An Economist article published in June 2024 claimed that China is actively targeting US SMEs for long-term sabotage and for financial gain through sustained IP theft. With China using previously undetected methods of ‘cyber warfare’, it’s increasingly important that US companies adopt Zero Trust protection for their most valuable IP data.

SAP recently announced the end-of-life for SAP Identity Manager (IDM). This announcement required SAP to establish guidelines for existing customers to transition away from the platform with other products. One Identity is a leading vendor of choice for this migration due to its well-established market presence and robust SAP solutions support. In this two-part blog series, we will shed some light on how One Identity can seamlessly integrate with SAP products, starting with its certified ABAP connector.

In part two of this blog series, we will look at how One Identity can support SAP environments from an Identity and Access Management (IAM) perspective. As SAP Identity Management (IDM) reaches its end-of-maintenance, customers will need to explore alternatives for their identity management landscapes. Here is a list of some key elements to consider.

As the curtains close for year 2023, the financial impact of cyberattacks on the global economy is predicted to reach $10.5 trillion. It is imperative for IT managers to be aware of the evolving landscape. Let’s see what will shape the cybersecurity arena in the coming year. From a data-centric perspective, we have identified 7 trends that will be important for data security.

The manufacturing industry has undergone a huge digital transformation in recent years. While these changes have increased productivity, the industry has also experienced new pressures from cybersecurity. In 2022, the industry has been vulnerable to 250 data violation incidents in the United States alone costing nearly 23.9 million USD. More and more industries are finding their intellectual property (IP) at risk as threat actors become more sophisticated.

Business-critical applications such as ERP, SCM, CRM, PLM, and others support essential business functions and processes for the world’s largest commercial and government organizations. This includes supply chain, manufacturing, finance, sales and services, and defense. Many businesses in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) utilize SAP in their ERP landscape.

Does your company run SAP applications? If you do, you know how difficult it can be to manage identities. Most of the time, SAP applications are siloed and run completely independently of the rest your IT environment. This makes provisioning users across your SAP and non-SAP platforms a challenge at minimum and at worst, an impossible task. One Identity Manager provides comprehensive certified integration with SAP products.

Vertical risk management and complete identity governance can only be achieved through the integration of critical platforms with other systems and applications in use and by either integrating existing point solutions or reducing their number altogether. Integration of an identity platform with SAP is one of those major challenges for many organizations today.