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. 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…

  2. 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,…

  3. 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…

  4. Watch Out for Cyber Attackers Targeting Your SAP Applications

    Published: 12/December/2018

    Reading time: 2 mins

    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…

  5. Cisco 2018: Annual Cybersecurity Report

    Published: 10/December/2018

    Reading time: 1 min

    What if defenders could see the future? If they knew an attack was coming, they could stop it, or at least mitigate its impact and help ensure what they need to protect most is safe. The fact is, defenders can see what’s on the horizon. Many clues are o

  6. Securing SAP S/4HANA

    Securing SAP S/4HANA

    Published: 14/September/2018

    Reading time: 15 mins

    When you are planning a conversion from SAP Business Suite to SAP S/4HANA, many questions about changing security needs can arise. This is due in large part to the architectural and technological changes that come with SAP S/4HANA. Read this article to understand the five critical areas security administrators need to consider when securing an…

  7. Cybersecurity Collection 2018

    Published: 28/August/2018

    Reading time: 1 min

    10 resources to help you reinforce your organisation’s SAP® landscape and fortify against continually evolving cyber threats

  8. Why You Should Care About SAP Cybersecurity: Evolution of the Threat Landscape

    Published: 30/April/2018

    Reading time: 1 mins

    We hear about cybersecurity in the news, and we read about it and see it in our daily work, but why should we care about cybersecurity with regard to SAP applications? SAP applications host the most sensitive and critical information for the biggest organizations in the world; therefore, these applications have become a key target…

  9. How to Respond to an Attack on Your SAP Applications

    Published: 23/April/2018

    Reading time: 1 mins

    You don’t want to be caught off guard in a breach to your SAP applications, but how do you best prepare to respond to a breach? The answer relies on defining a clear incident response process that aligns the organizational resources that are required to address a potential breach to your most critical SAP applications.…

  10. Attacks to an SAP System: Bypassing Detection and How to Prevent It

    Published: 09/April/2018

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Detecting attacks to SAP applications has become more and more important as we see companies making the headlines after being breached. Equifax is one example of how important it is to apply security patches and maintain the security of your applications. Security patches not only prevent your SAP application from being exploited but also ensure…