Anonymization: Analyze sensitive data without compromising privacy

When is data truly anonymized? You can probably remember several cases where organizations such as public transport organizations or telecommunication providers published insufficiently “anonymized” data sets resulting in very damaging highly visible news headlines.

This is not to do any finger-pointing, because you know what? Anonymization is really hard! For many real-life use cases it isn’t enough to just substitute names with pseudonyms, or mask some of the values. With a little additional background knowledge it is often possible to identify the individuals you thought had been anonymized.

SAP HANA Security: Granting Object Privileges with Repository Roles

This blog explains how to use the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench to grant object privileges with repository roles in SAP HANA.

SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench

The SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench editor, hosted within the XS engine, provides an interface that you can use to build and test development artifacts. From a security perspective, we can use this interface to create and manage repository-based roles. This interface offers all the advantages of repository-based roles without the need to define those roles using scripts. The interface is not exclusive, meaning that you can edit repository-based roles created using scripts with the GUI interface, and you can edit a repository-based role’s scripts, those created using a GUI, in SAP HANA Studio. This flexibility allows the security administrator to manage the repository role using either interface.

Data Encryption Comparison between HANA 1.0 and HANA 2.0

Recently, I was dealing with the challenge whether I should implement server-side data encryption (with focus on data and logs) on our SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 12 system or I should wait with the implementation until the upgrade to latest release of SAP HANA, which is currently HANA 2.0 SPS 00.

For this purpose, I was analyzing the question what is possible to implement in SAP HANA 1.0 and HANA 2.0, regarded from a data and log encryption perspective. As many others might be exploring this, I wanted to share my findings with you.

Securing SuccessFactors Extensions on SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Overview

SAP HANA Cloud Platform, extension package for SuccessFactors allows you to extend your SuccessFactors scope with applications running on the platform. The extension package makes it quick and easy for companies to adapt and integrate SuccessFactors cloud applications to their existing business processes, thus helping them maintain competitive advantage, engage their workforce and improve their bottom line.