SAP Security
for Cloud &
New
Technologies

New SAP technologies bring new opportunities, and new security challenges.

Expertum helps organizations secure SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, cloud applications and identity services through one integrated approach to security, identity and access.

SAP Security challenges in modern SAP landscapes

SAP environments are becoming increasingly connected. Organizations combine SAP S/4HANA with SAP BTP services, analytics, integrations and cloud applications, often alongside existing systems and corporate identity providers.

This creates new security challenges and amplifies existing ones.

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Different authorization models across SAP technologies

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Fragmented identity and access management

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Manual user and access administration

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Limited visibility across users, roles and authorizations

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Increasing compliance and governance requirements

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New security risks as cloud services and integrations are added

The challenge

It is not simply securing each SAP technology individually. It is maintaining security across the entire SAP landscape with an integrated approach as connectivity and complexity grow.

OUR SERVICES

SAP Security services

Expertum secures your modern SAP landscape across three key areas. From authentication and authorizations to governance and compliance, we keep access controlled across SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP and cloud applications.

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SAP Identity & Access

Centralize SAP authentication, Single Sign-On and user lifecycle management across SAP and corporate identity systems.

SAP Authorization

Design consistent SAP roles, authorizations and access controls across SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP and SAP cloud solutions

SAP Security Governance & Compliance

Establish clear SAP security standards and controls that support compliance and future growth.

Why Expertum?

We connect the dots across your SAP landscape

Our SAP security expertise spans technologies and platforms, allowing us to design security around the complete SAP environment rather than isolated solutions.

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Business-focused

We translate security requirements into practical solutions that work for users, administrators and the business.

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From concept to implementation

We support the full journey from assessing your current landscape and defining the security architecture to configuration and implementation.

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Built for change

Our security concepts are designed to evolve as your SAP landscape grows and new SAP technologies are introduced.

“What makes the difference in SAP security projects is understanding the complete picture. Too often, security is implemented separately for each new technology, creating inconsistencies and governance gaps over time. Our strength is connecting the dots across the entire SAP landscape, ensuring that security, compliance and user experience work together seamlessly.”

Chris Walravens
Group Competence Lead Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Expertum
Customer success

One identity and access framework across the SAP landscape

For Maxeda, Expertum designed and implemented a centralized identity and access management framework across SAP BTP, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud. SAP Cloud Identity Services was established as the central identity layer and integrated with Maxeda’s HR system and Microsoft Entra ID.

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Automated user onboarding and offboarding

Less manual administration and stronger compliance

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Single Sign-On with corporate Identity Providers

Multi-Factor Authentication for SAP BTP services

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Consistent access management across SAP technologies

A scalable security foundation for future SAP cloud innovation

The key benefit: one security approach across the complete SAP landscape.

Frequently asked questions

SAP Security for Cloud and New Technologies focuses on protecting modern SAP landscapes that combine cloud platforms, applications, analytics, integrations and identity services.

It covers identity and access management, authentication, Single Sign-On, authorization, secure integrations, governance and compliance.

The goal is to enable organizations to adopt new SAP technologies while maintaining secure and controlled access to business applications and data.

SAP BTP security involves several layers, including identity providers, authentication, authorization, user management and trust relationships between systems.

An effective SAP BTP security approach should also consider how BTP connects to SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Identity Services, corporate identity providers and other SAP or third-party applications.

Expertum helps organizations design and implement SAP BTP security as part of their wider SAP security architecture.

SAP Cloud Identity Services provides capabilities for authentication, Single Sign-On, identity provisioning and identity management across SAP and connected systems.

It can act as a central identity layer and integrate with corporate identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID.

This helps organizations create a consistent approach to identity and access management across their SAP landscape.

SAP Cloud Identity Services can integrate with corporate identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID.

This allows organizations to use their existing corporate identities for accessing SAP applications and cloud services, while SAP Cloud Identity Services provides the required SAP identity and authentication capabilities.

The result can be a more consistent user experience, centralized identity management and stronger access controls.

Modern SAP landscapes rarely consist of a single system. Users, identities, applications and data increasingly move between SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, analytics platforms, integrations and third-party services.

Securing each technology separately can create inconsistent controls and security gaps.

An integrated SAP security concept helps organizations maintain consistent access controls, improve governance, reduce administration and secure the connections between platforms.

Each SAP technology has its own authorization capabilities and security model.

The challenge is to align these different models with the organization’s business roles, access requirements and overall SAP security strategy.

Expertum designs authorization concepts that take the relationships between SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud and other SAP technologies into account.

Yes. Expertum supports the complete SAP security journey – from assessing the existing landscape and defining the security architecture to configuring and implementing security controls.

This combines SAP security strategy with hands-on implementation expertise.

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Secure your next SAP innovation

One connected SAP landscape needs one coherent security approach.

Expertum helps you build a secure and scalable SAP environment where identity, access, authorization, integrations and governance work together.

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