Oct 24, 2023
•1 minute read
SAP CyberSecurity
SAP Cybersecurity focuses on protecting SAP applications, data, infrastructure, and integrations from digital threats across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments. It spans SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP BTP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP Fiori, identity and access controls, threat detection, patching, privacy, and compliance. For SAP customers, cybersecurity connects IT, security, Basis, risk, audit, and business leaders around one goal: keeping mission-critical systems secure, resilient, and trusted.
What is SAP Cybersecurity?
SAP Cybersecurity is the practice of securing SAP systems, applications, users, custom code, data, and connected business processes from internal and external threats. It includes capabilities such as SAP Enterprise Threat Detection, SAP Focused Run, SAP Code Vulnerability Analyzer, data masking, privacy governance, key management, patch management, and access monitoring. Enterprises use SAP cybersecurity to reduce breach risk, protect sensitive business data, support compliance, and maintain operational continuity.
SAP Cybersecurity focuses on protecting SAP applications, data, infrastructure, and integrations from digital threats across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments. It spans SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP BTP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP Fiori, identity and access controls, threat detection, patching, privacy, and compliance. For SAP customers, cybersecurity connects IT, security, Basis, risk, audit, and business leaders around one goal: keeping mission-critical systems secure, resilient, and trusted.
What is SAP Cybersecurity?
SAP Cybersecurity is the practice of securing SAP systems, applications, users, custom code, data, and connected business processes from internal and external threats. It includes capabilities such as SAP Enterprise Threat Detection, SAP Focused Run, SAP Code Vulnerability Analyzer, data masking, privacy governance, key management, patch management, and access monitoring. Enterprises use SAP cybersecurity to reduce breach risk, protect sensitive business data, support compliance, and maintain operational continuity.
How do enterprises use SAP Cybersecurity?
Protecting Sensitive SAP Data
Enterprises use SAP cybersecurity to protect financial, customer, supplier, employee, and operational data inside SAP systems. Controls such as data masking, access logging, encryption, and privacy governance help limit exposure while supporting audit, compliance, and business-user access needs.
Monitoring Threats Across SAP Landscapes
Security teams use SAP-specific monitoring to detect suspicious activity across SAP applications, databases, users, and integrations. Tools such as SAP Enterprise Threat Detection help connect SAP events with broader SOC, SIEM, and incident response workflows.
Managing Patches and Vulnerabilities
SAP Basis, security, and infrastructure teams use cybersecurity processes to track SAP Security Notes, patch critical vulnerabilities, and validate remediation. This is especially important for SAP NetWeaver, SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, and hybrid landscapes where exposure points can expand quickly.
Securing Identity and Access
Enterprises use SAP cybersecurity to enforce least privilege, monitor privileged users, reduce segregation-of-duties risk, and strengthen authentication. This helps protect business transactions while supporting compliance requirements across finance, procurement, supply chain, and HR processes.
Protecting Custom Code and Extensions
SAP teams use code vulnerability analysis and secure development practices to identify risks in ABAP custom code, extensions, integrations, and SAP BTP-based development. This supports clean core strategies while reducing the chance that customizations introduce exploitable weaknesses.
Where does SAP Cybersecurity emerge in SAPinsider research?
Cybersecurity Threats and Challenges to SAP Systems shows that unpatched systems remain the biggest cybersecurity threat to SAP systems. The report also found that 23% of respondents experienced credential compromise, social engineering, malware, ransomware, or another cybersecurity attack impacting their SAP environment in the past year.
State of the Market GRC in SAP Environments connects cybersecurity priorities with governance, risk, compliance, identity, and control modernization. SAPinsider found that 60% of organizations are automating GRC processes, while 53% are centralizing control workflows to improve visibility and efficiency.
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Prioritizing Cybersecurity During SlowdownAccording to SAPinsider’s latest research on Cybersecurity Threats to SAP Systems, the current economic climate is adversely affecting organizations’ planned cybersecurity projects. While over a third (35%) report that some projects are on hold, 29% are scaling back planned investments in the cybersecurity space. But the impact goes beyond this as one in five organizations (18%) reported a reduction in the size of their security teams. SAPinsider spoke to Jason Cook from Rubrik, Aman Dhillon from Layer Seven Security, and JP Perez-Etchegoyen from Onapsis to get their insights on these challenges.
Cook emphasized that, despite budget reductions, there is still a desire to address cybersecurity risks, especially at the point of data. This corresponds to the SAPinsider’s research finding, which highlights that two of the top five areas of planned security investments are data related: data security tools, second on the list of planned investments, and data encryption, which is fifth on the list.
Dhillon sees that cost is becoming a more important factor in their decisions. Organizations are focusing more on licensing costs and the total cost of ownership (TCO) when evaluating cybersecurity solutions. TCO includes factors such as hardware requirements, installation effort, ease of maintenance, and services such as training and support. They are also investing more time to evaluate solutions and are increasingly performing proof-of-concepts before selecting a solution.
