CERPASS for Security Admins: Role Risk, Simulations & Controls

Use Case Summary

This demo outlines how Security Administrators use CERPASS to proactively manage role design, simulate access changes, and reduce risk exposure—all while supporting continuous compliance improvement. By providing a centralized, intuitive platform, CERPASS enables administrators to streamline the complex task of managing SAP roles and authorizations, ensuring that access rights are both efficient and compliant.
Security Administrators can leverage CERPASS to design and refine role structures with precision, reducing the likelihood of segregation of duties (SoD) conflicts and minimizing unnecessary access privileges. The platform’s simulation capabilities allow administrators to model potential access changes before they are implemented, giving them a clear view of the downstream impact on compliance and risk exposure. This proactive approach helps prevent issues before they arise, rather than relying on reactive remediation.
In addition, CERPASS equips administrators with real-time dashboards and analytics that highlight high-risk access patterns, control gaps, and remediation progress. This visibility empowers them to take corrective action quickly and maintain alignment with organizational policies and regulatory requirements. By integrating compliance monitoring directly into role management workflows, CERPASS ensures that every access decision contributes to a stronger security posture.
Ultimately, CERPASS transforms the role of Security Administrators from gatekeepers to strategic enablers. They can confidently balance operational efficiency with compliance demands, reduce audit fatigue by maintaining audit-ready evidence, and continuously improve the organization’s security framework. This outcome not only strengthens compliance resilience but also supports broader business objectives by safeguarding sensitive data and reinforcing trust with stakeholders.

✅ Access Profile

Security Administrators have full access to CERPASS, enabling them to oversee, configure, and manage every aspect of compliance and security operations. Beyond the standard risk dashboards and reports, their access profile unlocks a suite of powerful configuration tools designed to streamline role management, strengthen controls, and ensure continuous compliance.

Key capabilities include:

• Simulations for Access Change Previews
  Administrators can model proposed access changes before implementation, allowing them to visualize potential impacts on segregation of duties (SoD), risk exposure, and compliance posture. This proactive feature helps prevent conflicts and reduces the need for costly remediation after changes are made.
• Role Repository and Import Functions
  CERPASS provides a centralized repository where administrators can store, manage, and refine role definitions. Import functions make it easy to integrate existing role structures or migrate from legacy systems, ensuring consistency and efficiency in role design. This repository serves as a single source of truth for SAP access management.
• Control Execution and Workflow Tracking
  Administrators can directly execute compliance controls and monitor workflows in real time. This includes tracking approvals, remediation steps, and escalation paths, ensuring that every compliance activity is documented and auditable. Workflow tracking provides visibility into task ownership and completion, reducing bottlenecks and strengthening accountability.

By combining these tools with comprehensive reporting and analytics, CERPASS empowers Security Administrators to move beyond reactive compliance management. They can design secure, efficient role structures, anticipate risks before they materialize, and maintain continuous audit readiness. This level of access transforms administrators into strategic enablers—balancing operational efficiency with regulatory assurance while safeguarding the integrity of SAP environments.

✅ Simulations: Test Before You Transport

One of the most powerful features available to Security Administrators in CERPASS is the Simulate Access Changes workflow. This capability allows admins to preview and test the impact of potential adjustments before they are applied, ensuring that changes strengthen security without introducing new risks.

With this workflow, administrators can:

• Import existing roles and authorizations to establish a baseline for analysis.
• Propose composite role modifications such as adding or removing single roles within a broader structure.
• Adjust or remove authorizations at the individual role level to fine-tune access rights.
• Model multiple simultaneous changes to understand how combined updates will affect compliance and risk exposure.

By simulating changes in advance, Security Administrators gain confidence in their decisions, reduce the likelihood of segregation of duties conflicts, and maintain continuous compliance readiness. This proactive approach transforms role management from a reactive task into a strategic process that safeguards both operational efficiency and regulatory assurance.

🧪 No impact to SAP until you're ready: CERPASS does not write changes back to SAP. All simulations are safe, contained, and fully transparent.

✅ Additional Capabilities for Security Teams

Security Admins also benefit from tools supporting end-to-end SAP access lifecycle management:

CERPASS gives SAP Security Administrators the tools they need to operate with confidence and precision in managing complex access environments. By consolidating risk analysis, role design, and compliance monitoring into a single platform, CERPASS transforms security administration from a reactive task into a proactive, strategic discipline.

With CERPASS, administrators can:

• Proactively simulate changes and assess risk
  Preview the impact of proposed role or authorization changes before implementation, ensuring that adjustments do not introduce segregation of duties (SoD) conflicts or elevate risk exposure. This proactive capability reduces costly remediation efforts and strengthens compliance readiness.
• Make informed design decisions
  Access detailed analytics and role repositories that provide clarity on existing structures, potential conflicts, and optimization opportunities. Administrators can design roles that balance operational efficiency with regulatory requirements, aligning access with business needs while safeguarding sensitive data.
• Maintain continuous SoD compliance
  Automated monitoring ensures that segregation of duties risks are identified and addressed in real time. CERPASS enables administrators to track remediation progress, enforce policies consistently, and demonstrate ongoing compliance to auditors and stakeholders.
• Support safe, auditable access changes within SAP
  Every change is documented with full transparency, creating audit-ready evidence that strengthens accountability. Workflow tracking ensures that approvals, escalations, and corrective actions are visible and traceable, reducing audit fatigue and reinforcing trust with regulators.

Ultimately, CERPASS empowers SAP Security Administrators to move beyond day-to-day firefighting and into strategic risk management. By equipping them with the right tools, the platform enables organizations to safeguard their SAP environments, streamline compliance operations, and build resilience against evolving regulatory and security challenges.