Security services and technologies for SAP

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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 cyberthreats 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 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.

Privilege user activity monitoring

Enforce a least privileged access approach so that data is accessed on a need-to-know basis. This approach allows for monitoring and management of 3rd party and privileged 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

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

Prebuilt integrations

Actionable and high-priority events are automatically shared through prebuilt 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. These applications can range from modernized cloud-native SAP SaaS tools to SAP on-premises environments.

Enable SSO, MFA and passwordless authentication

Enable single sign-on, multifactor authentication and passwordless authentication. Restrict or evaluate access in higher-risk conditions.

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-premises deployments. Consistently map access flows, detect and respond to compromised identities, shadow access, exposed assets and so on.

Automate and manage identities

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

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-independent vaulting capabilities.

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