Cybersecurity and application security is a trend-driven field. While attackers continue to improve their attack techniques, defenders need to pay attention to these new trends. Follow our trending tags for information on specific topics.
The SAP Secure Operations Map is part of the security recommendations published by SAP and has been revised several times over the years. While this is well known to SAP security experts, much fewer people in Information Security are familiar with it.
SAP S4/HANA is the latest generation of SAP Business Application based on the HANA database. May organizations are in the migration or planning to perform a migration to SAP S4/HANA. The prerequisite for an effective S4/HANA migration phase is a clean and well-prepared environment.
Selecting a specialized solution for each security area, however, has some limitations. A holistic approach offers additional benefit that is required to gain insight into potential risks and to offer full transparency of the security posture.
Quite a few SAP customers are currently migrating their systems to the new S/4HANA platform. This represents a great opportunity to re-think SAP security and harden S/4HANA right from the outset. However, there are several challenges to SAP security with S/4HANA. Despite sharing numerous settings with the “old” SAP Business Suite, some things are fundamentally different in S/4HANA.