Perez-Etchegoyen believes that there has been a gradual resurgence in cybersecurity investments. While there had been some hesitation about spending for the last two years, projects were not scrapped, but only experienced delays. Many organizations took this time to re-examine and reassess their projects. But now, organizations are revamping and restarting their cybersecurity initiatives due to the unrelenting growth in cyberattacks and systems vulnerability.
Sep 15, 2023
•4 minute read
Lactalis Review: How Automated Solutions are Revolutionising User AccessSAP-dependent organisations encounter User Access Reviews challenges due to accumulated access rights in SAP systems, which can lead to adverse audit findings and jeopardize compliance and security. Lactalis offers automated solutions to revolutionize User Access Reviews, ensuring proactive regular reviews and improved SAP user access management.
Jul 26, 2023
•1 minute read
Mastering National Cybersecurity Strategy Compliance with PwCThe White House recently unveiled its US National Cybersecurity Strategy implementation plan in July. The document release came just four months after its initial announcement, which indicates a high level of urgency from the U.S. federal government in addressing cybersecurity issues.
According to a White House press release, the plan aims to enact two major shifts in how the U.S. addresses concerns to cybersecurity: “Ensuring that the biggest, most capable, and best-positioned entities – in the public and private sectors – assume a greater share of the burden for mitigating cyber risk” and “increasing incentives to favor long-term investments into cybersecurity.”
There are dozens of initiatives baked into the cybersecurity plan, but there are three important points. The strategy intends to hold software companies liable for cybersecurity failures, it proposes regulations to protect critical infrastructure, and it advances a “defend-forward” approach coupled with law enforcement actions to disrupt malicious actors.
To help organizations prepare for the new plan, we will review what each of these aspects of the plan mean for businesses, and how those companies can best address their new requirements.
Jul 26, 2023
•3 minute read
Splunk Unveils Product Innovations – Splunk Attack Analyzer, OpenTelemetry Collector, and Unified IdentitySplunk, a leader in cybersecurity and observability leader, has introduced new product innovations to its unified security and observability platform. The enhancements cover the full range of Splunk's offerings, equipping SecOps, ITOps, and engineering teams with consolidated interfaces and processes that facilitate prompt, precise, and large-scale detection, investigation, and response to threats. When combined with Splunk's AI solutions, they offer organizations unparalleled insights across their hybrid systems and allow them to optimize costs, and accelerate detection, investigation and response process. A few product innovations are Splunk Attack Analyzer, OpenTelemetry Collector, Unified Identity, and other Splunk Platform enhancements.
Jul 21, 2023
•2 minute read
Splunk AI-powers its Offerings for Security and Observability PlatformSplunk Inc., a leader in cybersecurity and observability, has announced Splunk AI, a suite of new AI-powered offerings to advance its unified security and observability platform. Splunk AI integrates automation and human-in-the-loop interactions, allowing businesses to expedite detection, inquiry, and response while maintaining control over AI's application to their data. It offers assistive experiences and empower SecOps, ITOps and engineering teams to automatically mine data, detect anomalies, and prioritize critical decisions through intelligent risk assessment, and minimizing repetitive processes and human error. By refining domain-specific large language models (LLMs) and machine learning algorithms built on security and observability data, Splunk AI lightens the workload of SecOps, ITOps, and engineering teams.
Jul 20, 2023
•2 minute read
Securing SAP Systems in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceHistorically, SAP has employed conventional methods to secure its systems. However, the most critical areas in SAP cybersecurity now require professionals to leverage AI. The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has introduced challenges in ensuring the security of SAP systems. To address the evolving cyber threats in the SAP ecosystem, cybersecurity experts specializing in SAP must incorporate AI into their technological solutions. The use of AI can assist cybersecurity professionals in securing and safeguarding SAP systems in five key areas - threat detection, risk assessment, incident response, phishing detection and response, and automation.
Jul 17, 2023
•2 minute read
Discovering and Patching SAP Vulnerabilities with OnapsisCybersecurity threats are pervasive and constantly evolving. New technologies come with unforeseen gaps that malicious actors can exploit. This can lead to significant financial and reputational harm that enterprises may take years to recover from.
Fortunately, companies do not have to contend with these vulnerabilities alone. Cybersecurity leader Onapsis recently highlighted two significant potential security gaps that organizations should be aware of, offering potential solutions for how to ensure that these gaps are patched and will no longer be vulnerable to exploitation from malicious actors.
In this article, we will explore two critical components of SAP technology stacks and their vulnerabilities – Roll Function Call and Internet Communications Manager. ICM is vital as it connects SAP applications to the internet, while RFC is necessary for each system that relies on the SAP Application Server for ABAP.
Both of these crucial components are of significant interest to malicious actors because of how vital they are to the continued functionality SAP landscapes. We will go over just how crucial these protocols are, how best to patch them, and how GRC teams can remain up to date on the best ways they can keep SAP landscapes secure.
Jul 13, 2023
•2 minute read
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