STORY ROBERT BUDIC
SECURITY& PRIVACY
BY DESIGN
In this article Robert Budic, Director of Turnkey Consulting, discusses why leaving security of your systems as an afterthought is no longer an option and suggests key considerations to ensure that the security and privacy of your S/4 SAP transformation project is by design.
Robert Budic
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nderstanding how to integrate security into your SAP digital transformation project can be a daunting challenge for any organisation. These projects are highly complex, involve multiple teams, external ecosystems and have very ambitious, sometimes even unrealistic, delivery timeframes.
Without appropriate security and privacy controls built in from the start of these programs to keep these new systems safe, you will be unable to deliver on security and privacy by design principles and potentially be exposing your organisation to the increased risk of insider/cyber-attack threats and in breach of regulatory requirements.
Becoming a more digital organisation also means you will inevitably become a more open organisation, and therefore a more vulnerable organisation with a much wider cyber-attack surface – making a focus on security more important than ever.
Leaving security of your systems as an afterthought is simply no longer an option.
If you’re already underway with or evaluating your move to any flavour of SAP S/4HANA, then it’s likely your organisation will be investing significant time, money, and resources on what is a critical technical upgrade and a digital transformation program.
Our Observations of the Australian Market Majority of organisations are entering this phase of transformation with a considerable amount of security debt, driven by:
• Long periods of significant
underinvestment in security of SAP systems
