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SAP Basis Security: Are You Protecting Your Systems Right?

BSides Frankfurt · 20261:1264 viewsPublished 2026-03Watch on YouTube ↗
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SAP Basis teams often lack the skills to secure SAP systems, leading to production-only controls and flat networks. This leaves critical environments vulnerable. True security requires comprehensive protection across all stages. #SAPBasis #CyberSecurity #SAPSecurity #ITAdmin #Infosec
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discussion between SAP basis guys and ourselves on yes, you guys do not know how to protect those environments and you could test it. One other thing is that, you know, companies do is they really enforce some controls some controls only on production system. And there's a lot of staging levels for SAP system. So, you can imagine going from a development stage to a acceptance stage to a regression stage and yeah, we don't have to put controls there. We keep it flat network, no network segmentation. Amazing. But we can protect we can we should protect only the production environment. So, SAP basis team takes care of security. Think of SAP basis team as IT administrators. So, um

the skill set of actually protecting an SAP system is not there. So, they will not know how to even start or where to start from. Um there's a ongoing um uh what do you call it? Discussion between SAP basis guys and ourselves on yes, you guys do not know how to protect those environments and you could test it.