SAP GRC Training (Access Control, Process Control & Risk Management)
Own access governance in SAP: segregation of duties and the risk ruleset, Access Risk Analysis, Emergency Access Management, Business Role Management, Access Request Management with workflow, user access reviews, plus Process Control and Risk Management foundations.
SAP GRC training teaches you to implement and operate SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance, focused on Access Control. You build and maintain the segregation of duties ruleset, run Access Risk Analysis and remediation, configure Emergency Access Management (firefighter), Business Role Management and Access Request Management with MSMP workflow and BRF+ rules, run user access reviews and SoD review campaigns, and cover Process Control and Risk Management foundations. It aligns with the SAP Certified Associate Security Administrator scope.
Who this course is for
Prerequisite: Familiarity with SAP user administration and roles is helpful. Audit, compliance or security background is a strong advantage. No coding required.
What makes this different
You configure, not just watch
From the first session you are in a live SAP practice system doing the configuration yourself, with IMG paths, master data and test transactions. That is what makes it stick.
Taught on the current release
No ECC-era screenshots pretending to be current. Everything is shown on S/4HANA and the current cloud releases, including Fiori where the classic GUI screen has been replaced.
One consultant for the whole batch
One working SAP consultant teaches the full course, no rotation, so the configuration story stays consistent from first session to go-live simulation.
Support continues to the offer
Resume rewriting for SAP roles, mock interviews on real implementation scenarios, and referrals. Support does not stop when the last class ends.
SAP GRC curriculum
8 modules and 3 projects, updated to the current release. Every module maps to real SAP GRC work and expands into its full topic list, practised on a live developer instance.
SAP GRC Training (Access Control, Process Control & Risk Management) module list: 8 modules, what each one covers, and how many topics it expands into. Full topic lists are in the accordions below.
| # | Module | What you configure | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Governance, risk and compliance foundations5 hours | Explain the GRC suite architecture and configure connectors to the target systems. | 8 |
| 02 | The risk ruleset and Access Risk Analysis6 hours | Build a custom risk ruleset and run access risk analysis at user, role and profile level. | 8 |
| 03 | Remediation and mitigation5.5 hours | Design mitigating controls and remediate segregation of duties conflicts through role redesign. | 8 |
| 04 | Emergency Access Management5.5 hours | Configure Emergency Access Management and run the firefighter log review to closure. | 8 |
| 05 | Business Role Management5.5 hours | Implement Business Role Management with the role methodology and the role approval workflow. | 8 |
| 06 | Access Request Management and workflow6 hours | Configure Access Request Management with MSMP paths, BRF plus rules and provisioning. | 8 |
| 07 | Periodic reviews and compliance operations5.5 hours | Run user access review, segregation of duties review and firefighter log review campaigns. | 8 |
| 08 | Process Control and Risk Management6 hours | Explain Process Control and Risk Management configuration, testing and reporting. | 8 |
1Governance, risk and compliance foundationsModule 1 of 8 · 5 hours
Explain the GRC suite architecture and configure connectors to the target systems.
- What GRC means in an SAP context
- governance, risk and compliance objectives
- preventive versus detective controls
- access governance versus process governance
- scope of the GRC solution in a landscape
- Segregation of duties and why auditors care
- conflicting function pairs
- critical actions and critical permissions
- compensating control expectations
- risk of unchecked end to end access
- SOX, internal controls and audit findings
- control objectives and control owners
- IT general controls over access
- typical access related audit findings
- remediation evidence auditors expect
- The GRC suite: Access Control, Process Control, Risk Management, Audit Management
- Access Control capabilities ARA, EAM, ARM and BRM
- Process Control and control testing scope
- Risk Management and the risk catalogue
- shared master data across the suite
- GRC architecture and the plug-in model
- GRC server and its NetWeaver stack
- plug-in components on the target systems
- real time agent and its role
- synchronisation jobs between plug-in and GRC
- Connectors to SAP and non-SAP systems
- RFC destinations and connector definition
- connector types for ABAP and non-ABAP targets
- integration scenario assignment
- connectivity testing and troubleshooting
- Integration framework and connector groups
- logical connector groups for risk analysis
- cross system rulesets
- connector group assignment per scenario
- maintaining connectors after a landscape change
- Roles and responsibilities in a GRC programme
- risk owner and control owner
- role owner and firefighter owner
- security administrator duties
- workflow approver responsibilities
2The risk ruleset and Access Risk AnalysisModule 2 of 8 · 6 hours
Build a custom risk ruleset and run access risk analysis at user, role and profile level.
