Upgrading your Identity Security Program with Modernized Identity Governance
Related Resources:
Saviynt Identity Cloud Solution Guide
IGA Buyer’s Guide
The Increasing Importance of Application Access Governance
SAP Identity Management (IDM) has been a staple for organizations in managing identity security to critical SAP applications. Recently, SAP has announced that end-of-life for IDM will occur in 2027 with the end of standard support - with extended maintenance available until 2030 at a marked up rate.
Unfortunately, there isn’t an equivalent replacement currently planned. And SAP Cloud Identity - comprised of SAP IAG, IPS, IAS, and IDS - does not deliver the capabilities IDM possesses and is not a viable central identity governance solution.
A Good Time to Reassess Your Identity Security Program
With only a little over two years until IDM is effectively wound down, now is the perfect time for organizations to begin looking into how they can address their identity governance and administration needs. Identity security has dramatically changed since SAP first released IDM. Business models and operations have transformed as organizations continue to adopt cloud-based solutions. The number of line of business (LoB) applications being adopted has also increased. These changes have fostered security program complexity and organizations have had to add additional resources to manage the rise in workforce, external, and non-human identities, as well as the different security models of non-SAP applications.
The Identity Defined Security Alliance found that 52% of security leaders cite the adoption of more cloud applications as the primary factor of the increasing number of identities within their organization.
Converged identity platforms, such as Saviynt’s Identity Cloud, provide more flexibility and extensibility to radically simplify overall security program management. Not only do converged platforms combine multiple identity security capabilities – such as identity governance and administration (IGA), application access governance (AAG), and privileged access management (PAM), but they are able to support a limitless number of applications, regardless of vendor or deployment method.
Migration Considerations
As you begin investigating replacing IDM, it’s important to reassess your business and technical requirements. Replacing IDM with a new solution requires careful evaluation. Do you want to move forward with multiple point solutions that address only certain capabilities that IDM delivered, or does it make sense to centralize as much as possible to aid with management, productivity, and costs? How will you address updates and the migration of business roles, workflows, policy enforcement, and integrations? How do you handle other customizations you’ve made in the past?
SAP IDM Migration Strategy
- Evaluate – Determine new requirements by assessing your existing application and identity landscape and how it may evolve in the future
- Explore – Conduct research and evaluate solutions to understand their capabilities, roadmap, and fit for your needs
- Establish (a Plan) – Create a transition plan that accounts for challenges that may arise, such as role and workflow adjustments
Converting from SAP IDM to Saviynt’s Identity Cloud
For organizations making the move to the cloud via S4/HANA and looking to maintain strong identity security, The Identity Cloud from Saviynt is the ideal choice to secure critical data and maintain proper access controls with industry-leading identity security capabilities for SAP and hybrid environments.
The converged capabilities The Identity Cloud delivers, including IGA, AAG, and PAM, help dramatically simplify identity security program management. Coverage includes all identities, workforce, external, and non-human identities, via a single, converged platform. They reduce security business disruptions, increase efficiency, and ensure and demonstrate compliance. A key differentiator is the support for any identity, workload, or application, regardless of location or environment.
Additionally, the platform’s appGRC capabilities mean SAP shops can adopt one solution to support access governance for the wide range of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other critical applications organizations now employ to conduct business, not just SAP. The design eliminates silos and reduces implementation times, management costs, and administrator burnout. With fine-grained integrations, Saviynt supports all levels of authorizations and access controls, even down to SAP transaction codes (tcodes), and is not constrained to high-level business role views other IGA solutions provide. Deep integrations also allow for cross-application risk visibility to effectively prevent and detect cross-application segregation of duties (SoD) as well as continuous controls monitoring.
At the end of the day, Saviynt accelerates SAP business transformations, providing comprehensive identity security with simplified deployments, governance, and management of any identity, for any application.
Benefits of Moving to Saviynt’s Identity Cloud
- Eliminate silos and streamline your identity security program
- Reduce application onboarding times by up to 70%
- Embedded intelligence providing up to 95% access prediction accuracy
- appGRC for any application, not just SAP
Saviynt and our global partners can help develop your migration strategy to ensure program continuity as you modernize your identity security program. Reach out today to learn more about The Identity Cloud from Saviynt and how we can help.
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