Securing SAP BTP - The Foundations: Empowering the Business without Sacrificing Security
As more organizations accelerate their plans to migrate to SAP S/4HANA Cloud and select RISE with SAP for their SAP digital transformation projects, the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is seeing growing adoption for its robust capabilities in developing applications, optimizing workflows, and driving faster business innovation in SAP cloud environments.
SAP BTP has enormous potential for organizations looking to advance their cloud ERP ambitions, but it also represents a new SAP BTP security and compliance risk that must be accounted for and included in your existing security programs as your organization continues to ramp usage.
Why Is SAP BTP Security So Important?
Consider what a user with privileged access can do within SAP BTP. They can create and modify business applications, change or interfere with business processes and workflows, access and view sensitive data, and much more. That’s why secure user and application configuration is of the utmost importance with SAP BTP to avoid potential critical data leakage or IP theft, costly compliance violations, wasted costs on consumption credits, or even critical business downtime and disruption.
Challenges to Securing SAP BTP
Under the shared security model of RISE with SAP, the customer organization owns a number of security responsibilities for SAP BTP (as they do for all SAP applications). Unfortunately, it’s not always clear which responsibilities fall on the customer. Here are some security recommendations you can keep in mind:
- Ensuring the application itself is securely configured with the right access and authorization levels.
- Owning compliance and compensating controls.
- Security audit logging and tracking user access and behavior.
- Quality/security of new code being developed.
However, managing these SAP BTP security responsibilities is much easier said than done since most of the tools security teams would traditionally use to accomplish this don’t sufficiently support SAP. The challenge is compounded further with accelerated project schedules, SAP landscape complexity, under-resourced teams, and ever-growing compliance pressures.
Simplify SAP BTP Security with Onapsis—Protect Both the Platform and Your Custom Code
Fortunately, taking on these shared security responsibilities for SAP BTP doesn’t have to be complicated. Onapsis is your trusted partner for the most complete SAP BTP security, enabling you to secure BTP itself, with robust vulnerability management and threat monitoring capabilities, and the code being written on BTP, with comprehensive application security testing that integrates into BTP development environments.
Onapsis is proud to be the only vendor that supports security of SAP BTP and in BTP. This continues our mission to provide the most complete coverage for the most critical SAP targets and secure what matters most to global organizations. And because the Onapsis Platform doesn’t sit directly within your SAP systems, you won’t have to worry about compromising the security of or stealing resources from your critical production SAP landscape.
