CIO’s 2022 Transformation Report Card

Top trends and insights on how executives can approach their transformation initiatives.

Digital transformation and innovation remain a top priority for tech executives, but how are these projects going? And, are they delivering tangible benefits to the business?

Read this report to:

  • Discover how leaders are measuring ROI from their transformation initiatives related to efficiency, productivity, and the ability to support new business models and products.
     
  • Explore the key factors that are separating successful transformation initiatives from failing projects.
     
  • Understand how leaders are scoping initial projects and establishing important metrics.
     
  • Learn how CIOs are increasing collaboration between business and IT, addressing change management challenges, and putting innovation in the hands of the entire organization.
Onapsis Webinar

1000 Reasons: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Business-Critical Application Security

Insights from Onapsis Founders on Protecting Critical Systems of Leading Brands and Modern-Day ERP Security Strategies

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Over a decade ago, Onapsis was founded in a small office in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today, the organization has grown by leaps and bounds with a global presence and capabilities centered around protecting the critical systems of hundreds of the world’s leading brands including 20% of the Fortune 100. Join this fireside chat with two of the founders of Onapsis – Mariano Nunez, CEO, and JP Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO – to hear their take on the state of critical application security, thoughts on modern day SAP and Oracle attacks and threat actor groups, and a new way of thinking about ERP security to protect what matters most to your organization.

Shift Left: Five Reasons Why You Should Extend DevSecOps to Your SAP Environment

Enhancing Security and Efficiency: Exploring the Benefits of DevSecOps Integration in SAP Environment

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What is DevSecOps? It is the process of implementing security best practices within the application development lifecycle. As digital transformation projects accelerated work schedules on new code and applications, security frequently fell to the wayside in favor of business application output. With the average SAP system having well over 2 million lines of custom code, large global enterprises are growing more concerned about how vulnerable their critical applications may be. Join this webinar to get a better understanding of why you, too, should consider incorporating your SAP application development into a broader DevSecOps framework and some best practices on how to get started in your SAP development.

The ERP Black Box: Five Reasons Why Your Vulnerability Management Program Must Include Your ERP Landscape

Unlocking the Security Potential of Your ERP Landscape: Discover the Five Essential Reasons for Integrating Your ERP Applications into Your Vulnerability Management Program

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Frequently thought of as a “black box” for many reasons, SAP and Oracle application landscapes present challenges for modern day security professionals, which has frequently led to a policy of layered security around the critical systems that matter most. However, neglecting to include these ERP applications as part of your vulnerability management program leaves your organization more open than ever before to potential security breaches and data loss. In this webinar, let Onapsis provide you with five compelling reasons why it’s time to crack open that black box and better integrate SAP and Oracle applications into your overall vulnerability management strategy.

ERP Digital Transformation: Big Trends and Bigger Security Challenges

Exploring the Evolving Landscape of ERP Digital Transformation and Strategies to Mitigate Security Risks

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As global organizations fully embrace cloud and digital transformation projects in the enterprise, under-resourced teams frequently focus on agility and velocity over security. This webinar will discuss the current trends shaping ERP digital transformation and the broader challenges in securing these business-critical systems. This session will draw from Onapsis’ experiences in securing the world’s leading brands over the past 10+ years to discuss major security challenges and threats brought on by digital transformation, leveraging insights and real-world examples to illustrate the topic.

ERP Security for Industrial Chemical Companies

For industrial chemical companies, the impact of a successful cyber attack on their critical ERP, production and supply chain, or customer portals could be devastating. 

Cyberattacks targeting the systems that support critical operations such as R&D, financials, and manufacturing are growing in number and severity with the primary goal being industrial espionage. Further, these attacks create business disruptions that potentially cripple operations due to interconnectivity of critical systems. As a result, most nations have designated the chemicals industry to be critical infrastructure. Under this growing threat of targeted cyber attacks, the chemical industry is challenged to protect these critical systems and ensure the quality and delivery of their products in the face of regulatory oversight and the threat of compliance audits.

