FortiADC Delivers Unmatched Web Protection for SAP
Key Takeaways
⇨ Fortinet’s Application Delivery Controller (FortiADC) enhances SAP security by integrating advanced web application firewall capabilities, intrusion prevention, and application performance optimization, allowing businesses to confidently pursue SAP projects while protecting sensitive data.
⇨ The shifting SAP threat landscape, driven by increased cloud deployments and the use of SAP Fiori, demands a robust security strategy that includes protection for APIs and a comprehensive approach to manage the expanded attack surface.
⇨ By replacing the traditional SAP Web Dispatcher with FortiADC, organizations can achieve greater security visibility and functionality, ensuring their SAP systems are resilient against cyber threats while maintaining unified security policies across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Business leaders must stay on top of emerging trends and modern technology to remain relevant in the digital world. Organizations turn to SAP for accessing real-time data across business units to make data-driven decisions, improve business
outcomes, and drive innovation. With SAP, businesses can integrate customer information, supply chains, and vendors to transform business processes with intelligent automation. A focused SAP security practice is necessary to protect all the data generated by SAP, and Fortinet utilizes a holistic approach to secure the entire SAP landscape. The Fortinet Application Delivery Controller (FortiADC) includes an SAP connector designed for advanced protection against cyberattacks by securing SAP applications with a full-featured web application firewall. It not only protects SAP APIs, but as an application delivery controller, it optimizes SAP application performance. With FortiADC, IT teams can forge ahead with their SAP projects with the confidence they can keep their systems protected against potential cyberattacks.
The SAP threat landscape is shifting
SAP systems contain data from finance, human resources, and proprietary information. Security of this highly sensitive data is paramount, especially as cloud, mobile, and hyper-scale technologies come into play, exposing more services to the Internet and increasing the attack surface area. The threat landscape for SAP software is shifting as many organizations embrace hyperscalers to upgrade their SAP system or move to SAP S/4HANA. The key factors listed below are responsible for the shifting SAP threat matrix.
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