How to Comply with the DHS Recommendations for Securing SAP Systems from Cyber Attacks
In response to the dramatic rise of cyber attacks targeting ERP applications, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a warning earlier this year that encouraged organizations to respond to the risks targeted at their business applications by implementing specific measures to secure, patch and monitor SAP systems. The measures included scanning for […]
SolMan-SIEM Integration for Advanced Threat Detection
SAP Solution Manager monitors real-time event information in SAP logs to automatically detect and trigger alerts for specific Indicators of Compromise (IOCs). This includes events written to the security audit log, system log, gateway server log, change document log, HTTP log, transaction log, SAProuter log, Java security log and the HANA audit log. Alerts are […]
DHS Issues Warning for Cyber Attacks Targeting SAP Applications
The United States Department of Homeland Security issued a warning this week for malicious cyber activity targeting ERP applications including SAP. The warning is based on the findings of a recent report issued by Digital Shadows. The report discusses the dramatic rise in cyber attacks on widely used ERP applications. The report echoes the findings of […]
U.S Treasury Sanctions ERPScan
Earlier this week, the United States Treasury issued an Executive Order to prohibit U.S organizations from engaging with ERPScan, a subsidiary of Digital Security and a provider of security software and services for SAP systems. According to a press release issued by the Treasury, Digital Security “provided material and technological support to Russia’s Federal Security […]
Equifax Data Breach: Attackers Exploited an Unapplied Security Patch, not a Zero-Day Vulnerability
On September 15, Equifax released a statement to confirm the initial attack vector that led to the compromise of personal information relating to 143 million consumers in the US, UK and Canada targeted an Apache Struts vulnerability within a web application that supports the organization’s online dispute portal. The patch for the vulnerability had been […]
Discover Vulnerable System Connections with Interface Monitoring
Interface Monitoring provides the answer to one of the most vexing questions in SAP security: where are our vulnerable cross-system connections and how do we monitor them to ensure they’re not abused by attackers? Although Interface Monitoring, also known as Interface Channel Monitoring or ICMon, has been available in SAP Solution Manager since version 7.10 […]
Highlights of the 2017 DBIR Report
The Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has chronicled the growth in security and data breaches for over a decade. The findings of the most recent report released on April 27 are based on the analysis of more than 42,000 security incidents across a variety of industries and countries. For the first time, the DBIR examines […]
Explore Service Level Reporting in SolMan 7.2
Service Level Reporting (SLR) in SAP Solution Manager performs regular checks against key performance indicators using information available from the EarlyWatch Alert (EWA), Business Warehouse (BW) and the Computer Center Management System (CCMS). The checks can be for single systems or systems grouped into solutions. Reports run automatically on a weekly or monthly schedule but […]
Introducing the SAP Cybersecurity Framework 4.0
Cyber attacks are at epidemic levels. According to research performed by 360 Security, there were over 85 billion attacks in 2015, equivalent to 2000 attacks per second. The cost of data breaches continues to grow, year after year, and reached record levels in 2016. Juniper Research estimate that average costs will exceed $150M within three […]
RFC Hacking: How to Hack an SAP System in 3 Minutes
RFC exploits are hardly new. In fact, some of the well-known exploits demonstrated below are addressed by SAP Notes dating back several years. However, the disturbing fact is that the measures required to harden SAP systems against such exploits are not universally applied. As a result, many installations continue to be vulnerable to relatively simple […]