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.
SAP systems are high-value targets for sophisticated cyberattacks — they contain treasure troves of sensitive data. While many companies have robust antivirus programs in place to defend against such attacks, most have certain limitations that can prevent them from fully protecting SAP systems. Learn where the security gaps exist with traditional antivirus software, and how to bridge them to keep your SAP systems secure.
Cybercrime is not some theoretical threat — it is a real and growing issue for companies of all shapes and sizes. With trends such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, a growing number of connected devices, and the use of personally identifiable information for analytics, data in the digital economy is valuable, plentiful, and vulnerable from myriad angles. Learn how the built-in security features of SAP HANA can help you avoid cyber threats with a secure digital platform that can also be complemented by a variety of specialized security and governance solutions.
There’s no arguing against the benefits of digital technologies and the innovations that come with cloud computing, mobility, and the Internet of Things (IoT). But there’s also no arguing against the fact that a new generation of digital technologies also means a new generation of cyberthreats. As you adopt new IT strategies, how will your security operations be impacted? This is the very question that SAP asked when it underwent its own digital transformation. In this article, discover how SAP managed its security processes and revamped its governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) strategy as it embraced new technologies, and learn how you can adopt the same strategies to your own organization.





