We Wrote the Book on SAP Cybersecurity

These, landscapes SAP landscapes have been evolving over time into becoming a completely hybrid approach where you have parts of the landscape, on premise, parts on public cloud, parts on private cloud, software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service. All of these interconnected, which makes organizations embrace, which is a good thing, embrace new technologies, embrace innovation, increase the the pace of innovation and the speed of technology adoption. But it could leave them, exposed to, new risks and, potentially misconceptions of who has to deal with what, and understand the the technology, understand the the risks, the vulnerabilities. So that’s why, at this point in time, the topic of this, book is super important because we need more professionals, well versed into cybersecurity for SAP. It would teach readers first the fundamental about cybersecurity, the whole CIA triad. I talk about the SAP landscape, what it means from the new, an SAP landscape had been changing. I think I know JP mentioned about that as well. Like, it’s no longer within on prem. It’s no longer a l a legacy system, which is sitting within a firewall. Right? It’s changing to more cloud, more hybrid environment. So I guess the book would teach our readers, fundamentals, understand SAP landscape, understand cybersecurity, then going deep into it. How do you build your SAP cybersecurity program? The answer to that question is yes. It does both. I would say it’s more of a foundational book, though, because we go into the foundational concepts of security of SAP technology. Because, what’s very important is that to understand how to secure something, you need to understand also how how that something works or or what are the caveats, interconnections. What what is the technology? What are the services? You need to understand how it works, to properly secure it. Right? So this book focuses a lot on that. We go through, the technology landscapes of SAP applications, the concepts. Hey. Understand that when you deploy an SAP application, you have all of these components. You have all of these building blocks. We start going from the more generic concept of, for example, a landscape or a product. Hey. I I installed Sfour HANA. Okay. Now we start digging deeper and deeper into what it means, ultimately going into the specific services and configurations and and concepts, related to that. I think some knowledge about SAP. I think when we have been thinking about envisioning who is our reader, we thought it it would be somebody who knows about SAP, maybe our SAP security for professionals who are still doing traditional security, maybe a auditor, maybe our compliance folks, maybe a business person, or it can be a InfoSec person or even Cesar who kind of still thinks SAP is a black box. So I think you don’t need to know a lot about anything. If you know if you don’t understand SAP on a very high level, it’s good. But even if you are, like, a beginner, I think you would find value from the book because we have tried to make it fundamental, very basic, at least in the beginning. I have a background in cybersecurity. So I started working in cybersecurity almost twenty years ago. And I I I go very I’m very technical, so I go very deep into, the technology, the services, the operating operating systems. I did that also through my journey on around SAP security. And while doing that, I was able to understand the the concepts, the problems, the vulnerabilities, the risks affecting SAP applications. And that’s what what I dumped into the book. Right? So it was a a very good collaboration with Rob, because he brings, a client’s perspective. Right? A company, an organization navigating the challenges of implementing cybersecurity for SAP, whereas I come more from the the the technical side, more like, hey. If you talk about cybersecurity for I think these are the elements that you need to address. These are the concepts. These are the topics. This is the technology. These are the risks, vulnerabilities. So we complimented it very well, while writing this book.