1. Indra Tanudjaja San Jose State University November 2002
SAP Security
Indra Tanudjaja San Jose State University November 2002

2. What is SAP?
SAP stands for Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung, which freely translates into Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing. SAP is a collection of software for nearly all business applications in middle and large sized companies.

4. SAP Security Terminology
• Authorization object: the basic building block of SAP security (e.g. user group or company code during invoice payment entry)
• Authorization: Set of values for an authorization object (e.g. user group “Finance” or company code “CA01” during invoice payment entry)
• Profile (Simple Profile): Logical grouping of several authorizations. Profiles usually represent business tasks/functions that can be carried out.
• Composite profile: Logical grouping of several profiles. Composite profiles usually represent roles within an organization.
• User Master: Each user must have a User Master Record. A user is assigned one or more profiles and/or composite profiles in their master record.

7. SAP Security in the real world

9. Questions?