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Why Modern SAP Threat Detection Is Business-Critical

Digital transformation and under-resourced teams have created a perfect storm, leaving business-critical SAP applications more exposed than ever. As teams struggle with growing backlogs, the time to apply critical patches is increasing, widening the window of vulnerability.

Threat actors have taken notice of this increased exposure and expanded attack surface. They are actively targeting SAP systems with sophisticated attacks at an alarming pace. Many organizations, however, lack the specialized monitoring and intelligence capabilities needed for effective threat detection and response, leaving their most critical systems at risk.

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Key Capabilities for Effective SAP Threat Detection

Attempting to achieve SAP enterprise threat detection by manually reviewing system logs is inefficient and rarely scales, while traditional security tools lack the necessary application-level context. To identify and act on potential threats before they disrupt your business, a specialized solution must provide the following capabilities.

An effective solution delivers continuous monitoring that leverages the latest, application-aware ERP threat intelligence. Unlike generic security tools that lack visibility into SAP’s proprietary architecture, this specialized intelligence understands the nuances of business transactions, authorizations, and system configurations. It provides robust detection rules that can identify suspicious activity unique to SAP, such as the unauthorized creation of privileged users, direct table manipulations, or insecure RFC calls. This allows for the detection of activity related to zero-day threats and known-but-unpatched vulnerabilities, providing critical pre-patch protection.

Security teams are often new to ERP security and cannot afford to analyze every potential threat. A proper solution must cut through the noise by providing prioritized, context-rich alerts that go beyond simple CVSS scores. It should factor in the business context of an asset—distinguishing between a critical production finance system and a non-critical development environment. These alerts must explain the business impact and offer clear, step-by-step remediation guidance tailored for SAP, such as which specific SAP Note to apply, what configuration parameter to change, or which user’s authorizations to review, dramatically accelerating response times.

Your Security Operations Center (SOC) is the central hub for enterprise security, but often SAP security operates in a silo. An SAP threat detection solution must break down this wall by offering seamless, out-of-the-box integrations with existing SOC technologies like Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and IBM QRadar. By feeding detailed SAP security events into your SIEM, you provide your SOC analysts with a single pane of glass. This enables them to correlate network activity with internal application threats and apply established incident response playbooks to SAP events, ensuring faster triage and a more unified security posture.

What Is SAP Threat Detection and Response?

SAP threat detection and response is a specialized cybersecurity discipline focused on continuously monitoring business-critical SAP applications for signs of malicious activity and policy violations. It involves collecting and analyzing data from across the SAP landscape to identify potential security incidents in real time, investigate their root cause, and orchestrate a swift response to neutralize threats before they can lead to data breaches or business disruption.

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Onapsis Defend: Proactive SAP Threat Detection and Response

Onapsis Defend is the threat detection solution from Onapsis, the only cybersecurity and compliance solution provider in the SAP Endorsed Apps program. Uniquely powered by threat intelligence from the world-renowned Onapsis Research Labs, it provides the visibility and context security teams need to respond to threats targeting their SAP applications faster and smarter. Onapsis Defend empowers you to:

  • Leverage over 2,500 Detection rules specific for SAP.
  • Gain unique exploit protection you can only get from Onapsis, including proprietary zero-day rules
  • Detect and understand anomalous activity with context-rich alerts.
  • Understand the root cause of threats and receive clear guidance on how to mitigate them.
  • Integrate seamlessly with leading SIEMs for unified SOC visibility and cross-system analysis.
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