Three Steps to Prevent a Sony-Scale Breach of Your SAP Systems
The recent attack experienced by Sony Pictures Entertainment may well prove to be the most significant breach of the year. By all measures, the impact has been devastating for the organization, leading to the loss of almost 40GB of data to attackers. This includes not only proprietary intellectual property such as digital media, blueprints and […]
How to Secure SAP Systems from Password Attacks
Exploiting weak password hashes is one of the most common and successful attack scenarios used against SAP systems. The availability of open-source programs such as Hashcat and John the Ripper enables even novice hackers to perform attacks against SAP passwords. In fact, Hashcat is capable of breaking any SAP password encoded using the BCODE hash […]
SAP HANA: The Challenges of In-Memory Computing
This article is an extract from the forthcoming white paper entitled Security in SAP HANA by Layer Seven Security. The paper is scheduled for release in November 2013. Please follow this link to download the publication. According to research performed by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the volume of digital information in the world is […]
Layered Defenses in Oracle 12c: The New Benchmark for Database Security
Oracle databases support more than two thirds of SAP deployments in mid to large size enterprises. Oracle’s domination of the SAP database market is due to a widely regarded performance edge in areas such as compression, availability and scalability. Oracle databases are also optimized for SAP technology as a result of a long-standing partnership between […]