Securing SAP S/4HANA

Bert Vanstechelman is a partner of and principal technical consultant at Expertum. He has more than 20 years of experience in SAP technical consulting, covering all kinds of SAP versions in combination with all possible databases and operating systems supported by SAP. Bert specializes in platform migrations, SAP release upgrades, and SAP HANA conversions. Bert is the founder of Logos Consulting, now part of Expertum. Bert is a member of the board of advisors of the SAP Professional Journal. He is the author of the SAP HANA Implementation Guide published by Espresso Tutorials. He is also the co-author, with Mark Mergaerts, of the following SAP PRESS books: Upgrading SAP, SAP NetWeaver Application Server Upgrade Guide, The OS/DB Migration Project Guide, and the mySAP ERP Upgrade Project Guide. He can be contacted at bert.vanstechelman@expertum.net.

Chris Walravens is a partner of and GRC Community Lead at Expertum. Chris became an SAP security and GRC consultant in 2000 after having worked as an IT auditor and after qualifying as a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He specializes in designing, implementing, and supporting logical access architectures adapted to your business and to your SAP landscape, combining technical SAP skills with extensive knowledge of audit, internal controls, and business processes. Chris also focuses on setting up adequate monitoring and auditing procedures, using state-of-the-art GRC applications available on the market. His multidisciplinary knowledge puts him in an ideal position to understand security business requirements, to translate them into a transparent authorizations setup, and to integrate audit and compliance requirements and internal controls principles into an overall security and internal controls architecture. He can be contacted at chris.walravens@expertum.net.

Christophe Decamps is a GRC Senior Consultant at Expertum. With seven years of experience in SAP security, Christophe has performed several implementations and access reviews and provided support for the SAP authorizations concept. Over the years, Christophe has focused on the next generation of SAP authorizations: SAP Fiori and HANA. He has held multiple training courses and presentations on those topics, including at SAPinsider events. He can be contacted at christophe.decamps@expertum.net.