Security and your ERP System

The balance between making data available to the users that need it and denying it from those who should not have access is not easy to achieve. To manage this risk your company needs to implement an appropriate access strategy. Do not wait for an embarrassing – and potentially devastating – event to find out that security and controls in your ERP system are inadequate and constitute exposure for your company.

Consider the following security issues:

Are you certain that sensitive information cannot be displayed to unintended users?
Can critical functions only be performed by the right people in your organization?
Does your ERP system give your users access to all the relevant information, to make the optimum decisions?
Do your E-Commerce requirements have a security plan developed?
Are you confident that you have appropriate security and control over your data?
Will you comply with external and internal audit requirements?
Will you eliminate the disclosure of confidential information?
How reliable is your network and ERP system

Managing the security of ERP information into and out of your organization has never been more critical – or more challenging. As businesses grow, their information systems support whole communities of users: customers, suppliers, partners and employees, who all count on the secure exchange of a wide variety of information to place orders, pay bills and keep records up to date.

Customers, vendors, partners and employees all need access to the right ERP information at the right time and, increasingly, from anywhere. Yet these users work on many different systems and access data from multiple locations. All have different passwords and authorizations.

Initiatives like on-line order-tracking to improve customer service, e-procurement to reduce costs or integrate supplier systems, and virtual private networks to provide information access anytime, anywhere are additional factors that have increased the need for ERP security. Increased outsider access to ERP systems. You must not only manage the security issues of your own employees, but also increasingly those of customers, suppliers and other business partners.

Seradex ERP along with Windows 2003 Server addresses your security needs in authentication, access control and user management. An integrated solution identifies the user, determines what the user can do, determines the level of trust the user should receive, protects your data.

Our ERP security specialists have the expertise, tools and methodologies to make sure that your Seradex ERP system includes a tailored, cost-effective security approach that dovetails with your firewall, virus scanner, spam control and tape backup systems.