- Rulesets, functions, actions and permissions
- ruleset structure and scope
- function definition with actions
- permission level objects and field values
- rule generation from functions
- Business risks, risk levels and risk owners
- risk description and business impact
- critical, high, medium and low risk levels
- risk owner assignment
- mapping functions to a risk
- The SAP standard ruleset and why it must be customised
- delivered standard functions and risks
- custom transactions missing from the standard
- organisation specific process design
- retiring risks that do not apply
- Building and maintaining functions and risks
- adding custom transactions to a function
- maintaining authorisation objects per action
- regenerating rules after a change
- transporting ruleset changes
- Access Risk Analysis: user, role, profile and HR levels
- user level analysis and its scope
- role and profile level analysis
- HR object level analysis
- action level versus permission level results
- Simulation and what-if analysis
- simulating a role assignment to a user
- simulating a change to role content
- excluding mitigated risks from the simulation
- using simulation before provisioning
- Offline risk analysis and batch risk analysis
- batch risk analysis job scheduling
- management reports built from batch results
- offline analysis from extracted data
- spool and report retention
- Interpreting and presenting a risk report to management
- aggregating results by risk level
- separating true conflicts from noise
- trend of open versus mitigated risks
- prioritising remediation candidates
3Remediation and mitigationModule 3 of 8 · 5.5 hours
Design mitigating controls and remediate segregation of duties conflicts through role redesign.
- Remediation versus mitigation and when each applies
- removing access as the first choice
- mitigating when the access is genuinely required
- temporary versus permanent decisions
- documenting the rationale for the decision
- Role redesign to remove conflicts
- splitting composite roles
- moving conflicting transactions between roles
- derived roles for organisational separation
- re-analysis after the redesign
- Mitigating controls: design and ownership
- control description and execution frequency
- monitor and approver assignment
- detective control evidence
- criteria for control effectiveness
- Assigning mitigating controls to users and roles
- assignment at user, role and profile level
- organisation rules that scope an assignment
- mass assignment of controls
- reporting on mitigated risks
- Control monitoring and validity periods
- validity start and end dates
- notification when a control expires
- monitor task execution and evidence
- reassignment when an owner changes
- Cleaning up the ruleset over time
- retiring obsolete custom functions
- reviewing recurring false positives
- aligning the ruleset with process changes
- change control on ruleset updates
- Managing exceptions and sign-off
- exception request documentation
- risk acceptance by the risk owner
- time bound exceptions
- periodic review of open exceptions
- Measuring and reporting SoD reduction
- baseline count of open conflicts
- mitigated versus remediated split
- reporting by business process
- management dashboard for access risk
4Emergency Access ManagementModule 4 of 8 · 5.5 hours
Configure Emergency Access Management and run the firefighter log review to closure.
