Many companies work with an incomplete and non-comprehensive assignment concept for their roles and authorizations. Their maintenance is often still done manually, historically grown roles and responsibilities are not touched, the rights of individual users are not controlled, workflows are not clearly defined.
However, the manual assignment of roles and authorizations hardly does justice to the complexity of IT systems in modern companies. Under such circumstances, which easily arise from changes in day-to-day business, SoD conflicts quickly creep in. This gives rise to potential compliance violations that can be very expensive for the company.
A regularly maintained, holistic and complete role and authorization concept, on the other hand, contains transparent and clear rules that can largely rule out such conflicts. It ensures that all basic rules of compliance are adhered to within a centralized role and authorization assignment. More compliance means more security for the entire company.
Your software is also included in the authorization concept: Who has access rights to which programs, who uses which applications and resources? This is not only relevant to prevent data leaks and misuse of information, but also ensures that you always have an overview of what kind of licenses you need for which programs so that your employees can do their jobs. However, in the spirit of economy and efficiency, you certainly want to avoid over-licensing: So the possibility of good software license management is a positive side effect of a clean and structured authorization and role concept.