SAP Cybersecurity Whitepapers

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Specialized Research for SAP Cybersecurity

Our whitepapers provide a comprehensive repository of technical research and strategic frameworks for securing the SAP ecosystem. The research covers the full spectrum of enterprise risk, including SAP RISE security, S/4HANA migration security, NIS2 compliance, and mitigation strategies for critical vulnerabilities such as Log4Shell. We empower SAP security teams to move beyond basic access control towards a proactive, defense-in-depth posture. Each whitepaper is authored by SAP security experts to provide actionable, evidence-based guidance for protecting mission-critical SAP solutions.

Technical Research & Strategic Guides

NIS2 Compliance for SAP Solutions

Explore the impact of the NIS2 Directive on SAP environments and the practical steps organizations can take to strengthen compliance and cyber resilience.

Security Patching for SAP Solutions

Learn how organizations can improve the speed, accuracy, and effectiveness of SAP patch management with a white paper focused on the full lifecycle of SAP Security Notes.

Securing the Journey to SAP S/4HANA

Practical guidance for securing S/4HANA migrations, including access governance, custom code security, system hardening, vulnerability management, and ongoing monitoring.

Securing SAP Solutions from Log4Shell

Responding to the Log4Shell threat in SAP applications through a structured approach to vulnerability discovery, risk analysis, remediation, and threat detection.

Securing SAP Systems from Software Supply Chain Attacks

Explore best practices for protecting SAP landscapes from cyber threats that exploit third-party software components, updates, and supplier relationships to gain access to critical systems.

Protecting SAP Systems from Ransomware

Ransomware can be delivered by threat actors through vulnerable SAP applications. Learn how to prevent and detect ransomware exploits performed through the SAP layer, and successfully restore SAP systems impacted by attacks.

SIEM Integration for SAP

Practical strategies for SAP-SIEM integration that manage complexity, deployment cost and effort, maintenance, and cross-platform correlation.

Protecting SAP Systems from Cyber Attack: A Security Framework for Advanced Threats

The whitepaper is the leading benchmark for securing SAP systems against cyber threats, providing detailed cybersecurity guidance for controls and tools to safeguard SAP applications and components.

Security in SAP HANA: The Challenges of In-Memory Computing

Learn how to secure SAP HANA platforms by implementing strong network security, maintaining authentication and authorization mechanisms, encrypting communication paths and data at rest, and configuring policies for logging and auditing.

Defense in Depth: An Integrated Strategy for SAP Security

Securing SAP systems requires an integrated security approach covering network, operating system, database, application, development and client components. This whitepaper provides an end-to-end framework for SAP cybersecurity.

Perfect Storm: The Brave New World of SAP Security

The white paper discusses some of the trends that increase the exposure of SAP platforms to cyber attack and methods used to a­ttack and compromise SAP systems.