- Firefighter concepts: ID-based and role-based
- ID based firefighting with dedicated accounts
- role based firefighting with an assigned role
- logging differences between the two models
- choosing a model for a landscape
- Firefighter IDs, owners and controllers
- firefighter ID creation in the target system
- owner assignment and delegation
- controller assignment for log review
- assigning firefighters to an ID
- Reason codes and check-out process
- reason code maintenance
- check out through the launchpad
- session activity capture
- session duration and assignment validity
- Log collection: transaction, change and system logs
- transaction log from statistical records
- change document log
- security audit log capture
- log synchronisation job scheduling
- Log review workflow and approvals
- controller notification workflow
- review of the session activity
- comments and follow up questions to the firefighter
- closure of the review
- EAM reporting and audit evidence
- consolidated log report
- invalid firefighter assignment report
- reason code usage reporting
- retention of review evidence
- Common EAM audit findings
- firefighter logs left unreviewed
- shared firefighter credentials
- owners approving their own sessions
- assignment validity left open ended
- Operational governance of firefighter usage
- criteria for granting firefighter access
- periodic review of firefighter IDs
- monitoring usage frequency
- escalation for unusual activity
5Business Role ManagementModule 5 of 8 · 5.5 hours
Implement Business Role Management with the role methodology and the role approval workflow.
- Role methodology and phases
- definition, derivation and maintenance phases
- methodology process and steps
- configurable requirements per phase
- role status through the lifecycle
- Role definition, derivation and generation
- single, composite and derived roles
- master role and derived organisational values
- role generation into the target system
- profile generation in PFCG
- Role naming conventions and attributes
- naming convention configuration
- business process and subprocess attributes
- role sensitivity and criticality
- functional area and role owner
- Risk analysis during role build
- risk analysis at the definition phase
- blocking generation on high level risks
- assigning mitigation during the build
- documenting an accepted risk
- Role approval workflow
- MSMP workflow for role approval
- role owner and security approver stages
- condition based routing of approvals
- audit trail of approval decisions
- Mass role maintenance and role import
- role import from the target system
- mass update of role attributes
- mass derivation across organisational values
- import error handling
- Role certification and periodic review
- role content review campaigns
- certification by the role owner
- removal of unused roles
- recertification scheduling
- Aligning BRM with PFCG reality
- role synchronisation jobs from target systems
- reconciling attribute differences
- handling roles changed directly in PFCG
- governance that prevents bypass
6Access Request Management and workflowModule 6 of 8 · 6 hours
Configure Access Request Management with MSMP paths, BRF plus rules and provisioning.
- Access request types and request forms
- new, change and delete request types
- template based requests
- request form field configuration
- mandatory attribute settings
- End-user personalisation and templates
- end user logon and request submission
- personalisation settings per request type
- role search and selection by the requester
- request templates for common job profiles
- MSMP workflow: paths, stages and routing
- process global settings
- path and stage configuration
- notification and escalation settings
- routing rules for exception handling
- BRF+ rules for initiator and agent determination
- initiator rules that select a path
- agent rules that determine approvers
- routing and notification rules
- decision tables in BRF plus
- Approver determination and escalation
- manager and role owner approvers
- the security stage approval
- escalation on approver inactivity
- delegation and substitution
- Risk analysis during the approval flow
- risk analysis at request submission
- approver visibility of the conflicts
- mitigation assigned inside the request
- blocking provisioning on unmitigated risk
- Provisioning: auto, manual and hybrid
- auto provisioning configuration
- manual provisioning tasks for the administrator
- provisioning at request or at stage level
- provisioning logs and failure handling
- Request reporting and SLA monitoring
- request status reporting
- aging and stage duration reports
- audit trail per request
- reporting on rejected requests
7Periodic reviews and compliance operationsModule 7 of 8 · 5.5 hours
Run user access review, segregation of duties review and firefighter log review campaigns.
- User access review (UAR) campaigns
- review coordinator setup
- request generation for reviewers
- approve and reject decisions
- removal of rejected access
- SoD review campaigns
- review of open risk violations
- the risk owner as reviewer
- mitigate or remove decisions
- campaign result reporting
- Firefighter log review campaigns
- controller based log review
- scheduling of review cycles
- tracking outstanding reviews
- sign off evidence
- Reviewer assignment and coordinators
- manager based reviewer determination
- role owner based reviewer determination
- coordinator reassignment of items
- handling reviewers who have left
- Reminders, escalation and completion tracking
- reminder notification schedules
- escalation to the next level
- completion percentage monitoring
- closing an incomplete campaign
- Evidence retention and audit packs
- storing campaign results
- linking decisions to provisioning actions
- retention of review evidence
- assembling an audit pack
- Continuous compliance versus point-in-time review
- batch risk analysis as continuous monitoring
- alerting on new violations
- choosing a review cycle frequency
- combining both approaches
- Dashboards and management reporting
- access risk dashboards
- campaign progress reporting
- trend reporting across periods
- reporting by business unit
8Process Control and Risk ManagementModule 8 of 8 · 6 hours
Explain Process Control and Risk Management configuration, testing and reporting.
