Unify cross-application SoD across your business landscape

SAST BLOG: Unify cross-application SoD across your business landscapeCross-application business processes have unlocked best-of-breed solutions but are introducing new access risks. The proliferation of these business processes has also shifted how organizations must address Segregation of Duties (SoD). Today’s security models span a variety of applications. This makes it critical for enterprises to identify SoD conflicts across apps and enable continuous controls monitoring to detect actual violations as they occur.

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Attribute-based data masking for SAP – protect your ERP data better and reduce your compliance risks significantly

SAST BLOG: Attribute-based data masking for SAPSAP applications contain large amounts of sensitive data. From protected personal information to privileged financial data, this data always harbors risks that companies must deal with, because SAP ERP does not have any built-in masking functions for custom-tailored anonymization in views. As such, the unchecked disclosure of data represents a potential leak, opening up a huge target for potential exploitation. Although add-ons and solutions from SAP and third parties are available to tackle this problem, significant challenges still remain. This is where the concept of attribute-based data masking comes in.

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Centralized SAP Note downloads: making the most of the SAP Netweaver Download Service!

SAP Notes are SAP’s standard tool for supplying coding corrections. Alongside a description of the issue from a business perspective, they also include the technical solution. Security considerations also make them increasingly important for any SAP system landscape, as they provide a regular and prompt means of closing critical vulnerabilities in SAP systems, for example. The SAP Netweaver Download Service offers a number of advantages in relation to SAP Notes.

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SAP Security and SIEM integration: Deliver with dashboards

SAST Blog: Security dashboardsAt the DSAG Technology Days in Early May, the Vulnerability Management Working Group renewed its demand for a security dashboard, which SAP announced many years ago. In light of the current threat situation, it is advisable to stop waiting for it, particularly since good solutions from security specialists have become available in the interim, which also optimize the integration of SAP security with the overall enterprise security architecture. When it comes to end-to-end IT security, it is worthwhile to take a look at the operators of critical infrastructure (CIP) and the new German IT Security Act 2.0 (ITSA 2.0).

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Press release: Global security alliances in cyber warfare

SAST Blog: Global alliances in cyber warfareIn the current Digital Defense Report, Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, called for international collaboration and coalitions for a “new form of collective defense” as a comprehensive strategy against the full spectrum of destructive cyberattacks, espionage, and interference. One of the first and largest of these cyber warfare initiatives is the Pathlock Group, formed from seven leading IT security firms and now the global market leader in access orchestration and application security for mission-critical applications. One of these firms is the Hamburg-based SAST SOLUTIONS, an IT security specialist.

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SAST SOLUTIONS and IBS Schreiber: New Technology Partnership for SAP Authorization Software

SAST Blog: SAST SOLUTIONS and IBS Schreiber: New Technology PartnershipHamburg, July 12, 2022: SAST SOLUTIONS, the Hamburg-based specialist for SAP security and access governance and part of the international Pathlock Group, together with IBS Schreiber, the SAP security and compliance specialist also based in Hamburg, will in future offer customers the integration of IBS Schreiber rule sets through the Easy Content Solution (ECS) software.

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Application security: SAST SOLUTIONS is now a global player with the Pathlock Group

SAST Blog: Application security: SAST SOLUTIONS is now a global player with the Pathlock GroupSAST SOLUTIONS, your Hamburg-based specialist for SAP Security and Access Governance, is now part of the new Pathlock Group, a one-of-a-kind alliance of international providers of access governance and application security solutions. The alliance’s objective is to lift the understanding and scope of end-to-end security to a new level. Our CEO Bodo Kahl and CTO Ralf Kempf talk about the perspectives that will be opening up to SAST SOLUTIONS and its customers.

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