What Is Security?
Security is a broad term that can apply to many fields. In the area of IT, security refers to tools and strategies that prevent unauthorized access to organizational assets such as computers, networks, and data. Security is designed to maintain the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information, blocking the access of sophisticated hackers and malicious insiders.
What Is Security?
Security is a broad term that can apply to many fields. In the area of IT, security refers to tools and strategies that prevent unauthorized access to organizational assets such as computers, networks, and data. Security is designed to maintain the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information, blocking the access of sophisticated hackers and malicious insiders.
What Is SAP Security?
SAP security products and services help organizations to develop and administer solutions securely across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. The SAP Trust Center includes links to various SAP security tools and services under five categories:
- Hybrid identity and access management: SAP Single Sign-On, SAP Identity Management, and SAP Access Control.
- Cloud identity services: SAP Cloud Identity Services – Identity Authentication, SAP Cloud Identity Services – Identity Provisioning.
- Secure development services: SAP Authorization and Trust Management service, SAP Credential Store, Cloud Connectors, and SAP Cloud Programming Model.
- Risk and compliance: SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance, SAP Data Retention Manager, SAP Customer Data Cloud, and SAP Data Privacy Integration.
- Security support services: SAP Security Optimization, SAP MaxAttention, and Security Service and Support Offerings.
Further Resources for SAPinsiders
Trust Matters! The SAP Security Strategy and Roadmap. This presentation by Anne Marie Colombo, Cybersecurity Solution Advisor at SAP, provides an overview of SAP’s security strategy as well as its related solutions and products. The presentation explains how the latest solutions and services, such as SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication, SAP Cloud Platform Identity Provisioning, SAP Enterprise Threat Detection, SAP Single Sign-On, and SAP Identity Management, can bring value to your enterprise security platform.
Insights for Your Emerging SAP Security Strategy. In this blog post, SAPinsider discusses security with key leadership from SAP security company Onapsis. The discussion ranges across many topics, from the state of SAP software and enterprise security to Onapsis’s acquisition of Virtual Forge and its impact on the SAP customer base.
Application Security Imperiled by Attackers. Application security is being threatened by cyberattacks on the application layer, such as SAP S/4HANA systems, which target valuable resources organizations store there, observe SAP’s Arndt Lingscheid, Global Solution Owner Cybersecurity and Data Protection, and Martin Mueller, Presales and Program Manager, SAP Security Suite. Companies need to deploy real-time detection and response to deal with the rise in attacks against the SAP application layer level, they argue.
Vendors that can help SAP customers with security include: Appsian Security, Fastpath, Fortinet, Layer Seven Security, Lookout, Onapsis, Security Weaver, Xiting, and Xpandion.
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Three Essential Security Considerations for Your SAP S/4 Implementation
SAP S/4 implementations can and do bring improved operational efficiency to organizations, but only if they get their implementations right. Given the speed of innovation, new cyber threats, and a changing regulatory landscape, managing risk is a central challenge to SAP S/4 implementations. With SAP S/4, what was once the organization’s core ERP has become…
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Five Key Steps for Infrastructure Security
Security should be top of mind for all businesses that rely on SAP landscapes for mission-critical business functions. Cyberattacks can affect not just the SAP system, but also those of other connected systems. Issues like limited visibility and unpatched systems increase the likelihood of cyberattacks, as well as other system failures. Yet organizations must also…
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March 2023 Security Notes News
Each month, SAPInsider reviews the previous month’s SAP Security Hot News and Notes to help SAPInsiders decide what to do with SAP’s recommendations. This blog breaks down the latest Security notes by vulnerability and risk rating, explains what the risks are, and makes recommendations to help with analysis, installation, and testing. The March 2023 blog…
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Masterclass: Reinvent the Wheel with SAP S/4HANA Security
SAP has delivered nearly 15000 apps in the Fiori library. With this innovation driven to enhance user experience, there is a significant gap in managing risks. Prior to SAP S/4HANA only a single database user was needed, now with eHANA reporting users exist directly on the database and even datacenters are changing from private data centers to…
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Time to get serious about SAP Security Patch Management
As the pandemic pushed businesses to adopt remote working, cybercriminals saw an opportunity to exploit the security vulnerabilities of millions of workers logging on to access sensitive business information from home. Phishing and ransomware attacks surged, and even hospitals dealing with the first wave of Covid patients were not safe from hackers. ERP systems became…
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Do I Really Need an SAP SECOPS Program?
Companies may not believe that an SAP SECOPS program is necessary, but there may be more factors at play than they considered. In this article, SAPinsider Bill Oliver will walk you through some of the key considerations that SAP users must make when setting up their overall security plan. Some organizations that simply having their…
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Video: Securing Your SAP Future
The threat landscape for SAP systems continues to change. Over the last year ransomware attacks have become much more prominent, but threats like credentials compromise, unpatched systems, and weak access controls remain challenges for organizations that want to protect critical data. However, one of the most important factors for organizations is having the right tools…
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Preventing SAP Security Vulnerabilities
The move to SAP S/4HANA comes with its own set of challenges. As SAP landscapes evolve to support business-critical processes with enhanced controls for managing and monitoring, there is an increased need for comprehensive approaches and platforms that cover all aspects of security, including data and application to detect complex cyberattack patterns and anomalies in…
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Securing Custom SAP Code
Secure Software Development Lifecycle Following a secure software development lifecycle (SDL) is a fundamental requirement for all product teams at SAP. Security is integrated into the development and maintenance of all SAP-delivered code. This is supported by the use of a proprietary code scanning solution by SAP to detect and remove security vulnerabilities in developments…
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Zero Trust in SAP Systems
What’s driving more SAP customers to adopt cloud security solutions? The number one driver for organizations was the “Need to protect access to sensitive and confidential data.,” according to SAPinsider’s Securing the SAP Landscape Against Cyber Threats Benchmark Report. Tracking and securing data as it moves across an organization’s SAP landscape is a common challenge…
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