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- 10 Best Practices for Enforcing Data Security, Control, and Consistency in the Software Logistics Process
by Kehinde Eseyin, Systems Support Manager, TOTAL Nigeria PLC, Nigeria (March 2010)
Learn important best practices, tips, and guidelines that are invaluable for ensuring that the process of making changes and transporting changed data in the SAP ABAP system is well secured against possible security threats and risks.
- 5 Tips for Securing Communication Between SAP Systems and External Programs
by Kehinde Eseyin, Systems Support Manager, TOTAL Nigeria PLC, Nigeria (July 2010)
Learn how to prevent the illegal and malicious starting of external programs in your SAP environment.
- Best Practices for Secure Programming in SAP NetWeaver
by Kehinde Eseyin, Systems Support Manager, TOTAL Nigeria PLC, Nigeria (August 2009)
Review best practices that you should employ in application development with particular emphasis on the functionalities available in SAP NetWeaver that guarantee secure programming.
- Combat Chaos with a Lock-Down Security Policy in 12 Key Areas of Your SAP Environment
by Kehinde Eseyin, Systems Support Manager, TOTAL Nigeria PLC, Nigeria (June 2009)
Security policies and procedures should be a central concern of all employees of an organization. Review important areas of the SAP ERP system that has to be driven by effective security policies.
- How PCI Security Compliance Requirements Affect Your SAP System
by Eric Bushman, Director of SAP Solutions, Paymetric, Inc.
Card issuers are requiring merchants, banks, service providers, and card processors to take stringent measures to protect stored data. Establishing user security roles and minimizing end-user access to non-encrypted card data within your SAP system is essential for compliance.
- Improve Traceability with SAP Solution Manager
by D. Russell Sloan, IBM Global Business Services, Implementation and Governance Specialist — SAP Solution Manager (July 2010)
With the advent of Sarbanes-Oxley and other compliance rules, the need for full traceability across a solution development effort is expanding far beyond just the pharmaceutical industry. SAP Solution Manager has a collection of features that enable your project to provide end-to-end visibility to all aspects of solution development and delivery. From initial design through final testing and signoff, SAP Solution Manager allows you to link and trace all the activities, documents, and technical objects needed to deliver your solution.
- Keep Track of Components with the Reuse Library
by Anurag Barua, Manager, SAP Application Support, The Washington Post
The reuse library is enhanced starting with Enterprise Release 4.7, making it a handy mini-knowledge warehouse that can complement other knowledge management tools.
- Make Your Dashboards Secure: Strategies and Options
by Anurag Barua, Senior Manager (December 2009)
While there is widespread recognition of the value that dashboards generate, there is also an incipient apprehension that they are not secure. Walk through some ways you can validate the security in dashboards using Xcelsius as an example, while maintaining the user-friendliness that is expected in a dashboard.
- Monitor Compliance with the New US DOL's FairPay Overtime Initiative
by Danielle Larocca Signorile, Senior SAP Consultant
To ensure compliance with the US Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) new FairPay law, your company must identify workers who earn less than $23,660 per year or $455 per week to confirm that they are configured to be eligible for overtime. The author shows you how to set up an audit to identify these employees using SAP Query.
- Protect Sensitive Personal Information in SAP HR
by Greg Robinette, SAP HR and HR Privacy Consultant, Robinette Industries and Consulting LLC
The SAP HR system often inadvertently exposes sensitive information. Follow this procedure to keep employees’ personal information such as Social Security numbers and other unique identifiers out of the wrong hands.
- Quick Tip: 10 Best Practices for Developing and Implementing SAP Security Policies
by Kehinde Eseyin, Systems Support Manager, TOTAL Nigeria PLC, Nigeria (June 2009)
There are good and bad ways of setting up a security policy in your organization. See 10 areas that deserve consideration when making your policy.
- Quick Tip: Implement SSL Certificates from Visual Administrator to Meet Security Needs
by Ameya Pimpalgaonkar, SAP NetWeaver Consultant, L&T Infotech (October 2009)
Follow this process when you want to secure your SAP NetWeaver Portal with SSL quickly, but don’t want to change your corporate portal security settings. This process also avoids certificate conflicts that may arise.
- Quick Tip: Safeguard the Message Server via Security-Centric Parameterization
by Kehinde Eseyin, Systems Support Manager, TOTAL Nigeria PLC, Nigeria (February 2010)
Learn how you can enhance the security of the message server by setting profile parameters appropriately.
- SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: How to Effectively Secure Dimensions within a Hierarchy
by Madhavi Lokireddy, Senior SAP Security Consultant, Capgemini (March 2010)
Member access profiles in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation are a fairly straightforward concept, but it can get tricky when you are assigning read, write, or denied access to individual members in a node and a parent within a hierarchy. Discover some tips to keep in mind while securing hierarchical dimensions.
- Simplify Maintenance and Security with User Groups
by Anurag Barua, Senior Manager (November 2008)
User groups are a convenient technique to group users and treat them as one entity in terms of their privileges and behavior. See a method for setting them up in your system with some considerations from a security and user administration perspective.
- Speed Up Security Testing Using eCATT
by Jayesh Narwaney, Senior SAP Support Specialist
The Extended Computer Aided Test Tool (eCATT), successor of SAP’s CATT, can test a wide range of SAP applications running in the SAPGUI for Windows or Java environments. It can also access data in the database (including customizing data) and ABAP coding on the application server. See how to use eCATT to speed up testing over multiple users.
- Streamline Period-End Closing with Authorization Groups
by John Jordan, President, ERP-Corp
When you need to permit a select group of users to post to a previous period, you can use authorization groups to automate access. This prevents unauthorized users from posting to the previous period without requiring you to adjust the posting settings manually after a period closes.
- Tackle Option Pricing with SAP NetWeaver BI
by Daniel C. Wood, Lecturer, Arizona State University, and Lipika Sur, Business System Analyst
Perform derivative analysis using the Black-Scholes model in the SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence system to address security concerns.
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