TIRU Improves Operational Risk Management with ControlPanelGRC®

Leading waste recovery company is the first to benefit from partnership between Symmetry and Harmonie Technologie by deploying access controls to reduce SoD and GDPR risks 

BROOKFIELD, Wisconsin and PARIS, Aug. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Symmetry, a leader in enterprise application management, hybrid cloud hosting and GRC solutions, today announced it has opened its doors to the French market for the first time with its ControlPanelGRC solution to manage SAP operational risks for TIRU, a Dalkia subsidiary of EDF Group. TIRU, a specialist in the recovery of materials and waste energy, has deployed Symmetry's ControlPanelGRC® software suite to modernize its governance, risk and compliance controls (GRC), segregation of duties (SoD), and user management for its SAP environment and aligned to its corporate business requirements. TIRU is the first organization to benefit from Symmetry and Harmonie Technologie's partnership for access controls and data protection for SAP environments.

For the project scoping, vendor selection and implementation, TIRU worked with Harmonie Technologie, an independent consulting firm in the fields of risk management and cybersecurity. The deployment with TIRU is the first customer engagement based on a partnership between Symmetry and Harmonie Technologie to offer ControlPanelGRC as a preferred GRC solution to Harmonie Technologie's customers in order to meet the challenges of professional data protection and personal data (GDPR) managed in their customers' SAP systems.

TIRU approached Harmonie Technologie with a project to redesign access rights to its SAP system. The primary objectives were to define new SAP roles and align them with business needs while ensuring proper segregation of duties and administering access controls. After defining the project scope and roadmap, TIRU worked with Harmonie Technologie to review various solutions and selected ControlPanelGRC based on its functionality, simple installation, ease of use and budget.  

"Harmonie Technologie has supported us end-to-end with the integration of Symmetry's ControlPanelGRC to overhaul all of our SAP roles and to remediate against SoD risks. I particularly appreciated the Harmonie Technologie team's technical skills. In addition to the quality of the work achieved and the superior outcomes, they enabled the domain managers and site managers to collaborate, which greatly facilitated the adoption of the project," said Véronique Chamard, head of TIRU's IT department. "We are also delighted that the solution delivered on its original promise: speedy integration and simple customizing. Not only have we augmented our security and efficiency in identifying SoD risks and solving them, but we have also automated and secured the creation and modification of new roles – composites, derivatives and parents."