CSI tools

SAP security and GRC are increasingly critical as organizations modernize from traditional SAP landscapes (HR, ERP, CRM, SCM, BW) toward SAP S/4HANA, Big Data, and cloud services, creating parallel or integrated technology pillars. Maintaining security and compliance across this continuously changing mix of SAP and non-SAP systems is driven by legal and regulatory requirements, but also by the need to protect intellectual property and sensitive business data such as financials and customer information. Forward-looking organizations treat strong security as a differentiator and embed it into processes through a broader corporate security strategy spanning areas like audit and fraud management, IAM, and risk/process management, with application and data protection at its core.

CSI tools focuses on Access Governance for SAP environments—managing users, roles, profiles, authorizations, lifecycle workflows, approvals, and recertifications—while enforcing Segregation of Duties (SoD) and least privilege. Customer expectations are shifting toward simpler deployments, cloud-first delivery models, and business-friendly usability (dashboards, rapid insights), yet many customers still run mixed SAP versions, requiring support for older releases alongside S/4HANA.

Based in Belgium, CSI tools provides external (non-SAP) applications running on Windows servers, offering both Windows client and web access. Its core suite includes CSI Authorization Auditor for deep, multi-layer authorization and SoD analysis; CSI Automated Request Engine for workflow-based access requests with SoD checks and automated fulfillment; and CSI Role Build & Manage for role lifecycle, onboarding at scale, and automated assignments. Additional capabilities include historical risk comparisons, access certification support, ITSM integration, emergency (“firefighter”) access analysis and requests, license analysis, mass user management, and transaction monitoring with reporting and alerting. CSI tools is positioned as feature-rich yet lean to deploy (even from a single PC for audits), with a modernized UI, rapid release deployment, modular packaging, and competitive pricing, while cloud-service coverage typically requires customization.

• CSI tools is a European vendor based in Belgium.
• CSI tools targets SAP Business Suite and SAP S/4HANA environments.
• The CSI tools applications run externally on Windows servers rather than inside the SAP environment.
• CSI Authorization Auditor analyzes authorization states and identifies weaknesses such as accumulated access rights and SoD conflicts.
• CSI Automated Request Engine supports access request and approval workflows with SoD checks and automated fulfillment.
• CSI Role Build & Manage supports role creation/management and automated entitlement assignments for large-scale onboarding.
• The solution supports emergency/firefighter access management, including identification of critical actions and request support.
• CSI tools can analyze SAP license usage to help optimize the number of licenses in use.
• Transaction monitoring is supported to continuously detect and alert on critical access based on defined risks and policies.
• Deployment can be done from a single PC, which is positioned as useful for initial analysis and audits without complex infrastructure.

• “Ensuring an adequate level of security and compliance for the continuously changing landscape of business systems, SAP and beyond, is of utmost importance.”
• “Beyond that, more and more organizations understand that providing an adequate level of information security and access control is a key requirement for protecting the organization’s intellectual property.”
• “Forward thinking organizations integrate strong security into all of their processes and systems which surely is a unique selling proposition for security-savvy partners and customers.”
• “At the core of such strategy is adequate protection of business applications and their data.”
• “A typical next step is the control of business-oriented processes such as applying SoD (Segregation of Duties) rules or maintaining compliance with the principle of least privilege access.”
• “Thus, simple and rapid deployment and flexible operating models such as as-a-service approaches become a core requirement of customers.”
• “Such solutions must efficiently support in managing the complexities of entitlements, roles, and SoD rules, as well as delivering rapid insight into the current state e.g. via modern dashboards.”
• “The multi-layer analysis helps in understanding and managing the full complexity of access controls and SoD controls in the target applications.”
• “At the center of the analysis are authorization objects, which map all elements and thus must be analyzed, beyond just restricting the use of transaction codes.”
• “CSI tools’ solution is an interesting alternative to other solutions for managing access controls in SAP environments, being both feature-rich and lean in deployment and operations.”