Digital transformation is a broad term that describes a wide range of enterprise customers’ efforts to reorient their operations to make data, and the value they can extract, the core of their business. In practice, this requires customers to make a series of technical decisions about how they will deliver their product or service, and where their business data will live.

Because of the required combination of scale, performance and flexibility, at some point digital transformation with SAP will involve the cloud. On their journey, customers will have to decide if they run their workloads on-premises or in the cloud, whether their cloud investments will be in a private or public deployment, and to use infrastructure, platform or software as a service models. To balance competing interests, and navigate an array of available technical options, they are likely to adopt a hybrid ‘all of the above’ approach. Given the quantities of data involved, much of it sensitive, and the complexity of these environments, security will be an important component of these projects.

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A Guide to Securing Sensitive Data During Your SAP Digital Transformation - Whitepaper

Thales and SAP have partnered to provide an integrated data protection solution for SAP applications. Thales CipherTrust Tokenization now secures SAP application data via the SAP Data Custodian. Via the SAP Data Custodian, SAP customers can choose to tokenize specific fields and assign access policies that determine which users have access to sensitive data. Specific functions such as HR, Finance, and Legal may all have access to the same application, but have permissions to see different application fields. Any field that isn’t authorized will show token values in place of real data.

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Thales supports external, multi-cloud key lifecycle management for SAP applications via its integration with the SAP Data Custodian. Using CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager, organizations can seamlessly manage the key life cycle of the encryption securing their SAP applications – all from the same single pane of glass they use to protect their other cloud encryption deployments. By adding CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager to their SAP deployment, highly-regulated customers can externally root and manage their encryption keys, or generate their own keys for use in their SAP applications.

Whether organizations take advantage of SAP’s native encryption functionality or bring their own keys to the SAP encryption conversation, CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager simplifies key lifecycle administration and reduces the effort of demonstrating data sovereignty and regulatory compliance.

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Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform offers the only SAP-certified third-party encryption and tokenization solutions for SAP. Partnering with Dell, Thales supports customers’ SAP modernization strategies whether on-premises or in any cloud scenario. Through the Dell/Thales partnership, organizations can take advantage of file-level encryption, application-level tokenization, or centralized cloud key management to secure their sensitive SAP data across an array of Dell deployment options from on-premises hardware, Dell APEX or Dell-managed hybrid or multi-cloud implementations.

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SAP HANA is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed by SAP. Deployable on premises or in the cloud, SAP HANA lets organizations accelerate business processes, deliver more business intelligence, and simplify their IT environment. By providing the foundation for all data needs, SAP HANA removes the burden of maintaining separate legacy systems and siloed data, so organizations can run live and make better business decisions in the new digital economy.

SAP HANA works with Thales CipherTrust Transparent Encryption to create and enforce policies to protect data and log volumes, and prevent unauthorized system administrator, root user, and privileged users from accessing data. CipherTrust Transparent Encryption also encrypts data and log volumes in a cloud service provider infrastructure – allowing the customer to be the custodian of the encryption keys. CipherTrust Transparent Encryption can be quickly deployed to secure data – requiring no change to SAP, the underlying database, or hardware infrastructure. The approach enables enterprises to meet data governance requirements with rigorous separation of duties.

Thales provides a proven approach to securing SAP data that meets rigorous security, data governance, and compliance requirements. Whether securing an existing SAP deployment or upgrading to a new version, Thales delivers a proven approach to quickly secure SAP data while ensuring continued operation at optimal performance. Thales is a SAP Silver Partner, and CipherTrust Transparent Encryption has been qualified to work in SAP HANA solution environments.

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SAP software utilizes electronic documents to streamline business operations and communication across departments, such as procurement, manufacturing, customer service, sales, finance, and human resources. Together with HSMs from Thales, businesses gain a secure, trusted solution for secure digital signing.

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