Securing the Journey to S/4HANA
For most organizations, migrating to S/4HANA is a complex and drawn-out process, requiring extensive planning, funding and resourcing. 81% of digital transformation projects experience delays and failures, costing organizations an average of $4.12 million. Security concerns are the most significant roadblock to successful migrations. The path to S/4HANA involves redesigning security models to address significant differences between the system architectures of ERP and S/4HANA. Authentication and authorization models differ significantly between the solutions. There are also significant differences in data structures, communication protocols, cross-system interfaces, and other areas.
The security challenges are intensified by concerns related to deploying SAP in the cloud and the need to secure customizations implemented through custom code migrated from ERP to S/4HANA. The concerns are justified. Insecure SAP applications in cloud environments can be discovered and compromised in less than three hours. SAP customers have an average of 2500 vulnerabilities within their custom programs and two-thirds of organizations do not perform automated vulnerability scanning for custom SAP code.
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