Stop SoD Violations Before They Happen

Also known as segregation-of-duties, SoD is a fundamental security principle that prevents any single individual from having complete control over critical business processes. By dividing sensitive tasks among multiple people, organizations reduce the risk of fraud, errors, and unauthorized activities.

For example, the same person shouldn't be able to both create a vendor in your financial system and approve payments to that vendor. SoD violations create "toxic combinations" of access that enable fraud and represent significant compliance risks. Regulations like SOX, PCI DSS, and HIPAA mandate SoD controls, and audit failures can result in financial penalties, loss of certifications, and reputational damage.

Saviynt Identity Cloud aggregates identity, access, and entitlement data from all connected applications into a centralized identity warehouse. This unified view allows our platform to correlate permissions across different systems and detect SoD conflicts that span application boundaries — something traditional point solutions cannot do. For instance, if a user has payment approval rights in your ERP system and vendor creation privileges in your procurement application, Saviynt identifies this cross-application risk.

Detective controls identify SoD violations after they've been provisioned, typically through periodic access reviews or certification campaigns. While important, detective controls are reactive — the risky access already exists. Preventive controls stop SoD violations before they happen by evaluating access requests in real-time against SoD policies.

Saviynt provides segregation of duties preventive and detective controls. Our preventive engine blocks requests that would create conflicts during the provisioning workflow, while our detective capabilities continuously monitor existing access and flag violations for remediation. This dual approach — preventing new violations while systematically cleaning up existing ones — provides the most effective SoD risk management.

Absolutely. Saviynt provides out-of-the-box SoD rulesets for major enterprise applications, including SAP (ECC and S/4HANA), Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Cloud, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Workday, ServiceNow, and many others. These pre-built SoD rules are based on industry best practices and common regulatory requirements, enabling rapid deployment while reducing the need for extensive policy configuration. Saviynt also supports custom rule creation for proprietary applications or unique business scenarios, giving you complete flexibility in defining what constitutes an SoD violation in your environment.

Not all SoD violations pose equal risk, and trying to remediate everything at once is neither practical nor strategic. Saviynt uses AI-powered risk analytics to help you prioritize intelligently. Our platform considers multiple factors, including access sensitivity levels, actual usage patterns, user behavior, business context, and historical activity.

For example, a user with conflicting financial permissions who actively uses both is higher risk than someone with dormant access they never utilize. Saviynt's risk scoring identifies violations that represent genuine threats versus theoretical risks, enabling you to focus remediation efforts where they'll have the greatest impact. This intelligence also helps you justify risk acceptance decisions to auditors when certain violations serve legitimate business needs with appropriate compensating controls.