Your SAP system is the heart of your business, tirelessly pumping data and keeping processes running. But lurking within this complex machinery is a threat that can bring your entire business to a standstill: expiring SSL/TLS certificates.
We all know how important it is to encrypt communication between applications and clients. It is the digital handshake that ensures trust and security in your system. But this handshake has an expiration date. Certificates are generally not valid for more than one year. This means that these digital keys must be renewed regularly. This makes efficient SAP certificate management essential.
And this is where the drama begins: Many companies repeatedly go through the effort and risk. It's like a recurring race against time, where you have to manually replace all SAP certificates. If one is forgotten, the consequences can be fatal.
Suddenly, the data flow stalls, applications become unavailable, and communication breaks down. Your business processes come to a standstill. Every minute of downtime means not only enormous financial losses, but also a serious blow to your reputation.
No SAP solution for certificates
Even in the context of RISE with SAP, the management of these critical certificates remains your responsibility. It is up to you to proactively identify when and where certificates are expiring. It is up to you to handle the time-consuming process of reissuing and distributing them. The manual effort is immense and error-prone, which further increases the risk of outages. It is a cumbersome task that ties up your IT department and keeps it from performing more strategically important tasks. Comprehensive certificate lifecycle management is the answer.
Our solution: ALPACA Certificate Management for SAP
The good news is that this work no longer rests solely on your shoulders.
ALPACA Certificate Management takes these tasks off your hands and reduces the time and effort otherwise required to renew SSL certificates. It offers comprehensive full lifecycle certificate management for your SAP systems to prevent downtime and security breaches. With ALPACA, you can integrate your CA to handle the entire process fully automatically. It supports a wide range of certificates, including ABAP (STRUST), Java, HANA, Web Dispatcher, Saprouter, and Host Agent. ALPACA proactively and regularly checks whether certificates are about to expire or have already expired, identifies all certificates from the security environments, and triggers notifications as soon as certificates become critical.
Newly issued, trusted certificates can be easily distributed across your system landscape with ALPACA. ALPACA takes care of importing them into the respective certificate stores and updating STRUST. ALPACA also enables the creation of certificate signing requests (CSRs) based on existing PSE files and the automated renewal of server certificates. A backup of the old PSE files and a possible rollback ensure that your PSE files are always in a secure state.
Contact us today to learn more about ALPACA Certificate Management!
Your next step to greater efficiency
Do you want to continue exposing yourself to the stress and risks of manual SAP certificate management processes, or are you ready for a future in which your SAP systems communicate securely and smoothly without unexpected downtime? The decision on how to shape your company's digital efficiency is in your hands.