Webinar: Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know to Stay Safe in the Cloud

Wednesday, October 4, 2017 | 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST
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Strategic business demands are compelling companies to embrace the cloud and business networks. As businesses move to a cloud environment, information security becomes increasingly central to their overall risk management initiatives.

Please join this webinar to learn about SAP Ariba’s holistic, multidimensional approach to support best practices and security controls to help protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of your information. We’ll share our security principles, including:

• Guarding your data against external and internal risks
• High availability, monitoring, and business continuity
• Effective risk management

Speaker: Lakshmi Hanspal, Chief Security Officer, SAP Ariba

15 Vulnerabilities in SAP HANA Outlined | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

15 Vulnerabilities in SAP HANA Outlined | Threatpost | The first stop for security news: "SAP recently fixed 15 different vulnerabilities that existed in the database management system HANA and subsequent communication channels used by the software. All told the vulnerabilities affect just north of 10,000 SAP customers running different versions of the system, according to researchers at Onapsis, who disclosed the bugs Thursday.

Uncovering Risk From SAP HANA Vulnerabilities Can Be Simple and Easy

Uncovering Risk From SAP HANA Vulnerabilities Can Be Simple and Easy: "The latest reports about SAP HANA vulnerabilities reveal some critical vulnerabilities related to authentication, authorizations, patches and misconfigurations, which could make SAP HANA systems a high risk for customers. If any of these known vulnerabilities are exploited, it could result in significant business loss to customers running SAP HANA in applications. Other consequences related to an exploit or data breach include failed compliance, brand reputation impact and declining customer trust resulting in churn."

Data Security – An Overview for Executive Board members [Part 1:Introduction & Concepts]

Introduction This post is a synthesis of a number of conversations and discussions concerning security practices for the digital aspect of organizations. These dialogs were initially with board members and executive-level personnel, but the focus of this discussion is equally useful to small business owners or anyone that is a stakeholder in an organization that […]


http://parasam.me/2015/03/16/data-security-an-overview-for-executive-board-members-part-1/

Data Security – An Overview for Executive Board members [Part 2: AccessControl]

Introduction In Part 1 of this topic we discussed the concepts and basic practices of digital security, and covered an overview of Data Security. In the next parts we’ll go on to cover in detail a few of the most useful parts of the Data Security model, and offer some practical solutions for good governance […]


http://parasam.me/2015/03/16/data-security-an-overview-for-executive-board-members-part-2/

Data Security – An Overview for Executive Board members [Part 3:Network Security]

Introduction In Part 2 of this series we reviewed Access Control – the beginning of a good Data Security policy. In this section we’ll move on to Network Security Controls: once a user has access to a device or data, almost all interactions today are with a network of devices, servers, storage, transmission paths, web […]


http://parasam.me/2015/03/18/data-security-an-overview-for-executive-board-members-part-3/

Data Security – An Overview for Executive Board Members [Part 4:Application Security]

Introduction In this section we’ll move on from Network Security (discussed in the last part) to the topic of Application Security. So far we’ve covered issues surrounding the security of basic access to devices (Access Control) and networks (Network Security), now we’ll look at an oft-overlooked aspect of a good Data Security model: how applications […]


http://parasam.me/2015/03/19/data-security-an-overview-for-executive-board-members-part-4/

Data Security – An Overview for Executive Board members [Part 5: DataCompartmentalization]

Introduction This part of the series will discuss Data Compartmentalization – the rational separation of devices, data, applications and communications access from each other and external entities. This strategy is paramount in the design of a good Data Security model. While it’s often overlooked, particularly in small business (large firms tend to have more experienced […]


http://parasam.me/2015/03/20/data-security-an-overview-for-executive-board-members-part-5/

Data Security – An Overview for Executive Board members [Part 6: CloudComputing]

Introduction In the last part of this series on Data Security we’ll tackle the subject of the Cloud – the relatively ‘new kid on the block’. Actually “cloud computing” has been around for a long time, but the concept and naming was ‘repackaged’ along the way. The early foundation for the Cloud was ARPANET (1969), […]


http://parasam.me/2015/03/21/data-security-an-overview-for-executive-board-members-part-6-cloud-computing/