Introduction
Data is the essence of all business operations. Be it Human Resource, Financial documentation, Materials Management or Planning, the commonality between all these departments is that they share data.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms enable various departments to talk to each other and exchange data between each other and authorized outsiders to drive operations. While this helps drive operations, on the flip side, there is the need to keep data secure at all times and in all hands.
Nowadays, organizations and their leadership are giving ‘due importance’ to data security. Unfortunately, they assume, often incorrectly, that traditional IT security practices of firewall, anti-virus along with password-protection practices would suffice.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. It is well known that amongst the greatest threat to data is not from hackers and malware, but by trusted ‘insiders’ who may be at any level in the corporate from employees to the leadership. Securing data from theft and misuse is, naturally, a growing concern of CIOs and CISOs.
Here are five popular use cases of how data is secured in across departments in an SAP environment
1. Human Resources Department – 50 Users
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The organization installed HALOCORE. This allowed IT and HR managers to identify which employees are downloading information, what information is being downloaded, how often it is being done, where it came from and where it is going.
Through enhanced auditing and logging features, the company now tracks movement and access to compliance sensitive HR data exported from SAP to adhere to state, federal and international regulatory and auditing requirements.
2. Finance Department – 1000 users
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3. Materials Management – 400 Users
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4. Product Planning – 125 Users
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5. SAP Crystal reports – 50 Users
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For organizations using SAP as their core ERP platform, SAP data security is critical since SAP is the repository where critical, sensitive, and confidential data across different business functions is stored.
Organizations must ensure securing SAP data from data theft and misuse by implementing stringent data protection strategies and policies in place.
With HALOCORE organizations will realize end-to-end data-centric protection to all their critical data and documents, be it in rest or motion as they leave SAP.
To know how SECUDE can protect your critical data, be it financial, IP, operations, customer or even about your employees, visit our HALOCORE page
HALOCORE was also used in applying persistent protection to HR data to keep in compliance with OSHA and FSLA regulations.
HALOCORE protection is based on Microsoft RMS policy and applies encryption directly to the data itself. HR specified policies are applied at every download so private data cannot be accessed by anyone except for authorized employees. It does not interfere with productivity or workflow as it is integrated into SAP.
HALOCORE was installed to apply data–centric protection to all data and documents as they leave SAP. All data is protected wherever it goes, whether in motion, in storage, on a laptop or mobile phone. In the event of a future network breach or cyber attack, all sensitive financial information will be protected with HALOCORE encryption. Unauthorized users cannot access the sensitive data regardless of where it is stolen from.
