Governance & Identity Security for the Automotive Sector
Automotive organizations operate under layered regulatory obligations and complex identity landscapes spanning production systems, supply chains, and financial services. NEXIS addresses both from a single platform.
Automotive Compliance and Security Pressures Are Converging
OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and automotive financial services companies face simultaneous obligations from TISAX, UN R155, ISO/SAE 21434, NIS2, ISO 27001, and GDPR. These requirements apply across engineering systems, enterprise IT, supplier ecosystems, and regulated financial processes. At the same time, identity landscapes are becoming harder to govern. Employees, contractors, suppliers, and service providers need access to ERP, PLM, MES, SAP, and cloud systems across business units and plant environments. Compliance is no longer a project with a deadline. It is a permanent operational state.
Where Automotive Organizations Face the Greatest Pressure
Financial institutions must manage identity, risk, and compliance simultaneously. Organizations need continuous visibility across complex landscapes to ensure documented governance.
Suppliers and OEMs must demonstrate TISAX readiness to maintain business relationships. Keeping evidence current, mapping controls to VDA ISA requirements, and managing assessment cycles becomes difficult without structured governance.
Large OEMs and critical suppliers may fall under NIS2 as essential or important entities. This creates binding obligations for risk management, incident handling, and supply chain security with direct management accountability.
Automotive organizations work with extensive supplier, contractor, and partner networks that require access to enterprise platforms, engineering systems, and production-related environments. Without structured lifecycle governance, external access becomes difficult to control and defend.
Plant operations depend on shift workers, contractors, and frequent personnel changes. Manual provisioning and deprovisioning across ERP, MES, and directory systems increases the risk of dormant accounts, access accumulation, and compliance violations.
Conflicting rights in SAP, ERP, and manufacturing execution environments create fraud and control risk. Detecting and resolving these conflicts across multiple systems requires a cross-application governance layer instead of manual review.
Featured Case Study: MAN Financial Services
MAN Financial Services, part of Volkswagen Financial Services AG, needed to meet BaFin requirements for authorization management across the wider VW Group environment. NEXIS enabled structured business role modeling with embedded SoD rules, replaced manual Excel-based processes, and supported full regulatory compliance.
Key Outcomes:
- Zero SoD compliance violations after deployment
- Automated recertification for all business roles
- Full BaFin compliance confirmed by internal and external audit
