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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How will AI change the SAP cybersecurity threat landscape?
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5 Tips to Ensure your SAP Interfaces are Secure
Security has become increasingly important as businesses rely more on technology and digital systems. One area of particular importance, which is an important topic at any SAP Sapphire, is the security of interfaces, which allows different systems and applications to communicate and exchange data. SAP interfaces play a role in integrating ERP systems, but they…
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How to use the SAP Expert Search to find SAP Notes
After many years in the SAP eco-system, I know many good and bad practices exist in the IT Departments of – to be frank – every organization on this planet. Initiated by the SAP Security Patch Day in September 2022, our team has nudged me to share some knowledge. In this short how-to description, we…
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The Patch and Vulnerability Management Symbiotic Relationship
IT professionals turn to patch management and vulnerability management procedures to mitigate hackers. Each process is unique; however, both are frequently used. Vulnerability management covers many risks, whereas patch management concentrates on identifying relevant patches and timely implementing security-relevant software updates for specific bugs or faults. Vulnerability management and patch management are both required processes…
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Sanofi Replaces Traditional SAP Security with SecurityBridge
Sanofi, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health, selected the SecurityBridge Platform to replace a traditional security tool that had been in use for three years. With a vast SAP enterprise, this was not an initiative that was taken lightly. In 2020 Sanofi took that decision based on concerns that their business requirements had…
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SecurityBridge – Patch Management “in a nutshell”
Every SAP Security Patch Day, your SAP Basis team will invest many hours validating newly released SAP security patches. After sifting through all the details, they will be wondering: Which patches are relevant for which systems? These manual verification tasks are automated using SecurityBridge Patch Management.
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Global SAP Partner Leverages Security Solutions from bowbridge Software to Defend Against Malware and Other Attacks
Fujitsu partners with bowbridge to protect its customers’ SAP systems from cyberattack.
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The Market Leader in Electrical Engineering Protects Supplier Communication with bowbridge
Phoenix Contact trusts bowbridge Anti-Virus for SAP to protect against hidden malware.
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bowbridge Delivers Critical Link in Supply Chain Transaction Security
Major U.S. federal agency uses bowbridge to secure supply chain transactions.
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The Enemy Within: SAP Security Threats Hidden in PDF* Uploads
In this on-demand webinar, you will learn: Why allowing external content uploads may dangerously expose your SAP application to malware and other critical threats
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