Challenges associated with Role Management

Lack of Centralized Role Documentation and Audit Readiness
Many organizations lack a centralized repository for role documentation, including change history, approvals, and design rationale.

Role Complexity
Designing roles that balance operational needs and security compliance is inherently complex. Over time, roles often become bloated with unnecessary permissions, leading to "role creep" and increased security risks.

Scalability and Adaptability Challenges
As organizations grow and implement new applications or business processes, existing SAP role structures may not scale efficiently or adapt to new requirements.

Segregation of Duties (SoD) Conflicts
SoD conflicts occur when a single user has permissions that could allow them to perform incompatible tasks, such as creating and approving payments.

Inefficient Role Provisioning and Deprovisioning
Manual provisioning and deprovisioning processes are time-consuming and often result in delays. Additionally, deprovisioning errors can leave users with unnecessary or unauthorized access after they change roles or leave the organization.
Pathlock’s Role Management solution provides a robust, intuitive role-building tool for your business applications. It enables you to evaluate the audit readiness and effectiveness of existing roles while designing new ones that meet compliance standards through advanced simulations and "what-if" analyses. With its fine-grained role design capabilities, the solution ensures roles dynamically align with access policies, fostering both security and compliance.
Key Role Management Features

Fine Grained Role Design
The capability to define permissions with precision at the most granular levels, leveraging actual usage data down to the function level, to minimize risk effectively.

Role Simulation
Enables you to simulate risks and thoroughly test roles before deploying them to production.



Continuous Role Monitoring
Provides continuous monitoring of organizational structure changes within your business applications and ERP systems.


Simple SAP Integration
Supports on-premise implementation for SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP Ariba, SAP BW, and SAP SRM.

Broad Application Support
Offers support for over 85 business applications through a single, unified interface, with the option to integrate additional Pathlock modules for eliminating risks at the role level.