SAP systems serve as the operational core for many enterprises, handling critical financial, procurement, and human resource processes. Unfortunately, this makes them a prime target for fraudulent activities that can lead to significant financial loss, regulatory penalties, and reputational damage. Detecting fraud within SAP environments requires specialized tools and strategies tailored to the intricacies of SAP systems. SAP Enterprise Threat Detection (SAP ETD) offers advanced capabilities to identify and respond to fraudulent behavior effectively.
Fraudulent activities in SAP systems can take many forms, including:
Because SAP systems support numerous complex business workflows, detecting fraud involves uncovering subtle anomalies hidden within legitimate activities.
SAP ETD provides a centralized platform for collecting, correlating, and analyzing security-relevant data from SAP systems in real time. It empowers security and compliance teams to detect fraud through the following approaches:
SAP ETD baselines normal user and system behavior, enabling the detection of deviations that may indicate fraudulent activities. For example, an employee suddenly accessing high-value transactions or modifying vendor master data outside business hours can trigger alerts.
Fraud often involves multiple steps and systems. SAP ETD correlates logs and events from various SAP modules, user actions, and even network data to detect complex fraud patterns that single-source monitoring might miss.
Custom detection rules, often leveraging Regular Expressions (Regex), can identify suspicious transaction codes, unauthorized access to critical tables, or unusual changes in authorization roles. For instance, detecting the execution of transactions like F110 (automatic payments) by unauthorized users can highlight potential fraud.
SAP ETD can monitor and alert on SoD violations, where users possess conflicting roles or execute incompatible transactions, a common indicator of fraud risk.
Detecting fraudulent activities in SAP systems is a complex but vital task to protect enterprise assets and maintain trust. SAP Enterprise Threat Detection offers robust, real-time detection capabilities tailored to SAP’s unique environment, enabling organizations to uncover and respond to fraud effectively. By integrating SAP ETD into their security and compliance frameworks, enterprises can strengthen fraud prevention, reduce risks, and uphold the integrity of their SAP operations.