$4.47M the average cost of a data breach for the chemical industry 1
25% of chemical industry data breaches caused by Ransomware 2
74% of breaches involved privileged account access 3

Key Risk Factors

Increasing ERP System Attacks 

Cyber attacks targeting chemical companies are on the rise. Successful attacks on critical ERP systems can be particularly devastating with wide-ranging and significant business impact due to greater interconnectivity up and down the value chain. 

Digitization and Interconnectivity

The focus on streamlining operations and creating more efficient processes is transforming supply chains into more localized, digitized, and interconnected systems. This makes chemical companies more agile and able to respond to supply and demand changes. However, this deeper interconnection greatly increases potential unmonitored risks. 

Critical Infrastructure Regulations

Chemical companies, designated as critical infrastructure, are classified as high-risk and subject to strict governmental regulations. Failing to comply with audit regulations can result in significant financial impacts to the organization including fines as well as suspension of production. 

Key Challenges

Limited Visibility for Security

Chemical companies have ERP applications and assets distributed across a complex and interconnected landscape (IT and OT). This means full visibility of the attack surface is difficult as is mitigating risk to the systems that support connected supply chains, production, and externally exposed applications.

Secure Digital Transformation

Digitization projects streamline operations and increase efficiencies, but they can favor expediency over security. Monitoring critical systems and ensuring that SAP code is developed securely when architecting new applications that affect the supply-chain is critical. 

Security Controls for Compliance

Regulatory compliance generally requires a large number of time-consuming, manual, and repetitive tasks to collect data. Identifying unmonitored or vulnerable ERP assets and automating these processes greatly accelerates audit preparation and helps avoid violations.  

Solution 

Onapsis Provides a Better Approach to ERP Security

Fortunately, securing your complex ERP landscape doesn’t have to be complicated, even with all the advanced threats and attacks out in the wild. 

That’s where Onapsis comes in. 

As the undisputed experts in business application security with the most prolific threat research team for SAP and Oracle, Onapsis has been on the frontlines securing the world’s leading heavy and discrete manufacturers for over a decade now. 

With Onapsis, you get complete 360 degree security for your critical ERP applications, helping you:

  • Automate security tasks for a faster, less resource intensive, process for compliance audits  
  • Manage risk with specific threat research, analysis, and monitoring so your team can effectively take action 
  • Integrate with existing security resources so familiar ticketing systems and SIEMs can bring ERP security into SOC playbooks

Case Study

F500 Global Chemical Manufacturing Company Reduces Development Time To Build Secure, Compliant, SAP Applications 

Challenge

A global chemical company relies on SAP with several business units developing custom code for these business-critical applications. However, the organization struggled to maintain their development cycles at a pace that aligned with the speed of their business, finding it difficult to implement changes without impacting existing system performance or introducing security or compliance issues. 

Solution

By using Onapsis Control, this company universally automated their code scanning, gated and analyzed all transports, and reduced their development costs and time investments, automatically scanning hundreds of thousands of lines of codes in minutes. Deep visibility into custom code and transports prevented bad code from entering critical production environments and adversely impacting system performance and security.

25% Less time spent on code reviews
65%Less costs spent on remediation activities
75% Reduction in security and quality errors imported into production

Learn more about how Onapsis helps chemical companies protect the systems and data supporting their supply chain, customer portals, production, and other business-critical operations at onapsis.com/fb-manufacturing 

Reference

1 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022
2 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023
3 Centrify

Onapsis Webinar

The State of ERP Security

ERP Systems Are Complex, but ERP Security Doesn’t Have to be Complicated

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Businesses use enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, like SAP, to keep their critical business assets, data and IP in one place. While ERP systems unify platforms and departments, centralizing large enterprise data presents an attractive target for malicious actors. An interconnected system combined with inadequate ERP security increases the risk of attacks and makes ERP systems a prime target for adversaries.

To shed light on the state of ERP security in 2023, we have analyzed and observed threats and attacks targeting ERP applications. Learn about the state of ERP Security, strategies to maintain compliance, and how to better mitigate risk across your SAP landscape.

 This session covers:

  • The power and importance of business applications and why they are a target
  • Active and elevated SAP exploitation activity identified by Onapsis Research Labs
  • Fundamental concepts for SAP business-critical application cybersecurity & compliance
  •  Key strategies to maintain compliance and better mitigate risk across your SAP landscape