Author: Carsten Olt

Carsten is working as a Managing SAP Security Consultant and SAP trainer and is in charge of the Secure Authentication & SSO and SAP Cloud Security Services at Xiting in Germany. He is a security-minded professional with IT security experience in many industries since 2001, specializing in SAP security from 2010 on. He supports organizations and helps to translate between IT and SAP security. His security expertise is related to secure authentication and single sign-on (SSO), including topics such as PKI, Encryption, Digital Signatures, MFA, Secure Network Communications. He covers projects dealing with various SSO standards like SAML, OAuth and ODIC, Kerberos/SPNEGO, and X.509 CBA. Within his projects, he is utilizing the corresponding security solutions from SAP. Carsten’s main topic is to design and implement holistic authentication concepts and support our customers in solving authentication and security challenges within their hybrid SAP landscapes. For him, this constitutes maximum security and quality in implementation and consulting. Besides SAP on-premises and cloud security solutions like SAP SSO 3.0 or the SAP Cloud Identity Services, this includes systems like MSFT Azure Active Directory, ADFS, Reverse Proxies, or other third-party products and infrastructure components involved in the authentication process.