Secure the communication between HANA Server and HANA Studio through SSL. It is highly recommended when there are lot of sensitive data handled in the system, which you want to secure from the middle-man attacks. There could be multiple documents available in SCN on this topic, but here I wants to show my experience on setting this up, in short time. Pre-requisites: HANA Server is installed and running HANA studio is installed in the local system Access to the HANA server Putty / WinSCP tools HANA Server and client without SSL configured: Steps need to be performed in HANA Server: Login to HANA server system using Putty, as a root user and check if the libssl.so file exists. If not, create a symbolic link to libssl.so.0.9.8. Now login to HANA server system, as a "<sid>adm" user. Create the Root Certificate: Go to Home directory "/usr/sap/<sid>/home" Create directory with a same ".ssl" Get into ".ssl" directory 4. Execute the f...