Securing Anexgate
Securing Anexgate
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Business Challenge
SAP Business Softwares has become the defacto standard for SME , Medium and Large enterprises for business management software . with more than 76000 customers its no wonder that SAP is recognized as leader in business management software . SAP server is hence a mission critical server for any business . with business expansion branch offices require access to the SAP server over the WAN , traveling users also require access to the SAP applications like CRM , Sales , purchase modules . This posses a new challenge to the IT department of securing the SAP server from outside intrusion and providing secured access to the SAP applications to branch offices and traveling users .
Business Solution
AnexGATE Series of Unified Threat management and productivity appliances can provide you with the security and productivity for your SAP application . Following are steps to Secure and protect your SAP servers . 1. Firewall - The SAP server must be behind the stateful inspection AnexGATE Firewall . any public IP given to the server should be NATTED on the firewall . this would prevent server exposure to the internet world and secure against any outside intrusion to the SAP server . 2. IDS /IPS - The Built in IDS/IPS should be enabled in AnexGATE . intrusion reports should be enabled to check for unique signatures of attacks that are coming on your SAP server . you should check for any DDOS attacks or Sql Buffer overflow attacks and take action on securing your databases with the latest patches available from the vendors .
3. VPN - AnexGATE has a built in IPSEC and PPTP VPN , remote user should be provided with VPN clients in AnexGATE to securely connect to the SAP applications from Remote Sites . Remote or global branches can be connected to the SAP application by using IPSEC VPN connectivity which gives 168 bit encryption for your data transfer over internet . 4. DMZ - The SAP servers should be kept the DMZ zone of the AnexGATE appliance and unsecured access to the DMZ zone should be blocked on AnexGATE . only valid users should be allowed to connect to SAP from the local LAN . 5.Web Services - All the web Services on the SAP server should be protected by enabling secured port access via NATTING on the AnexGATE appliance ensuring complete logging and reports of the web portal usage over the internet .
6. ISP failover - AnexGATE has a ISP failover module which ensures business continuity on the SAP server incase your primary ISP fails . hence remote branched and user can still do business as usual incase your primary internet fails . you can also do Bandwidth management and Load balancing for your SAP application on AnexGATE . Client Reference for Securing SAP server Textrade India Borosil Glassworks Onida Sah petroleums Knack Softwares Eemphasys Software SP fabricators Inox Air Products Aplab To Know more on how we can help you Secure your SAP server kindly contact us at the below mentioned details