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22179 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 23 96 95 12-0

Pathlock is the leading security & GRC specialist for SAP and hybrid landscapes.

 

Pathlock is the leading security & GRC specialist for SAP, S/4HANA, multivendor and hybrid ERP systems. With 500 employees at 15 locations worldwide, we advise more than 1200 customers. Pathlock combines comprehensive software, high expertise and established best practice methods for the protection of business-critical applications, data and processes. We support companies in detecting anomalies, hacker attacks, manipulation and data theft.

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Interface Management: The open barn door in SAP

An open secret to which many management teams have so far paid little attention: the lack of control of interfaces in IT system landscapes. The fact that interface management was neglected was hardly surprising when SAP landscapes were still self-contained.
IT systems. However, this situation has changed fundamentally.

The new SAP licensing model can be expensive!

Until now, it was primarily a security issue when companies simply migrated their existing roles to S/4 without checking them. With the new licensing model, however, overly generous authorizations lead to a real explosion in costs.

Customized Masking

From protected personal to privileged financial information:
SAP applications contain large amounts of sensitive data. These always also harbor risks that companies must counter.

A new understanding of security

One realization these days is that security is a vulnerable commodity. Critical infrastructures such as nuclear power plants and hospitals are becoming targets of warlike aggression, and at the same time cyberattacks are increasing on an unprecedented scale.

Works after all! Agile Authorization Management in S/4HANA

Classic entitlement projects are based on a monolithic approach with a linear sequence of project phases with milestones. In an ideal project environment, where both the project drivers and the end state are known, this may work.

After the Test is the Same as Before the Test

Every year, as every SAP and security manager knows, the auditor's audit is due. And yet there is often uncertainty about the current risk situation of SAP systems.

Quickly and securely to S/4HANA Role Conversion

Roozbeh Noori-Amoli and Alina Demuth from SAST SOLUTIONS explain why authorization concepts can determine the success and dynamics of the S/4HANA transformation using the example of their authorization project at PUMA SE, its challenges, solutions and learnings.

The secure role conversion in S/4 Hana migration

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The changeover to S/4 is picking up speed: Most companies in Germany are in the concrete planning phase or are in the process of converting. However, those responsible often do not take SAP security and compliance into account at the same time.

Self-Adjusting Authorizations

It Security

Companies make their SAP authorization process too easy, which, according to current findings, leads to users having 75 percent more authorizations than they need. The motto is: Clean up.

Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the second time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

More information will follow shortly.

Event date

Wednesday, May 21, and
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Early Bird Ticket

Available until Friday, January 24, 2025
EUR 390 excl. VAT

Regular ticket

EUR 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, March 5, and
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Early Bird Ticket

Available until December 20, 2024

EUR 390 excl. VAT
The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2025, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.