The importance of SAP Maintenance
The June 2014 security breach of U.S. Investigations Services Inc. (USIS), the biggest commercial provider of background investigations to the federal US government, exposed personal information of thousands of Government Employees. This resulted in USIS laying off 2,500 staff, losing 2.8 billion in contracts and going bankrupt.
In May 2015 it was revealed the hack most likely exploited an unpatched or zero-day SAP vulnerability in order to gain access to the internal network as outlined in following article: Chinese Breach of U.S. Investigations Services Inc. (USIS) Started with SAP
The lessons from this are:
- Risk management starts by being up to date on your SAP maintenance
- Business Systems are highly connected
- SAP has the tools and best practices to help protect your business
- Ensure Solution Manager is set-up properly for technical monitoring of all your systems
If you do not have a clear SAP Maintenance and Security Strategy that addresses the potential business risks, then start by taking the below free SAP Expert Guided Implementation of Security.
Security Optimization Service (SOS) – 16 to 20 May
Also review SAP’s best practices:
SAP Security Optimization Services Portfolio
EGI’s – North America Schedule for April 2016:
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- Basic Configuration of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 – 11 to 15 Apr
- Business Intelligence Monitoring & Troubleshooting – Booked
- Configuration Validation – 25 to 27 Apr
- Custom Code Lifecycle Management: Make Your Custom Code Efficient – 18 to 21 Apr
- Custom Development Management Cockpit – Booked
- Job Scheduling Management – 11 to 15 Apr
- Roles and Authorization Concept – 25 to 29 Apr
- SAP HANA (5 of 6) - Data Modelling – Booked
- SAPUI5 App Development with OData and SAP Web IDE – 18 to 21 Apr
- Solution Documentation I: Basic, Initial Upload,Verification – 25 to 28 Apr
- System Consolidation & Rollout of Country Versions – 27 to 29 Apr
- Test Management III: Test Automation Framework with HP QTP – 18 to 20 Apr
Meet the Expert (1-hour presentation – replays available):
- Check out the replays
- Introduction to Data Aging – 04 Apr
- SAP SuccessFactors Learning Management System: 2015 Innovation Highlights – 5 Apr
- SAP Value Map Pilot for SAP Cloud for Customer: Info-Session – 12 Apr
- SAP Data Services & SAP Information Steward: Windows AD/Kerberose SSO – 21 Apr
- IFRS 15 / ASC 606 Info Day – Part 1: Why is IFRS 15 a challenge – 27 Apr
- IFRS 15 / ASC 606 Info Day – Part 2: The SAP Solution – 27 Apr
- IFRS 15 / ASC 606 Info Day – Part 3: System Configuration and Migration – 27 Apr
North America Schedule for May 2016:
- Basic Configuration of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 – 16 to 20 May
- Business Intelligence Monitoring & Troubleshooting – 23 to 25 May
- Business Process Analytics and Improvement (BPAI) – 30 May to 3 Jun
- Change Control Management III: Change Request Mgmt – 16 to 19 May
- Custom Code Lifecycle Management: Make Your Custom Code Efficient – 23 to 26 May
- Custom Code Quality and Clones – 16 to 19 May
- Custom Development Management Cockpit – 16 to 19 May
- Data Volume Management (DVM) – 23 to 27 May
- Incident, Problem Management (ITSM) – 16 to 20 May
- Performance Optimization (PERF) – 2 to 6 May
- SAP HANA (2 of 6) - Database Administration and Operations – 9 to 13 May
- SAP HANA (3 of 6) - Advanced Database Monitoring – 16 to 20 May
- SAP HANA (4 of 6) - Make your Custom Code Ready – 9 to 11 May
- SAP HANA (5 of 6) - Data Modelling – 23 to 27 May
- SAP Mobile: SAP Mobile Secure: Cloud based Enterprise Mobility Management – 9 to 11 May
- SAP Solution Manager 7.1 configuration SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 – 23 to 27 May
- SAP Solution Manager Scope & Effort Analyzer – 9 to 11 May
- Security Optimization Service (SOS) – 16 to 20 May
- System Monitoring & Reporting – 9 to 12 May
- Test Management IV: Test Automation Framework with CBTA – 16 to 18 May
Meet the Expert (1-hour presentation – replays available):
- Check out the replays
- Data Volume Management in Supplier Relationship Management – 5 of May
- Wdeploy Overview for SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward – 19 May
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