Network Security

Your network infrastructure is very important for the protection of your system. Your network must support the communication, which is necessary for your operating requirements, without permitting unauthorized access. A clearly defined network topology is able to remove many security risks (on operating system level or application level) based on software errors, and prevents attacks to the network, e.g. network spying. If users are unable to log in to your application servers and database servers on operating system level or database level, attackers have no chance to misuse systems and to access the database or files of the system. If the users are not allowed to connect with the server LAN (Local Area Network), they are unable to make use of known errors or security gaps in the server network services.

The individual SAP Omnichannel Point-of-Sale by GK applications communicate with the Central Services and among each other via secure network connections.

In particular, the options below are used for the communication of the individual applications among each other:

• HTTPS (secure hypertext transport protocol)
• Basic authentication (enforces access controls for communication)