Security and Authorizations for SAP Business Technology Platform

Learn what it takes to protect SAP Business Technology Platform! Walk through the cloud security mechanisms of SAP BTP (formerly SAP Cloud Platform). See how to set up users and permissions for your unique circumstances and configure secure connection to cloud and on-premise systems. Work with SAP BTP’s administration tools, including the command line interface and APIs. With information on safeguarding key cloud services, this guide will leave you confident in your cloud system’s security!

• Configure security for the Neo and Cloud Foundry environments
• Set up secure connections with the cloud connector
• Protect key cloud services like SAP Business Application Studio and SAP Integration Suite

In this book, you’ll learn about:

Authorizations and Authentication

Manage authorizations using roles and user groups and set up the necessary identity providers. Walk through practical examples of authentication using two-factor authentication and Microsoft Azure Active Directory.

Secure Connections

From configuring destinations to retrieving audit logs, see how to set up the cloud connector and secure your hybrid system landscapes and APIs.

Neo and Cloud Foundry

Whether your service instances are running in the Neo or Cloud Foundry environment, you’ll learn all the important security configurations.

Highlights include:

• Accounts and spaces
• Secure communication
• Identity provider
• SAP Cloud Identity Services
• SAP BTP, Neo environment
• SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment
• Cloud connector
• Users and roles
• APIs
• Command line

About the Author

Martin Koch is the managing director of CloudDNA GmbH, an SAP partner in Austria. He and his team conduct training for SAP and have developed four of their own training courses on the topics of SAPUI5, SAP Fiori, cloud integration, and cloud security, which are listed in the SAP training catalog. In addition to his work as a trainer, Martin Koch works as an architect, consultant, and developer for international SAP customers of all company sizes.

Originally trained as an airline pilot and air traffic controller, he participated in a trainee program at SAP Austria in 2007. There, he initially worked on the topics of integration and SAP NetWeaver AS for Java. In 2010, his focus shifted to mobile applications in the SAP environment. After several projects on the architecture, security, and development of mobile solutions, in 2012, Martin Koch focused on SAP HANA, SAPUI5, SAP Fiori, and SAP Business Technology Platform.

Siegfried Zeilinger is a freelancer and managing director of a small management consultancy. His focus is on consulting and security auditing of IT systems as well as authorization and identity management for SAP. His consulting portfolio ranges from SAP architecture to development strategies for ABAP, Java, and the cloud to SAP identity management. In 2016, he received certification as an IT auditor (CISA). Most recently, Siegfried has worked primarily in the pharmaceutical industry and the public sector.

Before becoming self-employed in 2011, he worked for SAP Austria as an SAP NetWeaver and portal consultant and carried out major international projects. Today, he regularly conducts training courses for SAP on the topics of authorizations, SAP in the cloud, and SAP NetWeaver. From 2003 to 2019, he supervised theses at the Vienna University of Technology and the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt and held various courses in the field of SAP.