DT: Achieving Baseline Security within the SAP Environment
Hosted By: Digital Transformation
Abstract:
Managing the risk of an interconnected business systems challenges all companies, large and small. The number and intensity of attacks on SAP systems increases daily. Even the US government is now issuing CERTs for vulnerabilities that have been known for some time. At the same time, increased regulation forces greater disclosure and increases liability.
In this session, we will provide an overview of SAP security aspects and what companies need to do to establish a foundation of security to build upon. We will cover everything from access authorization to enterprise threat detection.
Speaker:
Dr. Markus Schumacher; Virtual Forge
Dr. Markus Schumacher is co-founder and CEO of Virtual Forge GmbH. Previously, he was the representative of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) and there also head of the department “security and embedded Devices”. Before he joined Frauenhofer Institute, he worked at SAP AG as a Product Manager (SAP NetWeaver Security) and head of the TCO project at the new SME Business ByDesign solution.
During his time as a researcher and director of IT Transfer Office of the TU Darmstadt Markus Schumacher has initiated the nationally acclaimed course “hacking contest”. The participants each have current security issues examined alternately from the perspective of attackers and defenders. Markus Schumacher holds a PhD in computer science field, many papers and books (most recently Security Patterns: Integrating Security and Systems Engineering, 2006) and speaks regularly at international conferences and trade shows.
