Backups are an exact copy of our organization's most important data. Such backups should be kept off the affected system - so that a potential failure or attack does not deprive us of access to all our data.

The concept of Entitlements, in addition to the entitlement reorganization project appears like a horror to audited managers and entitlement administrators. However, this is only the case if such documentation has not been kept in the organization or has not been updated for many years, and often since the implementation of SAP in the company. One could

You may already know that as of SAP 7.40 SP8, you can use SAP security policies (SECPOL) to define user-specific security parameters, as opposed to system profile values.

SAP HANA is the concept of fast access to in-memory data. It allows for the analysis of large, often unaggregated amounts of data, much faster than other databases. The way data is handled in SAP HANA is quite different from what we're used to with SAP NetWeaver. It has

Business doesn't like chaos and hates uncertainty Roles, permissions and authorizations in SAP is a river topic that we have covered several times. We've written about the dangers that arise from a lack of conceptualization of authorizations, poorly managed authorization procs and the associated risks to the organization. Today, in