RISE with SAP and SecurityBridge: The Synergies Redefining Security for SAP
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RISE with SAP helps enterprises modernize and scale their operations. By enabling a seamless migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, this offering empowers businesses to reduce IT complexity, enhance agility, and achieve operational efficiency. However, while SAP shoulders significant infrastructure-level and basic system-level security responsibilities, application-level security remains the enterprise’s prerogative.
RISE with SAP: A Chance for Your Security to Rise with SecurityBridge
For organizations navigating this critical area, RISE with SAP can be the starting point for a better SAP Security posture, and SecurityBridge emerges as a key ally for that. By leveraging deep insight into the Security & Compliance state of their SAP landscape, customers can easily narrow down the requirements for RISE with SAP readiness and significantly accelerate their migration projects.
As a certified solution, SecurityBridge addresses the nuanced demands of securing an SAP environment during and after the transition to RISE with SAP. It offers an integrated suite of tools to ensure robust User Management, system hardening, real-time Threat Detection, and efficient Patch Management. For enterprises embracing RISE with SAP, SecurityBridge not only mitigates risks but also positions security as a driver of efficiency and compliance.
The SecurityBridge Platform empowers SAP customers to establish a Cybersecurity Command Center for RISE with SAP, providing full insight into the fulfillment of SAP’s security responsibilities. In addition, it allows customers to efficiently implement their application security posture as part of an integrated Enterprise Cybersecurity Strategy.
Based on SAP’s Shared Security Responsibility Model (see picture below) let’s examine how RISE with SAP customers benefits from leveraging SecurityBridge to fulfill their security responsibilities.
Application User Identity, Access, and Authorization Management
One of the most pressing concerns for enterprises is user identity, access, and authorization. Security breaches often originate from poorly managed access, making it essential to detect misuse promptly. SecurityBridge provides a sophisticated framework for managing this risk. Through real-time detection and self-learning identity protection, it monitors and notifies users of suspicious account activities. This proactive approach, combined with automated enforcement of the least-privilege principle, ensures that only necessary permissions are granted to users while maintaining an auditable trail of all their privileged actions. This innovative Privileged Access Management approach doesn’t require hard-to-manage “dummy” users or user impersonations.
System Hardening and Compliance
SecurityBridge excels in delivering visibility into the hardening of SAP systems. While RISE with SAP sets a baseline for system hardening, SecurityBridge amplifies this by offering a comprehensive 360° view of the enterprise’s security posture based on a dedicated baseline for RISE with SAP. Its capabilities extend to monitoring compliance with industry frameworks such as SOX, NIST, KRITIS, or NIS2, ensuring regulatory adherence with minimal operational overhead. Additionally, SecurityBridge provides critical oversight into the security of SAP application interfaces and their third-party communications, areas often excluded from SAP’s standard service scope.
For businesses leveraging the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SecurityBridge introduces advanced measures to secure custom-built applications and integrations. Its automated tools enable the seamless scanning of ABAP custom code and third-party applications, effectively identifying vulnerabilities before deployment. This capability is particularly valuable for enterprises relying heavily on customizations to drive their unique business processes.
Application Security Audit Logging
Another distinguishing feature of the platform is its ability to audit and monitor security logs in real-time. Enterprises gain continuous insights into user activities, system anomalies, and potential data leaks, empowering them to act swiftly against threats. Unlike the default approach in RISE with SAP, which primarily covers client 000, SecurityBridge extends its monitoring capabilities across productive environments, offering a much-needed layer of vigilance. Its intelligent event correlation capabilities further enhance decision-making, ensuring that security teams focus on actionable threats rather than sifting through noise.
Securing Custom Applications Development
Custom development and change management are often overlooked aspects of SAP security, yet they can introduce significant vulnerabilities. SecurityBridge embeds automated code security into these processes, ensuring secure custom SAP applications. Scanning code and third-party applications before deployment prevents vulnerabilities from entering the production environment. Additionally, SecurityBridge provides continuous protection for custom applications operating on SAP BTP, enabling enterprises to maintain a secure development lifecycle.
Application Change Management and Patching
Patch Management is another critical area where SecurityBridge drives efficiency and enables the RISE with SAP customers to coordinate the required patches with the SAP ECS (Enterprise Cloud Services) team. While SAP addresses very high (Hot News) and high-urgency security notes that do not require a system restart, customers are responsible for identifying all other critical patches needed for their SAP ERP environment.
The SecurityBridge Platform streamlines this traditionally cumbersome process through automated validation and upfront impact analysis. By identifying the operational implications of new patches, SecurityBridge helps enterprises plan their deployments effectively, minimizing downtime and avoiding unnecessary risks. Its virtual patching capability provides an additional layer of protection, monitoring the usage of vulnerable code until permanent patches are applied, ensuring uninterrupted security coverage.
Conclusion
The SecurityBridge Platform’s alignment with RISE with SAP’s shared security responsibility model highlights its role in addressing a critical gap in enterprise security. While SAP ensures the foundational integrity of the cloud infrastructure, SecurityBridge enables enterprises to fortify the application layer, where most vulnerabilities reside.
The combination of RISE with SAP and SecurityBridge delivers a robust framework for digital transformation. For enterprises navigating the complexities of cloud migration and modernization, SecurityBridge provides the tools, insights, and automation needed to ensure a secure, compliant, and efficient SAP landscape.
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