3 Ways to Secure SAP SuccessFactors and Stay Compliant

The work-from-anywhere economy has opened up the possibility for
your human resources team to source the best talent from anywhere.
To scale their operations, organizations are leveraging the cloud
to accelerate essential HR functions such as recruiting,
onboarding, evaluating, and more.

SAP is leading this HR transformation with its human capital
management (HCM) solution, SAP SuccessFactors. Delivering HR
solutions from the cloud enables employees and administrators to
not only automate typical tasks, such as providing a report on
employee attrition, but also allows them to complete these tasks
from anywhere and on any device.

SuccessFactors makes it easy for employees to access what they
need. But the wide range of sensitive employee data within
SuccessFactors creates additional security and compliance
challenges. Whether it’s personal and financial information used
for payroll or health information for benefits, you need the right
cybersecurity to ensure that sensitive data, even when it leaves
your corporate office perimeters.

Cloud security organization Lookout has detailed some of the
challenges cloud-based HCM creates and why you need security built
specifically for your cloud app.

Why you need cloud security for SuccessFactors

There’s *a lot* of sensitive data in
there

SuccessFactors offers several features that streamline HR
operations, such as compensation and benefits — both of which can
be complex to secure. With 12 unique modules, SuccessFactors
functions like a multi-cloud environment, making it more
challenging to control how data is accessed. And because of its
breadth of features, the HCM also handles a diverse array of
sensitive and private data, such as financial data, protected
health information (PHI), and personally identifiable information
(PII).

You don’t know what’s happening anymore

Just like any cloud application, SuccessFactors’ end-users and
administrators are increasingly using unmanaged devices and
networks to connect and sidestep perimeter-based security — which
means IT and security teams no longer have visibility into how
users are interacting with the app, the risks on their devices, and
how they are handling sensitive data. This makes it nearly
impossible for security teams to know whether an endpoint contains
malware or a user’s account has been compromised.

Leveraging SuccessFactors provides huge upside for your HR
operations but only if it’s secure — a breach could severely damage
your brand and violate compliance regulations. With perimeter-based
security no longer effective, you need a solution that understands
SuccessFactors and can secure it regardless of how people are
connecting and the data involved.

➤ Register for this webinar^[1]
to learn how to secure SAP SuccessFactors to remain compliant.

Lookout CASB is uniquely built to safeguard SuccessFactors

Lookout is the only CASB in the SAP Store^[2]
and the only CASB vendor in the SAP integration partner lineup.
Lookout has worked closely with SAP to understand how
SuccessFactors interacts with users and handles data.

Three ways that Lookout CASB^[3]
can uniquely secure SuccessFactors:

1 — User behavior monitoring: detect threats and support
audits

Due to the sensitive nature of the data SuccessFactors handles,
staying compliant with regulations is key. It’s critical to have a
solution in place that understands how its users are interacting
with the application, detect malicious activities and provide a
paper trail for auditing purposes.

As an integration partner, Lookout CASB understands the
specifics of how your users normally interact with SuccessFactors.
It knows the context by which someone is connecting, such as the
risk level of the device used, where they are connecting from, and
the type of data they need. With this deep understanding, you are
able to restrict or deny access when suspicious behavior is
detected, ensuring that your users aren’t accidentally or
intentionally compromising your data.

2 — Safeguard sensitive data and block malware

When it comes to keeping your data safe, having visibility into
user behavior is just one piece of the puzzle. It’s just as
important to understand how sensitive or malicious a piece of data
is across all devices. With this information, you can determine
whether to revoke access or block the data from leaking out,
whether it is shared online or downloaded.

Lookout CASB can classify data in real-time across all of
SuccessFactors’ modules. With a full understanding of the type of
data an organization has, you can dynamically restrict access or
encrypt on the go to ensure that only the correct people with a
low-risk posture can have access.

3 — Granular and dynamic policy enforcement

The difficulty in securing SuccessFactors isn’t just the
visibility. You also need a security solution that can fully
leverage the user, data, and device telemetry data to enforce
policies. In a remote-first environment, there are countless
situations an organization needs to account for, such as how a user
behaves, the risk levels of their device, what type of network
they’re on, and the data they’re looking to access.

With a unique understanding of how users interact with
SuccessFactors and what data it holds, Lookout enables
organizations to customize policies that make the most sense to
them. Security teams could simply allow or deny uploading or
downloading privileges based on the user’s behavior and the context
by which they are connecting. They could also restrict viewing by
redacting or watermarking certain sensitive information if the user
is on an untrusted network or an unmanaged device. Lookout CASB can
also provide remediation instructions to help the user eliminate
risks so they could regain access to what they need.

Recognized by Gartner as an industry-leading solution, Lookout
CASB has built-in advanced data security and user and entity
behavior analytics.

REGISTER TODAY^[4] for the September 23,
2021 webinar in which our security experts will demonstrate the
various ways the Lookout CASB can secure SAP
SuccessFactors.