GRC and cybersecurity

Integrated, automated, and embedded solutions help businesses transform governance, risk, and compliance (GRC).
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Elevate your GRC strategy

SAP’s GRC and cybersecurity solutions integrate with your mission-critical systems and processes to help you continuously monitor risks, identities, cyberthreats, and compliance.

Embed controls, compliance, and risk management

Drive organizational resilience and regulatory compliance with integrated and automated risk-aware governance.

Optimize identity and access governance

Automate governance by giving employees the applications and services they need without exposing data and processes to unauthorized use.

Proactively protect your critical data and applications

Identify and detect cyberattacks with real-time application-level monitoring of threats and vulnerabilities.

GRC and cybersecurity assistants

Governance, risk, and compliance assistants orchestrate AI agents that complete control, compliance, and risk tasks quickly and consistently across business processes.

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Governance Assistant

The Governance Assistant helps governance, risk, and compliance departments monitor business risks, streamline compliance requirements, and surface actionable insights related to controls and access issues.

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Establish and manage risks, controls, data protection, and the secure use of your business applications.

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Control and risk management

Ensure compliance and resilience in an ever-evolving regulatory and risk environment.

Risk and control process optimization in the cloud

Document and link risks and internal controls, automate controls, and assess business impact.

Integrated, automated, and risk-aware governance

Establish clear ownership along the three lines of defense with task assignments to help prevent critical incidents.

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Screening

Protect business integrity and reduce risk exposure by avoiding suspicious transactions with high-risk third parties.

Business partner screening

Improve vendor compliance with automated screening against restricted or denied party lists.

Anomalous activity identification

Mitigate fraud risk, reduce losses, and improve the detection and prevention of anomalies.

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Access governance

Streamline and simplify identity and access management across applications.

Access authorization governance in the cloud

Improve identity and access management with an intuitive, dashboard-driven interface and a simplified experience in the cloud.

Access control automation and governance enforcement

Streamline user access by automating user provisioning and certifying access to on-premises and private cloud applications.

Single sign-on (SSO) service

Boost productivity by eliminating the need to perform separate login procedures for each application.

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Cybersecurity

Monitor and improve security to help keep systems secure in a continuously changing cyberthreat environment.

External and internal cybersecurity threat detection

Identify and deter cyberattacks with real-time application-level monitoring of threats and vulnerabilities.

Activity and content logging

Reduce data abuse risks and strengthen data protection with clear visibility into user activity.

Dynamic sensitive information masking

Support compliant, secure business operations across SAP interfaces using masking, blocking, and contextual authorization.

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Fraud prevention and data anomaly detection

Learn how Tata Steel screens large volumes of data across SAP and third-party systems with near-real-time alerts for exceptions.

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Driving growth, innovation, and compliance

adesso SE is bolstering its security framework, managing and reducing risks, and improving business process efficiency.

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Strengthening Austria’s critical infrastructure

OMV AG increased visibility across its SAP applications to support real-time threat detection and immediate action on alerts.

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SAP recognized a Leader across critical GRC categories

Learn why Chartis Research believes SAP solutions provide the support businesses need to achieve their GRC goals.

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SAP named a Leader by Gartner®

Explore why Gartner named SAP as a Leader in its 2025 Magic Quadrant™ report for Cloud ERP Finance.

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Featured resources

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What Risks to Look Out for in 2026 

Explore the top 10 business threats related to geopolitics, artificial intelligence, cyber and physical security, and more.

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Regulatory Outlook 2026 and Onwards

Learn about the key compliance areas that require attention due to new or more-stringent mandates.

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Why GRC matters for growing businesses

Companies of all sizes face risks and must comply with regulatory frameworks. Learn how GRC can help midsize companies achieve their objectives and thrive in a complex business landscape.

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What's New in SAP GRC for SAP HANA

Discover the new evolution of SAP GRC solutions and your path to a future-proof GRC platform.

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Integrated risk and controls management

Discover how to improve compliance, optimize audit resource use, and mitigate risk more efficiently with SAP GRC solutions.

Frequently asked questions

SAP governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) is a comprehensive suite of cohesive and modular solutions designed to help companies implement an integrated framework to align objectives, manage risks, and ensure adherence to regulations and internal policies.

With an extended suite of solutions, SAP GRC capabilities cover all deployment models: On premises, cloud, and hybrid.

SAP GRC solutions are a comprehensive suite of cohesive and modular applications integrated with SAP S/4HANA and organized around four pillars: Enterprise risk and compliance, identity and access governance, cybersecurity and data protection, and international trade management.

SAP Access Control is an application within the SAP GRC suite of solutions. It enables an organization to control access, identify risk, and document compliance. SAP GRC solutions also cover other functional areas supporting an end-to-end comprehensive GRC framework such as enterprise risk and compliance, cybersecurity and data protection, and international trade management.

SAP security measures are designed to meet the highest standards for cybersecurity, operations, and privacy protection tailored to the individual needs of our customers. SAP manages security and compliance risks and operates cybersecurity and physical security programs across cloud environments, facilities, events, and employees.

 

SAP GRC solutions include capabilities for cybersecurity and data protection to help companies implement security frameworks for their own organizations.

 

SAP GRC solutions are integrated with SAP S/4HANA and available with additional licensing.

SAP Enterprise Threat Detection is one application within the SAP GRC suite. It provides critical security information and event management capabilities that use real-time intelligence to help enforce data governance and detect external and internal cybersecurity threats.

 

SAP GRC solutions also cover other functional areas supporting an end-to-end comprehensive GRC framework such as enterprise risk and compliance, identity and access governance, cybersecurity and data protection, and international trade management.

The SAP GRC solutions associated with cybersecurity and data protection help organizations protect the applications that run their business. They also offer additional applications supporting an end-to-end comprehensive GRC framework such as enterprise risk and compliance, identity and access governance, and international trade management to help customers establish and manage risks, controls, data protection, and the secure use of their business applications.

 

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP Finance, Mike Helsel, Irmina Melarkode, Nick Duffy, Nisha Bhandare, 27 October 2025.

 

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