Secure Your HCM Application from Vulnerabilities and Fraud
The Need for SAP SuccessFactors Vulnerability Management
SAP SuccessFactors contains some of an organization’s most sensitive and regulated data, including employee PII and bank account details to support payroll. Protecting this data—ensuring only authorized users can access and modify it, while minimizing the risk of breach—is essential for:
- Data Privacy: SuccessFactors contains heavily regulated data, including PII for employees. A breach of this sensitive data could have significant compliance impact and consequences (financial, reputation, etc.).
- Fraud Prevention: SuccessFactors is a system of record for compensation that commonly includes employee bank account information. Organizations need to ensure this cannot be altered without approval.
- Shared Security: The customer, not SAP, is responsible for their data within SuccessFactors, managing access and identities, and maintaining compliance. It is on them to manage certain security configurations, user settings (e.g., authorizations, privileges, segregation of duties), and integrations to other systems. Improper configurations, disabled settings, overly privileged users, and other issues within these areas create vulnerabilities in the application that put data privacy at risk and increase potential for fraud or other malicious activities.
This is easier said than done, however, because organizations don’t have an easy way to identify vulnerabilities that put data privacy and integrity at risk. There are a lot of users – likely tens of thousands per organization – and a lot of settings that organizations need to configure properly if they want to minimize vulnerabilities and risk within SuccessFactors. This is particularly challenging because:
- They don’t have a way to identify these vulnerabilities besides manually auditing and reviewing, which requires time that many resource-constrained teams don’t have.
- They need to understand what secure settings look like, which requires internal expertise and
Onapsis Assess Delivers More Efficient & Effective SAP SuccessFactors Vulnerability Management
But vulnerability management for SuccessFactors doesn’t have to be hard if you have the
right partner. Onapsis Assess eliminates the above challenges and gives organizations
just what they need to protect the privacy and integrity of their critical data:
- Automatically Identify Issues That Impact Data Privacy and Compliance
- Protect Data Integrity and Reduce the Risk of Fraud
- Get Up and Running Quickly and Receive Immediate Value
Overcoming SuccessFactors Vulnerability Management Challenges with Onapsis Assess
| Common Vulnerability Management Challenge | How Onapsis Assess Solves These Challenges |
| No easy way to view user privileges and permissions besides manual audits. | • Automatically identifies excessive authorizations, highly privileged users, and segregation of duties violations. • Provides guided visibility into proxy settings. |
| Unable to tie actions/changes back to individuals. | Checks that appropriate change audit settings and audit logs are enabled. |
| No easy way to check if configurations (systems, users, integrations) align with best practices. | • Checks security configurations (e.g., metadata frameworks, clickjacking, and XSS protection). • Verifies user password rules and third-party integration settings (encryption/authentication). |
Positive Business Impact
Onapsis Assess provides significant time and cost savings through automation and intelligence.
- Reduced Risk: 95% of cloud breaches occur due to human errors like configuration mistakes; 74% involve privileged accounts. Onapsis enforces best practices and least privilege access.
- Efficiency: Organizations see an 83% reduction in issue remediation time.
- Resource Savings: Replaces manual audits with automated scans, saving 20–40 hours per week.