Onapsis and Microsoft Sentinel: End-to-End SAP Threat Monitoring for the SOC
We’re excited to announce a new integration between our flagship threat monitoring product, Onapsis Defend, and Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP. This partnership is designed to close the profound visibility gap that security operations centers (SOCs) have into their mission-critical SAP landscapes. By feeding Onapsis’s context-rich, specialized SAP threat intelligence directly into Microsoft’s AI-powered cloud-native SIEM, we provide security teams with unified visibility, enabling them to detect, investigate, and respond to sophisticated SAP threats with greater speed and confidence than ever before.
The Challenge: Why Your SOC Can’t See Inside SAP
For most enterprises, SAP is the foundational system of record. Yet for the SOC team, it’s often a black box. This visibility gap means that critical security events like SAP-targeted exploits, suspicious insider behavior, or sensitive data downloads can go undetected.
This has become a critical issue. It’s been a watershed year for defenders, marked by a series of notable SAP vulnerabilities and global attack campaigns. This includes the active exploitation of CVE-2025-31324 that compromised hundreds of organizations and the high-profile breach of a major global manufacturer. This incident was reportedly due to an exploited SAP vulnerability and completely disrupted their operations with estimated losses of $6.8 million a day.
Threat actor groups are now targeting SAP applications with unprecedented sophistication. Compounding this pressure are stricter regulatory requirements under EU NIS2 and new SEC rules in the US, along with the looming deadline for migration to SAP S/4HANA. Organizations are under immense pressure to better secure their SAP landscapes, and they can’t do that without the right visibility and threat intel.
Onapsis Defend and Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP
To address these challenges directly, Onapsis has partnered with Microsoft to provide end-to-end SAP security monitoring. This new integration was born from a shared commitment to providing deeper, more integrated security for our customers.
“The collaboration extends the power of Onapsis’ SAP-endorsed, industry-leading threat monitoring directly into Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP,” said Sadik Al-Abdulla, Onapsis Chief Product Officer. “By unifying Onapsis’ context-rich insights with Microsoft Sentinel’s Solution for SAP, enterprises can investigate and respond to SAP threats faster, meet strict disclosure requirements with confidence and strengthen their security posture across both on-prem, cloud and RISE with SAP environments.”
Key Benefits of the Integration: A Deeper Look
This collaboration enhances Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP’s native capabilities with the deep, specialized expertise of Onapsis, delivering several key benefits:
Specialized Exploit and Zero-Day Detection
The Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP delivers an advanced early warning system against cyberattacks, now enhanced and augmented with threat intelligence from the Onapsis Research Labs and their Global SAP Threat Intelligence Network. Organizations gain unique exploit protection to detect attacks on vulnerable SAP systems, including proprietary zero-day rules for coverage before a patch is even released.
Context-Rich Alerts, Designed for the SOC
Generic SAP logs are difficult for security analysts to interpret. Our integration solves this by uniquely enriching SAP security events with detailed explanations, mitigation guidance, and anomaly scoring from the SAP cybersecurity experts at the Onapsis Research Labs to accelerate investigations.
AI-Powered Security Insights
By combining the powerful Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP and Microsoft Security Copilot AI capabilities with the specialized security insights and threat intelligence from Onapsis, this integration offers superior identification of sophisticated attacks affecting your SAP and broader enterprise environment.
Unified Security Operations
With market-leading SAP threat and exploit detection from Onapsis Defend, organizations can push security events to Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP for correlation with broader enterprise events. This streamlines incident handling and reduces response times through a unified view of the overall threat landscape in the Microsoft Unified SecOps Platform.
A Shared Vision for Holistic Security
This integration is part of a shared vision for a more holistic approach to enterprise security, as explained by Martin Pankraz, Product Manager for SAP Security at Microsoft:
“Microsoft takes a holistic approach to SAP security, moving beyond isolated conversations. By integrating threat intelligence across the enterprise, and Security Copilot into Microsoft Defender Portal, we demonstrate that security isn’t limited to SAP Applications or data – it is about the whole ecosystem,” said Martin Pankraz. “Onapsis complements that effort with their market-leading pre-breach capabilities such as SAP exploit and zero-day detection, SAP Vulnerability Management or ABAP Code Security. We’re delivering deeper protection for our customers’ SAP landscapes, empowering them to respond to SAP threats faster and keeping them far ahead of the latest SAP attacks and exploitation techniques from malicious threat actors.”
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What kind of SAP threats can this integration detect that might otherwise be missed?
This integration enhances the Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP’s native monitoring capabilities with proprietary SAP exploit protection and threat intelligence you can only get from Onapsis. This gives organizations uniquely powerful SAP threat detection and an early warning system for insider threats or potential indicators of compromise. This includes the exploitation of specific SAP vulnerabilities (including zero-days), suspicious user behavior patterns unique to SAP, unauthorized changes to critical configurations, and illicit data downloads.
Does this integration replace the need for SAP-specific security expertise?
No, it empowers it. This integration is designed to make your existing SOC and security teams more effective by providing them with the context they need. The enriched alerts from Onapsis act as a “translator,” explaining the business risk of an SAP event in terms a security analyst can immediately understand and act upon, reducing the mean time to respond (MTTR).
How do I get started with the integration?
The Onapsis Defend for Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP integration is available today in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. For more information, you can contact an Onapsis sales representative.
