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By Jay Thoden van Velzen, Technical Advisor, Office of the CSOPeople say that “cloud is just someone else’s computer”. That obscures significant differences between data centers and enterprise IT on one side, and cloud services on the other. Security...

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By Jay Thoden van Velzen, Technical Advisor, Office of the CSOThe scale and impact of cyber attacks on companies and government institutions is increasing continuously. Protecting and responding to threats and attacks are therefore key components of ...

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By Jay Thoden van Velzen, Technical Advisor, Office of the Chief Security OfficerDue to my role at SAP, I am connected to the cybersecurity world as well as SAP security and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) which gives me a perspective into both...

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By Daniel Müller, GCID Asset & Configuration Management Lead, and Jay Thoden van Velzen, Technical Advisor, Office of the CSOWhenever we meet cybersecurity vendors, inevitably during the solution demo, we get to integration with ticketing systems, t...

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By Jay Thoden van Velzen, Office of the CSOSAP requires that its products and supporting services meet the security requirements set by the company. Inevitably, though, with SAP’s variety, complexity, and rate of change in the organization and its ...

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Note that we have an updated version of the RISE roles and responsibilities document (July 2024):https://www.sap.com/about/agreements/policies/hec-services.html?sort=latest_desc&search=rise&pdf-asset=780c2236-cc7e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b&page=1

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@mfallas to a large extent, this change has been ongoing for some time. I recently asked several colleagues within SAP whether they remembered when they last last needed SAP GUI for anything work related. Most of the responses were around 2009-2012. ...

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Hi Joris, It's currently in place at SAP only for internal use across the landscape. On the open source side, let's give it some time. It might, but that decision has not yet been taken. We are contributing on the detective controls side on the Chef...

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Culture makes a massive difference. A big part of it is to be comfortable with having people constantly look over each other's work (whether in development teams, DevOps or Operations), not to find blame, but to correct and improve. Leaders and senio...

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This is a real insightful angle to the problem of social engineering, and how to defend yourself against it. Thanks, Birgit!

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