check.

  SAP profiles affected: P1, P3

  The profile P1 has all the authorization objects and fields named in the SAP function and at least one of the values.

  The profile P3 has all the authorization objects and fields named in the SAP function and at least one of the values.

  The profile P2 is missing authorization object AO4. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

  The profile P4 is missing authorization objects AO3 and AO4. Therefore it does not match the SAP function.

If the TestWithoutTCD configuration parameter is set for authorization checking, then the SAP profiles P2 and P4 comply with the new guidelines and can continue to be used. The P1 and P3 profiles must be adjusted.

Example for use case 2

SAP user accounts must be checked for guidelines violations. The following user accounts and employees are available:

• User A with user account AC1 with the SAP profile P1

• User B with user account AC2 with the SAP profiles P2 and P3

• User C with user account AC3 with the SAP profile P2 and user account AC4 with the SAP profile P3

The SAP profiles have the following authorizations:

• P1 with AO1 and AO2

• P2 with AO1

• P3 with AO2

An employee cannot have both AO1 and AO2 authorizations at the same time. The SAP function SF-A is created for the check. A compliance rule CR-X finds all employees that match this SAP function.

• SF-A checks AO1 AND AO2

• CR-X: The employee has at least the SAP SF-A function.

Only the SAP profile P1 matches the SAP function. Therefore, the compliance rule finds a rule violation for just User A. To ensure that the combination of the SAP profiles P2 and P3 is also recognized as invalid, additional SAP functions and compliance rules must be created.

• SF-B checks AO1

• SF-C checks AO2

• CR-Y: The employee has at least the SAP function SF-B AND has at least the SAP function SF-C.

The SAP profiles P1 and P2 match the SAP function SF-B. The SAP profiles P1 and P3 match the SAP function SF-C. Thus, the compliance rule CR-Y can be used to determine all employees who are assigned the SAP profiles P1 or P2 and P3 though their user accounts and therefore have both authorizations AO1 and AO2.

Table 8: Result of the rule check

Rule	Rule condition	Employee who violate rules
CR-X	The employee has at least the SAP SF-A function.	User A
CR-Y	The employee has at least the SAP function SF-B AND has at least the SAP function SF-C.	User A User B User C

Related topics

• Finding invalid authorizations
• Rule conditions for SAP functions