GRC and cybersecurity

Integrated, automated, and embedded solutions help businesses transform governance, risk, and compliance (GRC).
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Take an integrated approach to GRC management

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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 and screening

Document and automate internal controls and third-party checks to understand risks and assess business impact.

Identify, analyze, and neutralize cyberattacks

Optimize access management and enforce data governance to detect internal and external threats and proactively protect your business.

Explore GRC and cybersecurity capabilities

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

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Centralize control and risk definition

Gain control with automation to reduce errors, enable direct risk assessment, and accelerate operational outcomes.

Automate control procedures

Shift to proactive control with deep automation and integrated risk assessment with the SAP Signavio Process Manager solution.

Address many use cases with one platform

Assess business impact in financial compliance, operational efficiency, data privacy, and other use cases.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP

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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See what analysts are saying about SAP

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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Understanding SAP’s product strategy for GRC solutions

Learn how SAP GRC solutions continue to evolve, providing customers with new innovations to deliver additional value, streamline processes, and improve the end-user experience.

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Preventing potential fraud and data irregularities across ultra-high-volume operations

Discover how you can proactively detect fraud, anomalies, and policy breaches in real time using advanced analytics.

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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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SOLUTION DEMO

Integrated risk and controls management

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

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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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