Why is it important to secure your SAP application with SAP security monitoring?

Security is a key element in any enterprise technology to ensure business success and growth and also to gain trust among the buyers. SAP applications drive most businesses in critical processes, but the biggest threat is cyber attackers who actively exploit SAP security vulnerabilities to steal information. It has become crucial in every enterprise’s threat management to adopt SAP security monitoring. A SAP-oriented security solution should enable ways to integrate additional security layers into the SAP infrastructure and to protect SAP logs from data corruption. To know more on securing SAP application with SAP security monitoring let us dive into deep concepts:

How does SAP security work?

If you are using SAP for the first time, it is recommended to run interface security monitoring function initially as it is a sophisticated monitoring. The interface security monitoring gives you a deep insight into the security activity taking place in your SAP environment. The aspects of SAP security in dealing with SAP landscapes is to split between the application layer and the basis layer on the infrastructure part. On the application layers, a SAP security specialist will likely look into more solutions like SAP security interface monitoring or SAP Enterprise Threat Detection (SAP ETD). With these solutions cyber attacks can be detected from the inside by users with legitimate system access or with existing vulnerabilities. 

What are the use cases of SAP Security Monitoring?

A good SAP security monitoring software should be deployed in such a way that it should monitor a whole system, not a single control point. SAP security monitoring software can be used in accordance with the following use cases, which are:

Alerts on unauthorized access:

With SAP security monitoring software users can get alerts on any anomalies in real-time. Real-time anomalies in authentication activities include new accounts, new IPs, devices, proxies, capturing different authentication and so on. The solution is the best addition to transmitting any sensitive data and records stored on SAP.

Suspicious Configurations:

SAP security monitoring software detects and monitors unauthorized or suspicious configuration changes or even any unusual events. The SAP security team can even make connections to the access source and the reason behind the access was taken.

Insider Threats:

SAP security monitoring software can detect any malicious activities using rules and behavior analysis. Alerts are generated on unauthorized or unusual access to the SAP system on a business control point. With a step of process performed during accessing a SAP data, the use case can determine if the access to SAP is considered suspicious or not.

Privilege Abuse:

Many businesses suffer from the abuse of privileged accounts which includes changing passwords and tampering with log data. But, with a SAP security monitoring reactions can be performed against abuses since the alerts are received immediately.

Conclusion:

At SAP BASIS Solution Services, we help our customers with state-of-art proactive monitoring and 24×7 support. We secure your organization’s data from unauthorized access by recording system usage statistics. Connect with us today to know more on SAP security and monitoring solutions!