SAP Solution: Security risks

Allgeier ES board member Jörg Dietmann sees S/4 as a generational shift with major changes and opportunities for existing SAP customers. In an exclusive interview with E-3, he answers critical questions about the interaction between S/4 and Hadoop, as well as about machine learning and security in the Hana Cloud Platform.

Although the number of security incidents at large and medium-sized companies is steadily increasing, many are subordinating the topic of data security to transformation projects. Andreas Opfer and Holger Hügel from Secude explain what modern security concepts should look like and how SAP managers can integrate them sensibly into current S/4 Hana migration projects.

Data that could previously be protected by SAP authorization concepts is now increasingly exported from secure SAP systems and redistributed via third-party applications such as MS Office. Anyone who wants to protect their data should think about new, data-centric security concepts and anchor them as a core process in operational IT operations.

SAP data exports and downloads are an unguarded frontier in many organizations.