Comparative Security Performance of Workday Cloud ERP Across Key Dimensions
Monu Sharma, Abhishek Jain

TL;DR
This paper evaluates Workday Cloud ERP's security architecture, demonstrating it effectively balances confidentiality, integrity, and compliance, aligning with international standards and best practices for secure cloud enterprise resource planning.
Contribution
It introduces a comprehensive security analysis framework for Workday ERP, combining CIA Triad and Zero Trust principles, and provides a detailed assessment of its security features and compliance.
Findings
Workday scores 0.86 on security assessment metrics.
Uses encryption, access controls, and continuous verification for security.
Aligns with GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 standards.
Abstract
Workday is a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning-ERP system that brings HR, Finance, Supply Chain functions , Prism Analytics and Extend custom built in application together under an integrated software as a service SaaS environment. As every organization that undergoes digital transformation, the importance of securing sensitive enterprise data in cloud ERP systems has always been more challeging. To analyze Workday's security architecture, we present a Security analysis in both CIA Triad Enhanced Framework and Zero Trust Security Architecture. The study examines five key dimensions confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and compliance with weighted sub metric analysis and qualitative document review. The results show Workday delivers a composite score of 0.86 with an overall score that closely matches international standards of best practices like GDPR, HIPAA,…
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Taxonomy
TopicsERP Systems Implementation and Impact · Cloud Data Security Solutions · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
