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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  1. Reinforcing SAP Security Controls in a Landscape of Vulnerabilities

    Advanced persistent threats, bugs like RECON, and even your insiders pose a growing challenge in securing SAP. Are your existing roles and controls enough to stop these threats? Likely not. While sufficient from a governance perspective, organizations must do more to combat threats that are circumventing existing measures. In this session, learn how you can…

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    SAP Announces It Is Addressing Cyber Security Gaps in Multiple Cloud Solutions

    Published: 05/May/2020

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    On May 4, SAP announced that, while performing regular internal reviews of the company’s cybersecurity infrastructure, they discovered several of the company’s cloud products “do not meet one or several contractually agreed or statutory IT security standards.” Learn what this means for the SAPinsider Community.

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    5 Things SAPinsiders Are Saying About Their Enterprise Security Strategy

    Published: 30/April/2020

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    SAP’s transition to an enterprise cloud company has changed the way SAP customers consider and implement their enterprise security strategy. The inclusion of SAP HANA-based systems adds further complexity to these considerations, particularly when these systems are running in hybrid or cloud-based environments. Organizations now need to find a way forward that doesn’t rely on…

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    Protect Your SAP Systems from Cyberattacks

    Published: 02/March/2020

    Reading time: 9 mins

    This article looks at how SAP Enterprise Threat Detection addresses organizations’ pressing needs for protecting modern SAP landscapes.

  5. Insights for Evaluating, Identifying, and Executing Cybersecurity for Your SAP Systems

    Published: 26/February/2020

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Read this blog written by an SAP security and compliance lead for advice on how companies can best ensure their networks are secure. Learn the steps necessary to evaluate, identify, and craft effective cybersecurity umbrellas for SAP systems.

  6. A Low-cost Solution to Help Prevent Cyber Security Breaches in Your SAP System

    Published: 05/February/2020

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    According to multiple sources, the average hacker spends about 200 days in your system before you’ve even realized they’re there. “The amount of data mining that they can capture in that time is incredible,” says Bill Oliver, Head of Technology for Winterhawk. He says these days, it’s more likely a matter of when you’ll be…

  7. 5 Pillars for Addressing Cybersecurity and Data Protection: SAP Highlights Key Areas for Organizations to Focus on to Build Digital Trust with Employees and Customers

    Published: 21/January/2020

    Reading time: 11 mins

    by Bruce Romney, Senior Director of Product Marketing, GRC and Security Solutions, SAP and Erin Hughes, SAP S/4HANA Finance and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Center of Excellence, SAP North America and Thomas Frénéhard, Global Finance and Risk Center of Excellence, SAP What are today’s business leaders most focused on and what are their top…

  8. SAP Cybersecurity in an Age of Uncertainty

    Published: 16/December/2019

    Reading time: 5 mins

    by Jhansi R Bandaru, PMP-Certified IT SAP Security/Compliance Lead According to Risk Based Security’s 2019 MidYear QuickView Data Breach Report, the first six months of 2019 saw more than 3,800 publicly disclosed cyber attacks exposing more than 4 billion compromised records, with 3.2 billion of those records exposed by just eight breaches. Making matters worse,…

  9. Insights for Your Emerging SAP Security Strategy

    Published: 06/February/2019

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Security is at the forefront for many IT leaders and their technical teams. Between regulations such as GDPR and mounting cyberattacks, most enterprise businesses want to know that they are doing the right things on a daily basis to protect their critical assets. SAPinsider had the pleasure of sitting down with key leadership from SAP…

  10. Watch Out for Cyber Attackers Targeting Your SAP Applications

    Published: 12/December/2018

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    Business-critical ERP applications run the economy by managing the sensitive and all-important data and processes of large global organizations. Because of the processes these applications support, SAP customers store their “crown jewels” here. The massive attack surface of these applications leaves them exposed to insider and outsider threats – such as information theft, loss of…