Sym-Guard: ControlPanel Suite for SAP Compliance from Symmetry Corporation

Solutions for Fully Controlled SAP® Environments

Introducing the ControlPanel Suite for SAP Compliance – a powerful solution that integrates robust tools to accelerate your day to day security and transport operations – as well as addressing your compliance needs.

ControlPanel Modules

Symmetry’s team of Security Experts understand the painstaking effort involved in researching and analyzing compliance issues as well managing day to day security administration processes. The ControlPanel Suite evolved from the integration of Symmetry’s mature software products with time saving tools developed and used by our own Security Experts. The result is a suite of integrated modules that provide practical, usable solutions to accelerate the day to day administration of SAP security and change requests, with a built-in process that ensures compliance.

  • ControlPanel Risk AnalyzerSM
  • ControlPanel Usage AnalyzerSM (formerly RBE)
  • ControlPanel Transport ManagerSM (formerly Q-TMS)
  • ControlPanel User and Role ManagerSM
  • ControlPanel Emergency Access ManagerSM (formerly FireCall)
  • ControlPanel AutoAuditorSM

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Key Features and Benefits

Convenience of a Complete Solution for Fully Controlled SAP Environments

ControlPanel delivers greater flexibility to your security team by providing a complete solution for fully controlled SAP environments that includes compliance, accelerated day to day security and transport operations all in one.

Low Cost, Excellent Value

Symmetry understands the pressures faced in today’s economy. The ControlPanel Suite for SAP Compliance retails at a far lower cost than other security solutions and still delivers the quality you have come to expect from Symmetry. Additionally, ControlPanel Suite is an SAP-centric solution, written in ABAP, and does not require any extra infrastructure investment to run.

Control the Key Business Processes Targeted by Auditors

The ControlPanel Suite for SAP Compliance is designed to address auditor’s major areas of concern for compliance in SAP.

User and Role Change Management

  • Accelerate day to day SAP security administration with workflows to analyze and provision User and Role changes. Risks are identified and mitigated during the User or Role request process.

Change Request Management

  • Ensure your change management policies are enforced – Control Panel automatically processes Change Requests and incorporates tracking and recording into the workflow.

Compliance Risk Management

  • Real-time Risk analysis and mitigation of Authorizations for Segregation of Duty and Sensitive Authorization risks at the Authorization Object level.
  • ControlPanel contains an extensible predefined Rulebook that can be customized based on business or auditor requirements.

Emergency Access Management

  • In an emergency Users are automatically provisioned with temporary authorizations from a predefined range of Roles. ControlPanel ensures an audit trail is created by tracking the movements of a specific User, not a generic emergency logon, and documenting the review of emergency access session logs.

Enterprise Risk Management

  • Reduce the cost and hassle of producing compliance reports for auditors – ControlPanel analysis reports are based on real-time data collection and contain all the information you need to understand your options and remediate risks.
  • Ongoing monitoring and notification of actual system usage including:
    • Role and User Analysis reports to identify unused Transactions assigned to Roles and unused Roles assigned to Users
    • Sensitive Transaction Monitoring enabling logging of actions performed and changes made in selected Transactions
    • Statistical Analysis of Transaction volume, for all users or specific Users, to help scope upgrades.
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"The status of all our changes is tracked in Q-TMS. If a production problem occurs, we can quickly look up what got transported into production and notify the developer."

Dmitry Ulman Programmer Analyst
Shure Inc.