As the years pass by, companies are increasingly facing the oft-lamented lack of experts. Bright minds thinking about information technology and how to implement it, maintain it and, especially, secure it, are far and few between. And the risks grow in line with the increasingly complex IT environment. Most IT departments are simply in over their heads in the face of this challenge. For this reason, security for systems and storage of critical company data is often pushed to the bottom of the to-do list.
Consider this: Managed services offer quick, and most importantly, secure solutions.
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – Ensure compliance with SAST SUITE
Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is fully effective, companies must now face new challenges with respect to protecting personal data.
To meet the guidelines under the GDPR, we can help with two modules of SAST SUITE in particular: SAST HCM Read Access Monitoring and SAST Superuser Management.
How to guard your SAP Gateway against unauthorized calls
Time and again, we’ve seen subpar handling of risk resolution in practice for RFC interfaces, with no guarantee for maintaining proper and secure operating conditions.
In today’s practical tip, we give you a step-by-step explanation of how you can secure your SAP gateways against unauthorized calls.
Handling Authorizations During an SAP Release Upgrade
After upgrading to a new SAP release, customers often face the challenge of using the SAP transaction SU25 to bring their authorizations up to speed, as well.
In today’s practical tip, Steffen Maltig shows you how to save up to 90% of the resources this normally requires.
You installed an SAP Note and suddenly your organizational levels were gone?
To help you avoid struggling with missing organizational level configurations in your next authorization rollout project, Sascha Heckmann has a practical tip on how to prevent the loss of these configurations in your authorization roles.
Audit or Penetration testing? Find your vulnerabilities before you get hurt!
To answer the question of which Security & Compliance check is right for you, we must first remember that the term “vulnerabilities” can refer to very different levels of your system landscape and thus refer to a number of attack vectors.
This ranges from system-side levels (e.g. operating system and network security) to the underlying database including the current parameterization of your SAP systems down to the authorizations required for operations and applications, including any SoD conflicts.
So, the first question is – how sure are you that you know where your vulnerabilities are? Continue reading
Automated SAP Authorization Management and System Security for 50 countries
Takeda’s twin objectives were to accelerate and simplify its authorization assignment process while deploying a tool that was simultaneously capable of providing vulnerability monitoring for its SAP backend worldwide. Continue reading
General Data Protection Regulation – is your protection in place?
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) takes effect on May 25, 2018, and hardly a day goes by without some news about it – and that’s the way it should be! As demonstrated by a DSAG member survey of SAP users just a few weeks ago, only just over half of all the companies (53%) have a roadmap. To say nothing of full implementation of the new requirements.
Michael Muellner, Head of Security & Compliance at AKQUINET, discusses helps to make this topic accessible to you by building a bridge from the statutory requirements to steps in operations and concrete tips.
WITH HEADER LINE – it’s not simply obsolete; it’s a risk.
The addition “WITH HEADER LINE” has technically been unnecessary going back several SAP versions now. This is because the statement declares both internal tables and an additional data object – the header line.
There are a large number of notes that spread awareness that the use of this statement causes various content problems. Among other things, the use of the same name means that it is not immediately apparent as to whether you are working on a table or a header line.
However, what the notes typically do not warn you about is that this kind of programming goes hand in hand with security problems for your SAP systems.
Are your SAP licensing costs really optimized?
Pressure is rising steadily for companies to keep costs down and information technology has not escaped this. In the SAP environment, licensing costs make up a particularly sizeable share of the overall IT costs and they are now being reviewed once again by many companies.
Our tip today will show you how to take the first step to reducing licensing costs yourself.