Online Course
Authorizations and Security for SAP S/4HANA
with Raghu Boddu
10/15/2025 – 11/12/2025
The course in detail:
Learn to safeguard your system with Authorizations and Security for SAP S/4HANA! Expert Raghu Boddu will guide you through foundational SAP S/4HANA security concepts, including user administration, role design, profile maintenance, and SAP Fiori authorizations. Fortify your defenses with troubleshooting and auditing best practices. Each day includes practical demonstrations to help you apply security settings, analyze authorization issues, and implement secure configurations in the SAP S/4HANA system.
What you'll learn:
- SAP S/4HANA authorization concept
- User management
- Roles and profiles
- SAP Fiori authorizations
- Troubleshooting and auditing
🕒 The courses start at 10 a.m. ET and end at 2:30 p.m. ET, breaks included.
Who is Authorizations and Security for SAP S/4HANA suitable for?
- Administrators
Prerequisite: Participants are expected to have a basic understanding of SAP ERP and/or SAP S/4HANA systems, including system architecture and navigation. Participants should also be familiar with SAP Fiori, including how users interact with it, and have a grasp of general IT security principles like access control, authentication, and auditing. If you need more information about the learning level, please feel free to ask us.
These Authorization and Security topics will be covered in this course:
- System architecture
- Transaction codes
- User defaults
- Mass user management
- Single, master/derived, and composite roles
- Profile maintenance
- SAP app library
- PAGE_BUILDER, INTEROP, etc.
- SU53, STAUTHTRACE, ST01
- Audit information systems
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Note: Can’t join live? No problem! With your purchase, you’ll receive access to the session recordings and slide decks directly on the learning platform shortly after each session concludes. Learn at your own pace, revisit key concepts, and reinforce your understanding of the topic. Whether live or on demand, this course offers you the opportunity to learn directly from one of the top SAP experts. Don’t miss out!
Online Courses
Introduction to SAP S/4HANA Security and Authorizations
Get started with a comprehensive introduction to security in SAP S/4HANA! Cover the evolution from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA from a security perspective, and then dive into the SAP S/4HANA authorization concept with an introduction to roles, profiles, authorization objects, and more. Learn about key transaction codes and SAP Fiori apps for authorizations.
Topics
- SAP S/4HANA system architecture
- Database vs. application vs. presentation layer security
- SAP S/4HANA authorization concept
- Security transaction codes
- Basics of roles, profiles, and authorization objects
- User buffer
User Management
Handle users with ease! Explore how to create and manage users and understand key concepts such as user defaults and parameters. Then, dive into mass user management; its benefits, its limitations, and the various ways you can handle mass user requests. Finally, troubleshoot user authorization issues to keep things running smoothly.
Topics:
- Users in SAP S/4HANA
- User creation
- Password policies
- User defaults
- Parameters
- Mass user management
- Troubleshooting with SU53, STAUTHTRACE, STAD, and SUIM tools
Role Management
Keep things rolling by learning to work with roles in SAP S/4HANA! Understand SAP’s default roles and profiles and see how to design roles. Learn to create single, derived, and composite roles, transport and maintain roles, and more. Then get a comprehensive look into profile maintenance, AGR tables, and enabler roles. You’ll even learn how to create custom authorization objects and use them in transaction codes.
Topics
- Default roles and profiles
- Role design and best practices
- Single, master/derived, and composite roles
- Transaction SU24
- Role transport, import, and export functionalities
- AGR tables
- Enabler roles
- Custom authorization objects
SAP Fiori Security
Secure the SAP S/4HANA frontend! Explore SAP Fiori’s unique security needs in this comprehensive session. You’ll learn to manage SAP Fiori roles and authorizations, work with key translation codes (/IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE, /Ul2/FLPD_CUST, SICF, and more), and troubleshoot errors with traces and authorization logs.
Topics:
- SAP Fiori authorizations
- SAP Fiori roles
- Base authorizations PAGE_BUILDER and INTEROP
- Transactions /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE, /UI2/FLPD_CUST and SICF
- Objects S_RFCACL and S_SERVICE
- Traces and authorization logs
- SAP Gateway and app rendering troubleshooting
Troubleshooting, Auditing, and Migration
Authorization errors and weaknesses leave your system vulnerable. Walk through general troubleshooting using SU53, STAUTHTRACE, ST01, and security tables. Get to know your audit tools, including SM19, SM20, SM21, and change logs. Finally, understand the challenges of SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration from a security perspective and explore SAP S/4HANA security best practices.
Topics:
- Authorization troubleshooting
- Audit information systems
- Change logs
- Reports
- Migration
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Your Expert
Raghu Boddu is the managing director of ToggleNow Software Solutions. He has more than 25 years of experience with SAP security, GRC, audits, and automation. Raghu is a certified information systems auditor (CISA), a certified fraud examiner (CFE), a certified data privacy solutions engineer (CDPSE), and a certified SAP security professional and GRC associate. He has served on the Information Systems Audit and Control Association state board and contributed articles, blog posts, automation stories, and vlogs to the security community.
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