Monitoring USER ACTIVITIES in SAP Systems Using SAGESSE TECH Solutions and IBM QRadar

Your organization needs to be in a constant and vigilant state of security when it comes to monitoring user account activity, especially in these times of excessive employee churn and remote access. Continuously monitoring user activity and behavior at the granular level provides valuable visibility into how users engage with data and what they do with their access. For example, application-level logging can’t track or show you if a hacker or malicious insider changes a vendor's bank account information to route payments run into another account.

Monitoring user accounts in SAP systems is crucial for several reasons:

1. Security and Risk Management: High privileged accounts have extensive access to critical systems and data. If these accounts are compromised, it can lead to severe security breaches, data theft, and unauthorized access to sensitive information. Monitoring helps detect and prevent malicious activities.

2. Compliance: Organizations must adhere to various regulatory requirements and industry standards (e.g., GDPR, SOX). Regular monitoring ensures that privileged accounts are being used appropriately and helps in demonstrating compliance during audits.

3. Preventing Abuse and Fraud: Users with high privileges can make significant changes to the system. Monitoring these accounts helps in identifying potential abuse, such as unauthorized data changes, system configurations, or fraudulent activities.

4. Accountability: By tracking the activities of privileged accounts, organizations can ensure accountability. It helps in understanding who did what and when, making it easier to investigate incidents and take corrective actions.

5. System Integrity: Monitoring helps maintain the integrity of the SAP system by ensuring that changes and access are legitimate. It helps in identifying and addressing configuration changes that could affect system performance or security.

6. Incident Response: In case of a security incident, having logs and monitoring data for privileged accounts can accelerate incident response and forensic investigations. It provides valuable insights into the nature and scope of the incident.

7. Best Practices: It is a security best practice to continuously monitor high privileged accounts as part of an overall strategy for managing and securing IT systems. It ensures that these powerful accounts are not misused, whether intentionally or accidentally.

Overall, monitoring high privileged accounts is a proactive measure to protect SAP systems from internal and external threats, ensuring the security, compliance, and integrity of critical business processes and data.

SAGESSE TECH, global SAP Security / Oracle Security / ERP Security Tech Company, is providing SAP Threat Detection and Monitoring Products, SAP PenTest Framework and an SAP Audit Service which control these kinds of configurations, vulnerabilities and much more in your SAP Systems. Their products and services can help you to integrate your SAP System into your central threat detection solutions and foster your NIS2 / DORA and ISO 27001 Compliance.

Additionally, you can contact SAGESSE TECH(E-mail : [email protected] or [email protected] ), if you would like to have a Vulnerability Scanning, SAP Audit or SAP PenTest on your SAP Systems.