Challenges
- A manual process to review access control violations in R12 prolonged remediation of violated access policies
- No way to review access controls for the third-party cash receipts application used by departments across the university
- No method to detect or track changes to key application setup controls and master data in a timely way
- No way to systematically monitor transaction data for funds and grant programmes to ensure compliance with federal regulations and donor requests
Results
- Proactively monitored the Oracle E-Business Suite R12 environment for access policy violations, preventing errors, misuse, abuse and fraud
- Significantly reduced the time and resource needed to detect and remediate access policy violations
- Reduced time and resource for testing during periodic reviews
- Proactively detected and mitigated issues with cash entry and authorisation across departments
- Monitored unauthorised changes to critical configurations and operational data, and managed configurations through upgrade, implementation and ongoing maintenance
- Mitigated exposure to error, misuse and fraud from out-of-policy business transactions
- Ensured ongoing compliance with donor and federal government fund and grant accounts