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1 Continuous Monitoring for Enterprise Applications: Real Needs, Real Solutions. November 22, 2002 5 th Continuous Assurance and Auditing Symposium Newark, NJ

2 2 About Approva: Background

3 3 What does Approva do?

4 4 What is the customer pain?

5 5 Large Software Manufacturer Pain Point (SAP)  External Audit identified problems with Separation of Duties conflicts, etc.  19,000 composite profiles to manage  Many users had access to sensitive Basis transactions (high risk)  Not responding to user requirements rapidly enough  Business units were not involved in the approval process  Built an internal tool, which is costly to upgrade and maintain ($500k/yr) Who in organization  Head of Internal Audit, Program Manager, SAP Security What Approva can do for them  Prevent unauthorized SOD violations  Automated approval process for role assignments  Rules-based transaction auditing Benefit to Customer  Reduce exposure to risk.  Simplified Role Management  Cross Application Support

6 6 Large Beverage Manufacturer Pain Point (SAP)  Limited visibility into business transactions and user roles  Multiple “Qualified” Audits  Found that creation of part numbers led to $100M in excess spare parts inventory Who in organization  Head of SAP Application What Approva can do for them  Automated SoD analysis for SAP  Ongoing monitoring of sensitive transactions  Encouraged by our early work Benefit to Customer  Reduce Audit Failures  Monitor for Process Inefficiencies

7 7 Large Manufacturing Company Pain Point (SAP)  Unable to keep up with access changes for 30,000 users  Need to add 100,000 hourly workers to SAP  Can’t solve with people; staff went from 3 to 12, now adding 5 more  Need SoD analysis  Access management to SAP was a risk issue in last audit Who in organization & How we got there  Manager of Information Risk Management What Approva can do for them  Automated approval process for role assignments  Liked our application focus rather than infrastructure focus  Encouraged by our early work Benefit to Customer  Reduce exposure to risk.  Simplified Role Management

8 8 Large Retail Company Pain Point (PeopleSoft)  Visibility on sensitive transactions (e.g., violation of insider-trading rules)  Automating provisioning to their applications  Takes 2 weeks to provision a new employee  Understanding user rights within applications Who in organization  Head of Internal Audit, Internal Auditor for IT, Mgr InfoSec. What Approva can do for them  Visibility into who is doing what in PeopleSoft & custom application  Automated approval process for role assignments  Rules-based transaction auditing Benefits to Customer  Reduce risk of fines (for insider trading)  Reduce cost leaks

9 9 Who needs this?

10 10 BizRights: How does it work?

11 11 BizRights: What are the benefits?

12 12 Q & A


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