SAP Security

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?

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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Securing SAProuter: How to Get More Complete Protection for This Critical SAP Asset

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We’ve been raising awareness of rising cyber attacks targeting critical SAP systems for years now. Most recently, we partnered with Flashpoint on a new threat report that detailed alarming increases in ransomware incidents involving compromised SAP systems and proof that unpatched SAP vulnerabilities are actively being exploited for financial gain, espionage and sabotage. What are…
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THE SAP® SECURITY GUIDE FOR CIOS

Five challenges and how to overcome them. The Importance of SAP Security.
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Deception Technology for SAP System Security

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Protecting business-critical data is becoming increasingly complex—and by extension, increasingly relevant for today’s organizations. One critical element of this evolution is their increasing reliance on, and hyperconnectivity across foundational technologies such as data centers, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, and broadly adopted software vendors like Microsoft and SAP.
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The Fortinet Security Fabric; Work from Anywhere, Secured

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The Fortinet Security Fabric is at the heart of the Fortinet security strategy. It is a platform organically built around a common operating system and management framework to enable broad visibility, seamless integration and interoperability between critical security elements, and granular control and automation.
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FortiADC Delivers Unmatched Web Protection for SAP

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FortiADC integrates with SAP using an innovative connector for web security, application acceleration, and load balancing.
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Fortinet Secures SAP on AWS

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A focused SAP security practice provides AWS customers with the confidence to deploy SAP while maintaining a consistent operational model and managing risks. To protect all the data generated by SAP, Fortinet utilizes a holistic approach to secure the entire SAP landscape and strengthen an organization’s SAP security posture.
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Fortinet Secures the Intelligent Enterprise Running SAP

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SAP is among the world’s largest software companies, with some 92% of the Forbes Global 2000 using at least some of their enterprise application solutions. Most of these companies will deploy SAP S/4HANA in the cloud—either public or private. In fact, by 2027, some SAP customers will need to migrate to SAP S/4HANA as they…
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California Water and Wastewater District – FORTINET Case Study

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Read the case study of how a California Water and Wastewater District Leveraged Fortinet Solutions to Protect Critical Water Treatment.
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Brasil BioFuels – FORTINET Case Study

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A Company Operating in the Agribusiness, Biofuels, and Renewable Energy Generation Sectors Consolidates IT and OT Network Infrastructure with Fortinet. Read more here.
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Dole plc – FORTINET Case Study

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Fortinet Provides Critical Protection for Dole plc Global Operations. Read the case study here.