Security services and technologies for SAP

Leverage the comprehensive data and identity-centric cybersecurity solutions for your SAP software.
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Securing SAP software

SAP software solutions are the backbone of modern enterprises, handling critical data and driving key business processes. The security of SAP software is crucial to defending against emerging cyber threats and newly discovered vulnerabilities. With the integration of AI-driven security measures, IBM offers IT security services and technologies that add an additional layer of protection to your SAP digital infrastructure, enhancing your company's overall cyber resilience.

Data security

SAP software solutions store vast amounts of sensitive data. Securing these solutions is crucial to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this data, protecting it against unauthorized access, manipulation, or disclosure. IBM Guardium provides comprehensive protection and visibility as your data moves across clouds, databases and applications, ensuring the security of your SAP software and beyond.

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Privilege User Activity Monitoring

Enforce a least privileged access approach so that data is accessed only on a need-to-know basis to allow for monitoring and management of 3rd party and privilege user access to sensitive SAP and enterprise data.

Centralize and simplify data

IBM Guardium supports SAP deployments on-premises and in cloud platforms, including Amazon AWS, Google, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle OCI offering data security protection for your enterprise as it moves across the hybrid-cloud.

Prebuilt templates for regulations

Leverage from prebuilt templates for regulations and automated compliance reporting workflows for faster audit reporting via streamlined processes, reducing total cost of ownership and enforcing a stronger compliance posture.

Pre-built integrations

Actionable and high-priority events are automatically shared via pre-built integrations with SIEM, SOAR, PAM and other ITSM/SecOps tools to automate incident orchestration and accelerate response.

Identity and access management

IBM Verify offers top-tier identity verification, securing sensitive data and preventing unauthorized access to your SAP applications. As an AI-infused IAM platform that focuses on the Identity Fabric, IBM Verify is addressing the SAP hybrid reality and is applying effective orchestration and management of identities across multiple types of business applications, from modernized cloud-native SAP SaaS tools to SAP on-prem environments.

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Enable SSO, MFA, and password-less authentication

Enable Single Sign-On, Multi Factor Authentication and password-less authentication. Restrict or evaluate access in higher-risk conditions.

Read the blog: Strengthen the security of your SAP BTP applications with IBM Verify
Complete visibility into user activity across SAP software

Gain complete visibility into user activity across SAP software and its applications across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem deployments. Consistently map access flows, detect and respond to compromised identities, shadow access, exposed assets, etc.

Automate and manage identities

Automate and manage identities of SAP NetWeaver based apps and SAP Cloud environments across the lifecycle of users, starting from day one through separation. 

Read the guide: Boosting SAP Netweaver security
Continuously discover and manage accounts

Continuously discover and manage unknown and privileged accounts and monitor for anomalous user activity. Securely store and manage secrets with platform-agnostic vaulting capabilities.

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Integrating IBM Verify with SAP Cloud Identity Services in SAP BTP

Businesses must balance the need for secure, seamless access to their applications with the imperative of maintaining stringent security measures. By integrating IBM Verify in SAP BTP - Cloud Identity Services, organizations can leverage from secure user-friendly authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and fine-grained access controls across all SAP applications.

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Take the next step

Speak with a partnership security expert and find out how IBM can reinforce your SAP security today with additional protection.

Or, explore the IBM and SAP partnership to discover how IBM partners with SAP to add client value and create next-generation enterprises. 

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