Data Encrypted between SAP & SAS

[satya1861]

Dear All,

How the data will be encrypted while reading data from SAP R/3 data base tables by using SAS Access interface to R/3?

Is it safe to read the sensitive information from SAP R/3 over the network? or Do we need take any additional measures to encrypt the data over the network while reading data from SAP R3?

Please suggest. Thanks in advance.

Note: SAS 9.4 has installed on Linux environment.

Thanks in advance. 

[Anand_V]

Hi @satya1861 

In most scenarios, databases are behind firewalls and when connecting internally between intranet it should be secured and protected. However if that's not the case then concern is valid.

SAS uses SAS/Secure to encrypt all its connections from client and internal and supports various encryption algorithms like AES, FIPS etc. I didn't find any info on data in motion encryption for SAP R/3. I would advise to raise a SAS Technical support track for quick response.

[Kurt_Bremser]

In all cases that I have seen so far, SAS/ACCESS uses the native client of the DBMS to communicate with the database.

This means that the connection done by SAS/ACCESS will be as secure as that of the SAP client itself.