The protection of the SAP systems, as mission-critical applications, is becoming the priority for the most relevant organizations all over the world. The security hardening of SAP systems is key in these uncertain times, where threat actors start seeing SAP as the main door to perform successful attacks.
There are multiple surveys in the cybersecurity industry and the conclusions are significant: more than 90 percent of the CIOs and CISOs interviewed considered that a SAP breach would be a serious, very serious or catastrophic event in their companies. Moreover, two out of three respondents confirmed that their SAP environments were breached in the last 24 months, and the average cost of having the SAP systems off is $4.5 million. The interviewers considered that one of the more critical aspects in relation to the training of the employees is the lack of internal education associated with the SAP new technologies, such as SAP Cloud, HANA, Fiori or IoT.
The SAP systems are the core of the most relevant business processes and they need to be secure. The SAP systems usually store large amounts of data, part of it including confidential information that needs to be specially protected. Considering that SAP products are secure by default is a myth and it is needed to apply several features and correctly using different functionalities to achieve that security. That security is a critical aspect to avoid attacks in the IT environment.
In the market, there are different solutions with functionalities for identifying, analyzing and neutralizing cyberattacks in the SAP applications when they occur and before they cause catastrophic damage to the customer’s IT environment.
Some of the most general functionalities linked to the ev ..
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