SAP applications often require the need to restrict access for certain entities to a subset of all instances. In most scenarios, SAP’s authorization concept is sufficient for this purpose. However, there are some disadvantages using SAP authorizations:
SAP Security
SAP applications are widely deployed and used for critical operations worldwide by organizations in essential industries. Despite their importance, many organizations lack the proper preventative, detective, and corrective controls to secure their SAP systes, and have a reigning false sense of security provided by traditional security and compliance products.
A successful attack on unprotected SAP applications could have far-reaching consequences. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued six alerts to date about cyber attacks targeting mission-critical enterprise systems, including SAP. Onapsis Research Labs’ threat intelligence cloud has found more than 300 confirmed exploitations of unprotected SAP applications, including more than 100 hands-on attacks on organizations in less than a year. Among the compromised data included sales, HR, customer, intellectual property, and financial information. Given their importance to business operations, SAP applications need to be secured with the proper tools, processes, and teams.
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