Reimagining SAP Security: Why We Built MTC Skopos

The enterprise security market is crowded with solutions promising comprehensive risk analysis and governance. Yet for security professionals working in cross-systems environments, a persistent frustration remains: tools that are either too slow, too complex, or simply miss the mark on what practitioners actually need. This frustration led us to build MTC Skopos, a tool born from the intersection of deep SAP security consulting expertise and modern software engineering principles.

The Problem: Where Experience Meets Reality

As SAP Security Consultants and Software Architects, we've spent years navigating enterprise risk analysis complexities. In our daily work, we consistently encountered pain points that existing solutions failed to address adequately.

The most glaring issue? Performance. When conducting time-sensitive security assessments, waiting for tools to process data isn't just inconvenient—it's a barrier to effective security work.

The Technical Foundation: Why Rust Changes Everything

While most competitors chose .NET, Python, or Java using a database in-between, our decision to build MTC Skopos in Rust wasn't driven by technology trends—it was driven by results. Rust delivers the performance characteristics that security analysis demands while maintaining enterprise-grade safety and reliability.

• Performance First Rust's zero-cost abstractions and memory safety without garbage collection mean MTC Skopos runs fast and stays fast, even when processing large SAP environments with thousands of users and complex role hierarchies.

• True Portability No installation headaches, no environment variables, no library dependencies, and no elevated privileges required. MTC Skopos runs immediately, wherever you need it: a game-changer for consultants working across multiple client environments.

• Privacy by Design With local processing and no cloud dependencies for core functionality, sensitive enterprise data stays under your organization's control.

Rethinking the Economics of Security

Existing solutions use pricing models that create perverse incentives: the larger and more complex your SAP landscape, the more expensive your security tools become. For on-premises solutions especially, this makes little sense—an engine built to analyze 10 users or 1 million is fundamentally the same.

MTC Skopos challenges this approach by making risk analysis genuinely accessible. Security shouldn't be a luxury reserved for organizations with unlimited budgets. Every company running SAP deserves comprehensive risk analysis tools, regardless of environment size or complexity.

Filling the Feature Gaps

Our consulting experience revealed critical capabilities that existing solutions either lacked or implemented inadequately:

• In-Depth Simulation Real-world security scenarios require modeling complex "what-if" situations. Most tools provide basic reporting but fall short when simulating security implications of role changes or organizational restructures.

• Step-by-Step Remediation Identifying risks is only half the battle. Security professionals need clear, actionable guidance. We built detailed remediation workflows that guide users through exact steps needed to resolve security issues.

• Automated Role Design Rather than leaving role optimization as manual work, MTC Skopos automates the design process, suggesting optimal configurations based on actual usage patterns and security best practices.

Built by Practitioners, for Practitioners

What sets MTC Skopos apart isn't just its technical implementation—it's the perspective behind it. This tool was conceived, designed, and built by professionals who use security analysis tools daily. Every feature decision was informed by real-world consulting experience, every performance optimization addresses actual bottlenecks and pain points.

The Path Forward

MTC Skopos represents more than just another entry in the risk analysis market. It's a demonstration that combining deep domain expertise with modern software engineering can produce tools that are fundamentally better—not just faster or cheaper, but more aligned with how security professionals actually work.

For security professionals tired of tools that slow them down rather than speed them up, MTC Skopos offers a different path forward. One where technology serves security expertise, not the other way around.

Ready to experience the difference? Learn more about MTC Skopos or contact our team to schedule a demonstration.