Security Administration

Mobility has rapidly and dramatically changed computing and network environments. Before mobility, enterprise security primarily focused on the firewall and limited access to digital assets to only those users authenticated within the back end. A SAP Mobile Platform deployment introduces a multilayer approach to corporate security designed for mobility.

This approach ensures that Internal and external device users can securely connect to enterprise information systems. Every network link that transfers corporate information and every location that stores enterprise data guarantees confidentiality. Before you can prepare for the scale and scope of administration activities required to secure SAP Mobile Platform, learn which components you can secure, which communication streams you can protect, and how you can control access to mobile digital assets.

• Planning Your Security Landscape
  The security support matrices detail how SAP Mobile Platform supports various security configurations for client authentication and when using SSO to your back-end system. To properly plan your security environment in SAP Mobile Platform, understand authentication types, and the corresponding supported authentication providers, client types, and applications.
• Security Postinstallation Checklist
  Secure your SAP Mobile Platform Server installation as soon as possible after installation.
• Platform Security Quick Start
  Secure the SAP Mobile Platform Server by performing activities that secure the infrastructure and administration of components, in addition to enabling user authentication and secure communication.
• SAP Mobile Platform Authentication Quick Start
  This quick start task flow identifies security setup activities in an SAP Mobile Platform environment. Activities performed by the SAP Mobile Platform administrator, may also require the collaboration or participation of mobile application developers, or Afaria, security, or database administrators, depending on the role distribution within your organization.
• SAP Mobile Platform Security Overview
  SAP Mobile Platform provides a multilayer approach to corporate security designed for mobility.
• Configuring Security Fundamentals in SAP Mobile Platform
  To configure and manage security across SAP Mobile Platform, you need to understand security profiles and how to configure them, logical roles and how they map to your physical roles, and authentication providers and how they are configured in security profiles. You can also configure reverse proxies if needed in your landscape.
• Server Security
  SAP Mobile Platform Server provides data services to device clients by interacting with databases. The database is configured along with server components, to the internal corporate LAN.
• Application Security
  Application security ensures that device users can access application data by logging in through a configured security profile.
• Device Security
  To fully secure devices, developers and administrators can combine multiple mechanisms. In addition to using the built-in security features of both the device and SAP Mobile Platform, SAP recommends that you also use Afaria so you can remotely initiate security features as required.
• Agentry Security
  There are numerous security features available to Agentry applications. The Agentry Server supports client data and password encryption, encrypted client-server communications, and authentication certificates.
• Security Monitoring and Validation
  SAP recommends that administrators use multiple diagnostic sources, such as security logs and debugging tools. Monitoring data can effectively supplement obscure and abbreviated debug/syslog output.
• Migrating Security Components
  When you migrate from Sybase Mobile Platform and SAP Mobile Platform 2.x to the latest version of SAP Mobile Platform, some adjustments are required to ensure security components and applications runs correctly.