Author: Ralf Kempf, Pathlock

An open secret to which many management teams have so far paid little attention: the lack of control of interfaces in IT system landscapes. It was hardly surprising that interface management was neglected when SAP landscapes were still self-contained IT systems. However, this situation has changed fundamentally.

Until now, it was primarily a security issue when companies simply migrated their existing roles to S/4 without checking them. With the new licensing model, however, overly generous authorizations lead to a real explosion in costs.

From protected personal to privileged financial information: SAP applications contain large amounts of sensitive data. These always also harbor risks that companies must counter.

One realization these days is that security is a vulnerable commodity. Critical infrastructures such as nuclear power plants and hospitals are becoming targets of warlike aggression, and at the same time cyberattacks are increasing on an unprecedented scale.