Pillars of Control

AIMS

Establish strict rules for user provisioning, role assignments, and regular reviews.

Prevent uncontrolled user growth and ensure that every active account is properly licensed.

Usage Monitoring and Licensing Compliance:
- Track both direct and indirect usage (e.g., integrations, bots) in real time.
- Identify discrepancies relative to purchased entitlements early to avoid unexpected costs.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC):
- Develop clear policies and processes to ensure ongoing compliance with Oracle licensing and security standards.
- Implement regular audits and monitoring measures for a proactive control framework.
Change and Configuration Management:
- Document and control any modifications to the environment such as updates to user roles or system configurations.
- Ensure that changes align with licensing agreements and business requirements.
Contractual and Financial Oversight:
- Continuously align actual SaaS usage with contractual terms.
- Negotiate safeguards and conduct periodic contract reviews to prevent cost overruns.
Security and Data Controls:
- Enforce both physical and logical security measures to protect sensitive data and ensure system integrity.
- Follow Oracle’s recommended security policies to mitigate potential risks in the cloud environment.

These pillars together help maintain control over your Oracle Fusion SaaS investments, ensuring that technological decisions, user activities, and contract obligations remain in sync.

Secure+ Strategy

Implementation of Audit & Control Measures for Oracle Fusion SaaS with Secure+

Objective

To establish a robust framework for managing Oracle Fusion SaaS investments, preventing over-subscription, ensuring compliance, strengthening data security, and optimizing service usage through automated auditing and control mechanisms—leveraging Secure+ for enhanced visibility and management.

Strategy

Security Optimization
- Implement best-practice security rules before going live.
- Utilize Secure+ for tracking role assignment changes and understanding embedded privileges.
- Use Secure+ snapshots to compare security configurations over time.
Automated Audit & Monitoring
- Enable auditing for key business objects and attributes.
- Generate reports on user access, sensitive transactions, and configuration changes.
- Utilize Secure+ to track policy changes and privilege allocation across users.
Configuration Control
- Track modifications in financial and procurement roles.
- Leverage Secure+ to compare roles and privileges across different snapshots for audit purposes.
Data Security Review
- Assess existing security policies to ensure compliance with industry standards.
- Review role-based access controls using Secure+ to eliminate unnecessary permissions.
- Conduct regular penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities.
Service Usage & Subscription Control
- Utilize Oracle’s published metrics to track privileges that trigger service usage.
- Monitor hierarchical role assignments using Secure+ to identify embedded privileges affecting subscription charges.
- Generate reports on service consumption trends using Secure+ to optimize licensing costs.
- Implement proactive tracking with Secure+ for unexpected service usage spikes.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

KPI	Metric
Audit Compliance Rate	Percentage of security roles compliant with best practices.
Incident Resolution Time	Average time taken to resolve audit findings.
Configuration Change Alerts	Number of high-risk modifications flagged and reviewed.
Service Usage Efficiency	Percentage of assigned privileges actively triggering service consumption.
Subscription Cost Optimization	Reduction in unnecessary service charges through privilege control with Secure+.
Secure+ Utilization Rate	Percentage of security configurations and role assignments reviewed through Secure+.

With Secure+ integrated, your strategy benefits from tracking, reporting, and analysis, reducing risks and optimizing costs while simplifying auditing.