Best SAP Security Practices for Cloud-Based Applications

A huge part of an organization’s SAP environment is now cloud-based due to the inherent flexibility, on-demand access to scalable resources, simplified management, accelerated innovation, reduced costs, and reduced upfront implementation effort in cloud computing. Many companies have adopted a cloud-first policy. Software giants like SAP have also invested heavily to make cloud computing the core of the enterprise IT environment, relieving businesses of the management and maintenance costs and efforts. However, SAP security remains a shared responsibility between the cloud service provider and the business. In this post, we’ll discuss best practices for businesses to maintain a secure posture for the cloud-based components of their IT environments. We’ll begin with a discussion of SAP’s clean core policy, and then we’ll discuss general best practices. Clean Core Policy Every organization and the way it conducts business is different. Even within the same business vertical, pick any two companies and analyze their technologies, processes, and business objectives, and you’ll find significant differences. Therefore, each organization needs software to be customized to its requirements...