Managed Service: The Booster for your SAP Security & Compliance

SAST MANAGED SERVICESChecking for vulnerabilities, flawed configurations, and critical authorizations on a regular basis is the only reliable way to ensure SAP system security. Dedicated efforts to safeguard SAP environments, however, are both technically complex and contingent upon having a great deal of time and personnel. That’s why a managed service presents an attractive alternative.

Gunar Funke, head of SAP Manages Services SAST SOLUTIONS at AKQUINET, recently sat down with us to talk about why a managed service solution makes particular sense in the context of SAP security and what’s involved with regard to SAST SUITE.

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10KBlaze and SAP Security II: Hype & Scaremongering

10KBlaze & SAP Security: Serpenteq(Partner blog post of SERPENTEQ GmbH)
On April 19, 2019, at the OPCDE Cyber Security conference in Dubai, security researchers Dmitry Chastuhin and Mathieu Geli gave a presentation called “SAP gateway to Heaven”. They re-visited two configuration issues (related to SAP Gateway and SAP Message Server) that have been known for many years and for which detailed security guidelines have been available for years. Now the researchers applied some admirably creative thinking to combine them.

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SAP Security & Compliance: Challenges in the Context of S/4HANA, Code Security, and the Cloud

SAST DAYSThey say that major events cast a shadow that portends their arrival. In SAP environments, this applies in particular to the transition to S/4HANA, which companies will need to make before maintenance for SAP ERP expires in 2025.

As we covered this pending migration from various perspectives at our SAST DAYS 2019 event, interest in the topics of authorizations and code security was especially high. Let’s take a look back at those exciting days, which presented a balanced mix of current challenges and assorted solutions.

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Authorizations for batch processing in NetWeaver and S/4HANA environments

SAST_SAP_User-Access-ManagementDespite the increasing use of web interfaces in the context of S/4HANA, batch processing is still required for mass data. However, our experience in customer projects has shown that very few administrators know how manage authorizations properly in such scenarios. SAP OSS Note 101146 offers a good overview in this regard. In this blog post, we want to provide a condensed explanation of how the practical aspects interrelate.

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Why passwords are pricey – and how you can still keep costs down

SAST Password Reset for SAPA password is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that it permits relatively secure authentication. The curse is that because the complex passwords required for secure login are often too hard to remember, even for those with good memories. A forgotten password is annoying for users. It also costs a lot of money. Read more to learn just how high the costs can be and how you can avoid them.

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