HR professionals have increasing responsibilities for the security of HR data. Explore the basic authorization objects you as an HR person need to know, and learn how these objects affect users and what they are allowed to access. Walk through key HR security concepts, including structural authorizations and the close integration with general authorization by way of the context sensitive authorization solution. Learn how to assess HR user access without the need for custom reports by using SAP delivered tools. Take a look at how employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS) portals, assigned system transactions, and table access affect core SAP ERP HCM and overall HR landscape security. Take a look at why key transactions such as SE16 and SE38 should be reviewed by HR and checked to prevent backdoor access to sensitive data.