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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    Cloud Security Trends for SAP Customers

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    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.…

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    Today’s Security Challenges for Industries

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    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

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    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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    Adaptive Cloud Security

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    Today’s organizations rely heavily on cloud applications in order to be at the forefront of digital innovations, and to keep their users connected and their businesses thriving. Cloud innovations help keep organizations competitive in the ever-changing and demanding digital marketplace, with new applications and cloud services enabling businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and responsive…

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    What Vulnerabilities do Attackers Exploit?

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    According to research recently released by Palo Alto Networks, attackers do have vulnerabilities that they prefer to target. In the 2022 Incident Response Report, just six CVE categories accounted for 87% of vulnerabilities being exploited, and in 55% of incidents where the vulnerability was identified it was the ProxyShell category that was targeted. And in…...…

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    Are You Prepared For A Cyber Attack?

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    In SAPinsider’s latest Cybersecurity focused research, the biggest factor for organizations when it comes to securing their SAP systems is the need to protect access to the data in those systems. However, almost as important is pressure to keep systems secure from ransomware and malware attacks. And when asked to rank the top cybersecurity threats…...…

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    The Challenge of Patching

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    One of the biggest challenges that organizations face today with keeping their SAP systems secure is patching systems. In our recent research on Cybersecurity Threats to SAP Systems, respondents reported that keeping up with patches and updates was the second most important challenge they faced behind detecting potential threats, but for respondents in North America…...…

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    Industries Prioritize Cyber Threats Differently

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    Between January and March 2022, SAPinsider surveyed 346 members of our community about the cybersecurity threats to their SAP systems. 31% of those respondents said their organization was in the Software & Technology sector, 20% were from the Manufacturing & Agriculture sector, and 11% were from the Healthcare & Life Sciences sector. The full findings…...…

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    Cybersecurity Challenges Vary By Region

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    Between January and March 2022, SAPinsider surveyed 346 members of our community about the cybersecurity threats to their SAP systems. 41% of those respondents were from North America, 29% from EMEA, and 25% were from APJ. The full findings from that research were published in our Cybersecurity Threats to SAP Systems benchmark report. This market…...…

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    Cybersecurity Threats to SAP Systems Research Webinar

    April 08, 2022

    Tuesday, May 10, 11:00 AM ET Cybersecurity has become an increasingly important topic over the past year, particularly as SAP systems become a central point of business and financial truth within the organization and are more desirable as targets. With growing numbers of businesses being hit by ransomware or supply chain attacks, or a combination…