Technical Aspect of Implementing/Upgrading SAP Security 4.6

During an SAP implementation or upgrade the security process should be involved in the planning phase to coordinate the security between processes. According to SAP R/3 Upgrade Guide a common problem is security is often thought about towards the end of an implementation/upgrade that can be too late to properly secure the system. This is a detailed process and requires significant coordination between the business processes. This paper is designed to not discuss the coordination between processes but the actual technical aspect of securing the SAP environment and, even more specifically, will discuss in detail controlling security for the SAP Release 4.0 and above.