ERPScan Extends Support for New ISACA and DSAG SAP Security Guidelines

Palo Alto, CA, November 26, 2015 (Newswire.com) - ERPScan Security Monitoring Suite for SAP is acknowledged as the only solution to cover three crucial aspects of ERP security – identification, analysis, and remediation of vulnerabilities, custom code issues and SoD violations. The functionality of the revamped solutions includes special checks against the newest versions of guidelines developed by ISACA and DSAG.

ISACA is an international association of professionals in information security, assurance, risk management and governance. DSAG (The German-speaking SAP User Group) aims to encourage the exchange of experiences and knowledge among SAP customers as well as with SAP. Both ISACA and DSAG are focused on providing best SAP security practices to proactively mitigate SAP security risks. As a part of this mission, ISACA and DSAG update their guidelines on the regular basis to keep SAP customers up to date with the latest security threats and ways to remediate them.

ERPScan Security Monitoring Suite for SAP simplifies achieving the compliance with different guides, standards, and best practices by regular automatic checks. Moreover, our solution constantly monitors what happens in the SAP Security area and adds checks from the latest versions of SAP Security guidelines regularly.

Alexander Polyakov, CTO

ISACA’s Security, Audit and Control Features SAP ERP has been renewed recently. The 4th edition includes the following new features: risk, controls and assessment techniques to audit SAP FI/CO, HCM, BASIS, an overview of the SAP GRC Suite, updated Sarbanes-Oxley control objectives, and a list of sensitive tables and transaction codes.

DSAG provides a set of recommendations covering all security areas from technical configuration and source code to access control and management procedures.The latest version was released in May 2015.

The implementation of all those checks requires a lot of time and resources, as the significant part of them has to be done manually. Fortunately, all these checks are already available in ERPScan Security Monitoring Suite for SAP.

"ERPScan Security Monitoring Suite for SAP simplifies achieving the compliance with different guides, standards, and best practices by regular automatic checks. Moreover, our solution constantly monitors what happens in the SAP Security area and adds checks from the latest versions of SAP Security guidelines regularly." – adds Alexander Polyakov, CTO at ERPScan.

ERPScan makes it easy to meet requirements included in the most credible and renowned SAP Security guides, constantly monitors updates and takes into account all the changes.