- Process Control: organisations, processes and controls
- organisation hierarchy setup
- process and subprocess catalogue
- control definition and attributes
- assignment of controls to organisations
- Control design, testing and effectiveness
- design assessment planning
- effectiveness test plans and steps
- manual test execution and sampling
- evaluation of test results
- Automated control monitoring with data sources
- data source definition
- business rules built on a data source
- job scheduling for continuous monitoring
- exception generation from a rule
- Issue and remediation management
- issue creation from a failed test
- remediation plan assignment
- issue status tracking
- closure and validation of remediation
- Risk Management: risk catalogue and hierarchy
- risk categories and hierarchy
- activity and driver definition
- impact and consequence catalogue
- assignment of risks to organisations
- Risk identification, analysis and response
- risk survey and workshop input
- qualitative and quantitative analysis
- response types accept, mitigate and transfer
- response plan tracking
- Key risk indicators and thresholds
- indicator definition and data source
- threshold and tolerance setting
- monitoring frequency per indicator
- alerts on a threshold breach
- Reporting to the audit committee
- risk heat map reporting
- control effectiveness summary
- open issue reporting
- period over period comparison
Configure a connector, extend the ruleset with custom functions and risks, run access risk analysis over a finance user population, remediate what can be removed through role redesign, mitigate the remainder with documented controls, then route a new access request through MSMP with risk analysis inside the approval flow.
How this course covers the C_SEC_2405 exam blueprint.
| Exam area | Weight | Covered in |
|---|---|---|
| GRC architecture, connectors and integration | - | Module 1 |
| Access risk analysis and the risk ruleset | - | Module 2 |
| Remediation and mitigating controls | - | Module 3 |
| Emergency Access Management | - | Module 4 |
| Business role management and access request management | - | Module 5, Module 6 |
| Compliance operations and the wider GRC suite | - | Module 7, Module 8 |
Not covered: SAP Identity Management and Identity Access Governance provisioning; SAP Audit Management configuration; ABAP development of custom BRF plus function modules.
Curriculum version 2026-09-01 · approved by mohsin
What you'll be able to do
Real projects you'll build
Interview-ready scenarios on a live instance, not toy demos.
SoD analysis and remediation plan
Run a full access risk analysis on a sample landscape, quantify the conflicts by risk level, and produce a remediation and mitigation plan with owners and timelines.
Access request workflow build
Configure an access request path with MSMP stages, BRF+ agent determination, risk analysis at approval and automated provisioning, then test it end to end.
Firefighter implementation
Set up firefighter IDs with owners, controllers and reason codes, execute a privileged session, then run and review the log workflow as the controller would.
Certification and hands-on
Every session runs in a live SAP practice system, so you configure and test rather than watch. The course maps to C_SEC_2405, SAP Certified Associate, Security Administrator (with GRC Access Control scope), and finishes with an IT Canvass certificate plus a certification roadmap. IT Canvass does not issue the official SAP credential.
SAP certification is role-based and delivered through SAP Learning. Most exams sit at Associate level (implementation or development consultant for a specific solution), with Specialist exams for narrower scopes and Professional exams for architects and experienced consultants. Exams are booked through SAP Certification Hub or as a single exam; SAP re-versions exams with each release, so always confirm the current code before booking.
