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SAP ERP audit log monitoring with Log360

Overview

ManageEngine Log360 provides in-depth collection, parsing, correlation, and analysis of SAP ERP audit logs. By leveraging the SAP security audit log (SAL), Log360 enables real-time threat detection, continuous compliance monitoring, and forensic analysis of all critical activities within your SAP landscape, helping to protect your most sensitive business data.

How Log360 collects and analyzes SAP logs

Log360 offers flexible methods for collecting SAP audit logs, integrating seamlessly with your enterprise environment:

Collection methods:

Syslog forwarding: Log360 can act as a syslog server, which is a common method of collection for enterprise applications. You can configure the SAP security audit log (transaction SM19/SM20) to forward its events to Log360, enabling real-time log collection.
Agent-based collection: For environments where logs are written to the application server's operating system, a lightweight Log360 agent can be deployed to securely forward the log files to the central server.

Regardless of the collection method, Log360's intelligent parsing engine automatically identifies and structures the complex SAP log data. This transforms cryptic log entries into easy-to-understand reports and dashboards, allowing for powerful analysis without requiring deep SAP expertise.

Monitoring capabilities

Log360 collects and analyzes logs from the most critical sources within your SAP system:

SAP security audit log (SAL): The primary source for security and audit information, covering user actions, transaction execution, and system events.
System logs (SM21): Captures system-wide errors, warnings, and critical events related to the SAP kernel and environment.

Critical SAP events monitored

Log360 tracks essential security and operational events, including:

Execution of high-risk transactions and reports (e.g., SE16, SE38, SU01, PFCG, SCC4)
Failed and successful user logon attempts, especially for privileged users
Creation of new users and modifications to existing user master records
Changes to critical roles, profiles, and authorizations (PFCG)
Use of emergency access or "Firefighter" IDs
Client-level changes and attempts to modify system security settings (SCC4)
Activation of system debugging and other potentially malicious activities

Key benefits

Centralized SAP landscape visibility: Gain a unified view of all security-relevant activity across your entire SAP environment from a single console.
Real-time fraud & threat detection: Instantly identify suspicious behavior, policy violations, and indicators of internal fraud as they happen.
Continuous compliance monitoring: Simplify and automate auditing for regulations like SOX, GDPR, and others with prebuilt reports and alerts.
Forensic investigation of critical transactions: Drastically reduce investigation time with powerful search and reporting on who executed critical transactions, when they did it, and from where.

Address key SAP security challenges with Log360

The following table details common challenges and the solutions offered by Log360:

Challenges	Solution offered by Log360
Monitoring critical transactions	Provides real-time alerts and detailed reports on the usage of high-risk SAP transactions (e.g., SE16, SE38, SU01), providing a clear audit trail of who did what and when.
Detecting insider threats & fraud	Tracks suspicious user behavior, such as repeated failed logins, access outside of business hours, and the use of emergency 'Firefighter' IDs, to detect potential fraud and insider threats.
Managing user & authorization changes	Audits all changes to user master records and authorization profiles (PFCG), ensuring that modifications are documented and helping to prevent unauthorized privilege escalation.
Lack of security visibility	Transforms cryptic SAP audit logs into easy-to-understand reports and dashboards, providing security teams with clear visibility into their SAP environment without needing deep SAP expertise.
Meeting compliance	Simplifies compliance regulations, including SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI DSS with out-of-the-box reports for monitoring critical user activities, changes to roles and authorizations, and access to sensitive data.