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Introducing CSA Validation in SAP Cloud ALM: What’s Live, What’s Next, and How You Can Shape it

Lingscheid
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Product and Topic Expert
4 weeks ago
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Introducing CSA (Configuration & Security Analysis) Validation in SAP Cloud ALM

What’s Live, What’s Next, and How You Can Shape (CEI) Customer Engagement Initiatives.


We’re excited to announce the first release of CSA Validation in SAP Cloud ALM, bringing initial sample checks to help you continuously assess your SAP security posture. As of today you’ll see a new “CSA Validation” launchpad tile in your SAP Cloud ALM tenant and in the SAP Cloud ALM Demo Tenant. You can also access the validation from the existing CSA application (labeled “CSA – Data Stores”). The new tile is a technical addition—authorization and features remain under one CSA application.

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Why CSA, and why now?

With SAP Solution Manager retiring by the end of 2027, many customers need a new home for configuration and security analysis. SAP Cloud ALM Configuration & Security Analysis (CSA) is designed to deliver centralized visibility, continuous validation, and governance so you can transition from Solution Manager while modernizing your approach.

Shape the roadmap through the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI)

  • What CEI is: SAP’s program for customers to collaborate directly with product teams, provide feedback, preview features, and influence priorities.
  • How it works: Regular feedback calls, early feature previews in demo/preview tenants, structured feedback channels (surveys, workshops), and transparent roadmap sharing.
  • Benefits for participants: Influence capabilities to fit real-world security and compliance needs, gain early visibility of features and best practices, validate against your landscape, and get a direct line to SAP experts.

 

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What is CSA in SAP Cloud ALM?

  • Purpose: Validate the security posture of SAP cloud and hybrid landscapes against SAP’s Security Baseline Template and SAP Security Recommendations.
  • How it works: Collects configuration and runtime signals from SAP cloud services and ABAP/on-prem systems; runs prebuilt validations (with a roadmap for custom checks); provides findings with severity, remediation guidance, dashboards, and audit-ready evidence.
  • Value: Centralized, continuous visibility of security gaps; faster remediation with prioritized guidance; alignment with clean-core and cloud governance; reduced audit effort and improved compliance readiness.

 

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What’s coming next

  • CSA home screen updated to reflect validation results
  • Ongoing enhancement of preconfigured validations with additional checks
  • Q1 2026 goal to enable customizable reporting on critical and standard requirements from SAP Security Baseline Template and SAP Security Recommendations (limited to already onboarded services)
  • Enhanced data collectors for ABAP systems (on‑prem) and cloud services
  • Event creation from CSA checks
  • Authoring of custom checks and a policy concept for context‑sensitive reporting
  • Roadmap update: Publication in progress

Objectives and outcomes of the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI) for Cloud ALM CSA

  • Co-innovate on CSA capabilities to replace and modernize Solution Manager Configuration Validation use cases.
  • Validate simplification concepts that accelerate delivery while preserving essential security controls.
  • Prioritize features based on real customer scenarios, pilot results, and proof-of-concepts.

Transition guidance: From Solution Manager to Cloud ALM CSA

  • Expect a side‑by‑side period: Security processes may run in both tools for the next two years.
  • Focus on intelligent simplification: Some tradeoffs vs. SolMan are intentional to speed time‑to‑value while preserving essential security capabilities.
  • Prioritize high‑value controls: Start with SAP Security Baseline and Recommendations; expand as preconfigured validations grow.

Call to action

  • Explore the new CSA Validation tile in your SAP Cloud ALM tenant or the demo tenant.

Together, we can evolve CSA to deliver stronger, cleaner, and more compliant SAP operations—helping you move beyond Solution Manager with confidence while embracing cloud‑ready governance.

CEI Link (Registration ended on Mar 30, 2025 00:59)

Kind regards,

Arndt Lingscheid

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