Certification facts. Vendor figures change, so confirm against the official SAP catalogue before booking.
| Exam code | C_SEC_2405 |
|---|---|
| Credential | SAP Certified Associate, Security Administrator (with GRC Access Control scope) |
| Issued by | SAP SE (not by IT Canvass) |
| Exam duration | 180 minutes |
| Exam cost | US$560 single exam, or included in a SAP Learning Hub subscription |
| Prerequisite | No formal prerequisite. SAP recommends hands-on project exposure before the exam. |
| What IT Canvass issues | An IT Canvass course completion certificate and a certification roadmap |
Tools and transactions you will actually use
The screens and apps you will have open every day in this role. You practise in each of them during the course.
The GRC interface where access management, reports and campaigns are run.
User, role and simulation-level analysis, the report that drives every remediation conversation.
Workflow configuration and rule determination, the technical heart of access request management.
Firefighter check-out, log collection and the controller review workflow.
Role maintenance in the connected system, because GRC governs roles that ultimately live in PFCG.
Risk violation counts, mitigation coverage and campaign completion, the numbers management and audit ask for.
Your SAP GRC career roadmap
Five stages on the governance, risk and people side of SAP, with indicative 2026 bands.
Salary snapshot: SAP GRC Consultant
Indicative ranges aggregated from public salary data. Actual pay varies by location, employer and experience.
A day in the life of a SAP GRC Consultant
What the job is really like once you are in it, so you know what you are training for.
Who hires SAP people
GRC demand is driven by audit and regulation rather than project cycles, which makes it unusually stable. It also pairs well with an SAP security role, and many consultants hold both.
Employer types and named companies are shown as examples of where this skill is used.
How IT Canvass compares
Against a typical training provider, this SAP GRC course is taught on the current SAP release rather than recycled ECC material, gives you hands-on time in a live practice system from the first session, and keeps one working consultant for the whole batch instead of rotating trainers. Every module is mapped to the C_SEC_2405 scope, sessions are recorded with lifetime access, and job support (resume rewriting for SAP roles, mock interviews and referrals) is included in one transparent fee. Most providers still teach screen-by-screen navigation with no configuration practice, and bill system access, support and recordings as add-ons.
Fees and training modes
Choose how you want to learn SAP GRC. No-cost EMI available on all modes.
Interactive live batches, weekday or weekend, with the full cohort and lifetime recordings.
Private one-on-one coaching at your pace, whether you need interview-ready fast or hands-on help with your current project.
Learn on your own time with recorded sessions, labs and Q&A doubt support.
Train your team on SAP GRC Training (Access Control, Process Control & Risk Management)
Tailored curriculum, flexible scheduling, a dedicated SAP consultant, and progress reporting for your managers. Delivered live online or on-site for cohorts of any size, with practice-system access for every learner.
Your trainer
Arjun, SAP Solution Architect, 14+ years
I still deliver S/4HANA implementations and rollouts for manufacturing and retail clients, so I teach from the configuration decisions and cutover problems that are live this quarter, not from a slide deck. In class I show the IMG path, the master data behind it, and the test transaction that proves it works.
Learner reviews
The ruleset module is the one that matters. Learning to customise functions and risks rather than accepting the SAP standard changed how I work.
MSMP and BRF+ are usually taught as a black box. Here I built a working path from scratch and understood every stage.
As an auditor I now understand what to ask for and what good evidence looks like. The firefighter review section was worth the whole course.
Fees, batches and policies
The questions people actually ask before enrolling, answered plainly.
What is the total fee and what does it include?
What are the batch timings, and do they work outside India?
What happens if I miss a session?
How long do I keep access to the recordings?
Is there a refund if the course is not right for me?
Is the certificate issued by SAP?
SAP GRC FAQs
Is GRC the same as SAP security?
Do I need to be an auditor?
Which GRC version is taught?
Does this cover Process Control and Risk Management?
Which certification does this map to?
Is there hands-on access?
Free SAP GRC tutorials to read first
Start with these free lessons, then bring your questions to class.