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SAP Cybersecurity: Understanding the Top 5 Threats and How to Prevent Them
SAP cybersecurity is a crucial topic in today’s world. Much like a silent guardian, it labors behind the scenes, safeguarding our data and ensuring the steady operation of our businesses. It’s crucial to explore its perimeters and recognize its importance for modern organizations. Consider SAP cybersecurity as a protective shield. It defends our enterprise applications…
How Pathlock Extends SAP Access Control Capabilities to Ariba
Many SAP customers rely on SAP Access Control (SAP AC) to manage access and establish internal controls across their SAP applications. However, SAP AC only covers ABAP-based SAP applications, leaving cloud applications such as SAP Ariba outside its scope. This means that each compliance and access policy must be recreated using Ariba’s native controls, which…
Is Audit Concerned About Your Privileged Ariba Users? We Have an Easy Fix
The landscape of cyber security has seen a dramatic shift in recent years, with privilege abuse emerging as a central concern. This concern is amplified for SAP Ariba, considering its prominence in managing sensitive financial processes. A staggering 90% of security incidents involve some form of malicious privilege abuse, as reported by IBM Security Services…
Navigating SAP Security Notes: December 2023 Patch Tuesday
SAP published fifteen new and two updated Security Notes for December 2023 Patch Tuesday. Compared to October’s and November’s SAP Security Patch Day releases, this month’s release contains more patches overall and with higher severity. Four Security Notes received the HotNews maximum priority rating (CVSS scores ranging from 9.0 to 10.0). Two of the HotNews…
Managing Separation of Duties in Ariba Using SAP Access Control
Why Managing Separation of Duties in Ariba is a Challenge SAP Ariba is one of the most efficient cloud applications to streamline procurement processes. It’s no surprise that many SAP customers manage vendors and purchases of goods or services through Ariba. Though Ariba is an SAP application, one key differentiator is that it functions as…
Enhancing Defense Cybersecurity: How Pathlock Enables the DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture
The DoD ZT-RA, or Department of Defense Zero Trust Reference Architecture, plays a pivotal role as a crucial framework for the Department of Defense in its mission to protect sensitive data, operations, and assets from a diverse range of cyber threats. Unlike traditional security models that rely on the assumption of trustworthiness within the network,…
Mastering Real-Time Monitoring: Benefits, Features, and Best Practices
Efficiently navigating digital security challenges is crucial to the success of any business. Real-time monitoring is a vital element of an effective security strategy, which optimizes application performance and security. Monitoring your applications continuously with automated real-time monitoring and security controls significantly reduces risk and helps maintain a consistent security posture. How does real-time monitoring…
Deprovisioning: Best Practices for Removing User Access
Deprovisioning might sound like technical jargon, but in essence, it’s the process of limiting or removing access to a system, network, or application when it’s no longer needed. Think of it as reclaiming the keys to your house from a guest who’s finished their stay. This process, often overlooked, is integral to maintaining secure data…
Mitigating Access Risks: Why Access Risk Analysis is Essential for AAG
In today’s world, keeping sensitive data safe is more important than ever. One way large and medium-sized businesses do this is by using an Application Access Governance (AAG) solution. This solution helps ensure that only the right people can access important information, which is crucial for keeping data secure, ensuring regulatory compliance, and mitigating access…