Exposing SAP systems directly through Portal

Hello All,
If we expose the SAP systems directly through the Portal by creating transaction iviews, Are there any security lapses. I could see a great advantage of users having the internet enabled usage of SAP systems of their organisation.
Is this a recommended approach for an organization who doesnot any external users to the organisation and have only just internal users.
Thanks in adavnce.
Regards,
Kalyan.

> Is this a recommended approach for an organization
> who doesnot any external users to the organisation
> and have only just internal users.
Yes, because to create transaction iviews you also need to specify the system object representing the backend sap system which has a property called Logon Method which can be either "User Mapping" or "Logon Tickets".
In either case you have to map a portal user to the backend user.
So only if a portal user also has some mapping done by means of Logon ticket/User mapping to the backend system can he/she see the transaction.
P.S. Do let me know if you need more help.

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