During a course called ADM960 at SAP, we covered numerous topics which included the fundamental concepts of authentication, encryption and network infrastructure, configuration of single sign-on, certificates-based authentication, system auditing in AS ABAP, AS Java, etc. Despite the fact that I haven’t had previous hands-on knowledge on SAP technologies and administration, I found the overall concepts pretty simple. My experience in security-related issues helped me out. All the exercises aided me in raising my awareness about security topics in SAP NetWeaver Application Server 7.00. I learned some basic transactions for password and roles auditing. I also found the configuration of SAProuter and trusted relationship to be somewhat interesting.
There are several things to remember:
- Pay attention to SAP standard users like “SAP*”. Remember that the configuration may differ depending on the system you’re using: ABAP or Java. This standard user always uses “pass” as the password. You have to clone that account and block the original one (remove all authorizations).
- Monitor services which you are actually using (including system services) and block all others.
- You can use the “se95” transaction to monitor changes.
- Use the “RSECNOTE” tool to check for critical security updates.
- For ABAP system monitoring use transaction “sm19” for audit configuration and “sm20” for log monitoring. For Java go to: SAP Netweaver Administration – System Management- Monitoring – Logs and Traces
- Use the “suim” transaction for users monitoring: authorizations, roles and account change control.
- Use the “rz20” transaction to access Alert monitor.
The “sa38” transaction is used to run reports.
For more information please refer to the original SAP Security Guidance
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