SAP CyberSecurity
What Is Cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting systems and information from digital attacks. Cybersecurity measures are designed to combat threats against networked systems and applications, whether those threats originate from inside or outside of an organization.
Businesses with a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, governed by best practices and automated using advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, can fight cyber threats more effectively and reduce the impact of breaches when they occur.
What Is Cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting systems and information from digital attacks. Cybersecurity measures are designed to combat threats against networked systems and applications, whether those threats originate from inside or outside of an organization.
Businesses with a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, governed by best practices and automated using advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, can fight cyber threats more effectively and reduce the impact of breaches when they occur.
What Is SAP Cybersecurity?
SAP cybersecurity solutions include:
UI Data Protection Masking and UI Data Protection Logging
- Protect sensitive information in the user interface layer
- Block or log data access
- Secure and refine access
SAP Code Vulnerability Analyzer
- Identify and remedy security vulnerabilities in ABAP custom code
SAP Focused Run
- Security configuration management for SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver, and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
- Patch management
SAP Enterprise Threat Detection and SAP Enterprise Threat Detection Cloud Edition
- Security information and event management solution tailored to the needs of SAP applications
- Identify and analyze threats in SAP applications
SAP Data Custodian and SAP Data Custodian Key Management Service
- Manage security keys
- Monitor and report on data access, storage, movement, processing, and location
- Create and enforce data access, location, movement, and processing policies
SAP Privacy Governance
- Identify security and privacy risks
- Deploy and manage maturity assessments with configurable templates
- Manage security and privacy control evaluations and monitor ongoing compliance
Further Resources for SAPinsiders
SAP Cybersecurity in an Age of Uncertainty. In this article, Jhansi R Bandaru, PMP-Certified IT SAP Security/Compliance Lead, explains that organizations should regularly audit SAP systems to check their security and data integrity and identify vulnerabilities before attackers do. Knowing the weaknesses and gaps in a system is the first step in empowering management to deal with those vulnerabilities proactively, concisely, and effectively.
Expert Q&A: The Importance of Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management. In this video interview, Gabriele Fiata, Head of Enterprise Risk Management and Innovation at SAP, shares his thoughts on enterprises’ common mistakes when managing cybersecurity risk and the need to integrate cybersecurity into an enterprise’s risk management framework.
A Holistic Approach to Managing Cybersecurity & Protecting Your Data. According to SAP Cybersecurity Solution Advisor Anne Marie Colombo, organizations should minimize user access to data by segregating and protecting it. This article presents best practices to ensure a holistic approach to cybersecurity and data protection for your enterprise.
Vendors that can assist SAP customers with cybersecurity include: Capgemini, Fastpath, Fortinet, Layer Seven Security, Lookout, Onapsis, RSM, and Saviynt.
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Tips to Implement MFA for Your SAP Applications
Click Here to View the Session Deck With an increasing number of cyberattacks, organizations need to avoid the high cost of a data breach. Increasingly, traditional security measures do not provide enough protection for the data stored in your SAP systems. In this session, we will examine why passwords are most likely your weakest link…...… -
Secure your SAP environment – Improve Security and Reduce Operational Risks
SUSE solutions secure your SAP environment from the source – the platform’s core – to provide solutions built with a secure software supply chain. Along with SAP-specific features and industry-leading certifications, SUSE makes it a top priority to protect you from all security risks, including known and zero-day vulnerabilities. -
Foundational SAP Security
Security breaches are discussed in the media multiple times a week and the targets are not only major corporations. Smaller enterprises can be just as vulnerable. There is also a knowledge gap when it comes to securing SAP systems not just from a network perspective but in terms of the cloud as well. No matter… -
Protecting SAP Systems from Cyber Attack: A Security Framework for Advanced Threats
Enterprise applications developed by SAP are deployed by over 85 percent of Forbes 500 companies and often lay at the heart of information technology ecosystems, powering mission-critical processes and managing large volumes of sensitive data. SAP applications are therefore a prized target for cyber attackers. Read this whitepaper sponsored by Layer Seven Security to learn… -
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Risk Assessment in SAP Against a Cybersecurity Framework
In part two of the three-part series “Becoming CMMC or NIST Compliant and How to Prove It,” SAPinsider expert Julie Hallett demonstrates for readers how they can assess cybersecurity threats against a cybersecurity framework. In order to effectively evaluate all of the cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities that a company has, they must first apply a… -
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Protect Your Sustainability Goals with SAP Cybersecurity
Security is a critical component of any SAP landscape. Many organizations likely have not considered the role that security plays in sustainability. Modern threats like ransomware can derail virtually every aspect of a business – including sustainability. In this article, SAPinsider expert Gaurav Singh lays out five key cyber hygiene practices that will protect your… -
How to prevent SAP security vulnerabilities
SAP creates some of the world’s most popular products for managing information, with more than 400 million users worldwide. But SAP connectivity presents one of the biggest security risks for your company. In this ebook, we’ll discuss the steps you can take to secure your SAP systems. We’ll also explore ways in which SAP systems… -
Cloud Security Trends for SAP Customers
The movement of enterprise workloads to the cloud continues to accelerate. Cloud environments, in one form or another, have been at the top of infrastructure choices for organizations over the last three years. This year, private cloud and public cloud environments were the top two infrastructure choices for organizations who are updating their SAP landscapes.… -
Today’s Security Challenges for Industries
There is now more than one megabyte of data per second being created for every person on earth. If harnessed properly, that creates a wide array of exciting opportunities for businesses. However, there are also significant security challenges associated with such large amounts of data floating around. Across all industries and disciplines, organizations must now… -
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Cloud Security Fundamentals
SAP workloads are moving to the cloud at an accelerating rate, with 50% of those currently running on-premise likely to move in the next two years. While some will go into software-as-a-service environments, the bulk of SAP workloads moving to the cloud will go into infrastructure-as-a-service environments. This type of environment requires a different approach…
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