C/4HANA is the name of the newest product in the SAP portfolio. The company based in Walldorf, Germany, promises nothing less than a revolution of customer experience. But is C/4HANA secure? And what does “C/4HANA” mean, anyway?
Identity and Access Management
Achieving effective IT risk management with dynamic mitigation groups
Holistic, effective risk management in IT will help you make sounder decisions faster and present tremendous potential for value creation throughout your company. In practice, however, we continue to witness a lack of measures appropriate for identifying dangers early on. IT risk management is too often understood as a reactive process.
Central license management: the fast lane to security with SAST
Did you know that you can distribute licenses easily and automatically via RFC starting from SAST SUITE Release 5.0?
The State of SAP Security 2018: Between platform security, authorization management and S/4 HANA migration
It’s probably too early to sum up the state of SAP security in 2018. Then again, fall is the season for events such as the DSAG Annual Congress (German SAP User Group), which just ended in Leipzig. It is at conferences and trade fairs like this that you get a chance to find out exactly what is on the minds of SAP customers. As a result, it isn’t too soon to get a reading of the security issues that are considered important in the SAP environment.
Step-by-step: Bring your SAP compliance to a brilliant finish
The IT compliance field poses a major challenge for SAP customers, and in particular, with regard to the compliance of SAP users. It is no coincidence that roles and authorization issues are what many SAP customers find most frustrating.
Self-Adjusting Authorizations: SAST’s new tool intelligently slims down SAP roles
Companies find themselves challenged again and again by the immense effort required to keep employee SAP authorizations up to date during day to day business. Our new SAST SUITE module, Self-Adjusting Authorizations, takes an intelligent approach to solving the most frequent problems: It removes unused transactions automatically, increasing both compliance security and protection against data misuse, in turn reducing administrative effort.
SAST Security Policies: Automation and more transparency thanks to new update features
Security policies allow companies to ensure compliance with data integrity, secrecy, availability and authenticity. Such policies are constantly being updated and scaled to keep up with changes to ongoing operations. When additional policies are added in compliance with guidelines – for example a software update or a DSAG audit, the policy must be compared. To date, this has required checks by hand. Since the Release 5.0 SAST SUITE offers solution, providing automatic identification and adoption of deltas where policies differ.
General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) – Ensure compliance with SAST SUITE
Since the new General Data Protection Regulation (EU 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.
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.