Cyber attacks are targeting ERP applications within the oil and gas industry. These attacks can have financial and reputational impact and result in outages causing great human costs. They can disrupt oil and gas production, refinement, transportation, and delivery and put customer personally identifiable information (PII) at risk. Oil and gas companies need to protect against these attacks while modernizing their systems and complying with an ever increasing number of government regulations.

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. We’re proud to be an Oracle partner and the only application security platform in the SAP Endorsed Apps program

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

• Automate your ERP security helping you reduce time and resource costs for compliance audits
• Gain research-driven analysis and focused threat intel from industry experts, so even teams new to ERP security can quickly and effectively comprehend and act on risk
• Integrate with ticketing systems and SIEMs to bring ERP security into existing processes and SOC playbooks

Case Study

F1000 Gas Company Builds SAP Vulnerability Management Program, Reduces Remediation Time by 80%

Challenge

The company heavily relies on SAP applications for their business-critical processes, but the company had zero visibility into the actual security posture of these applications. They had a long, complicated patching process, and their existing vulnerability management solution and SAP tools didn’t give them what they needed to effectively protect their value chain

Solution

Onapsis provided comprehensive, focused vulnerability management designed for SAP applications. Automated assessments, detailed solutions, and descriptions of business impact enabled the organization to easily identify and prioritize their risk, leading to a greater understanding of how to best respond while streamlining their patching process and reducing their overall time and costs while preparing for FERC compliance audits

---

Learn more about how Onapsis helps oil and gas companies protect the systems and data supporting their ERP and other business-critical operations from SAP and Oracle at onapsis.com/oil-and-gas

Reference

1 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022
2 Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report
3 Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report

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

Cyberattacks targeting the systems that support critical operations such as R&D, clinical trials, and manufacturing are growing in number and severity with the primary goal being theft of intellectual property of key research, formulas, and therapies. As a side effect, these attacks create business disruptions that potentially cause integrity or safety issues in products designed for human consumption. Under the growing threat of targeted cyber attacks, pharmaceutical companies are challenged to protect their critical systems and ensure the safety of their products in the face of regulatory oversight and the threat of compliance audits.

Key Risk Factors

Direct ERP Attacks on the Rise 

Cyber attacks targeting pharmaceutical companies are on the rise. Successful attacks on ERP systems can be particularly devastating, with the potential to disrupt R&D, manufacturing supply chains, and clinical trials; interfere with product safety and delivery; and result in theft of company IP or patient data.

Digital Transformation Timelines

Investment in digitized R&D and supply chain projects is growing with the goal of better collaboration and agility. However, these digital transformation projects bring accelerated timelines where security is frequently an afterthought. The result is increased cyber risk across interconnected systems including remote trial data and patient portals.

Strict Audit Requirements

Pharmaceutical companies are subject to strict compliance regulations for drug development and the protection of patient and customer data. Failure to comply with laws and regulations can result in significant financial impacts including fines, revenue loss, and reputation damage.  

Key Challenges 

Limited Visibility for Security 

There are multiple ERP application owners in pharmaceutical companies, and data lives within a complex, interconnected landscape. This lack of visibility, makes it harder to manage the attack surface and cyber risk for business-critical operations.  

 Secure Digital Transformation

Digitization projects streamline operations and increase efficiencies, but they can favor expediency over security. Building in security, particularly during custom code development, and enabling continuous monitoring of critical ERP systems with vital research and patient data, is paramount. 

Security Controls for Compliance

Regulatory and GxP 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.

That’s where Onapsis comes in.

Onapsis has been on the frontlines securing the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies for over a decade. We are the foremost experts in business application security with the most prolific ERP threat research team. We’re proud to be an Oracle partner and the only application security platform in the SAP Endorsed Apps program.

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

F250 Biopharma Company Case Study

F250 Biopharma Company Builds SAP Cybersecurity Program, Reduces Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR) by 83% 

Challenge

Dependent upon SAP for their supply chain, manufacturing, and other business-critical operations, the company understood that a “threat to SAP is a threat to the patients that rely on their products.” They needed to harden their applications against internal and external threats and better understand and manage their SAP attack surface.

Solution

Onapsis was able to automate vulnerability scans and provide actionable visibility to mitigate risk to their SAP systems. The organization also leveraged Onapsis continuous threat monitoring of their SAP systems as an early warning system for potential cyberattacks.

---

Learn more about how Onapsis helps pharmaceutical companies protect the systems and data supporting ERP, R&D, digital supply chains, clinical trials, and other business-critical operations at onapsis.com/pharma

Reference 

1 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022
2 Data Breaches Targeting Pharma Companies are Rampant, Drug and Discovery 2022
3 Tech Republic 

For personal care manufacturers, the impact of a successful cyber attack on their critical ERP, supply chain, or e-commerce applications could be devastating.
Delays in digitization projects, interrupted business continuity, and loss of consumer personally identifiable information (PII) or the theft of proprietary formulas could have extensive financial and reputational consequences. Plus, considering the end products are designed for human body use or consumption, human safety is a large concern as well. With the growing threat of direct cyber attacks targeting the personal care industry, manufacturers are challenged to protect their critical systems and ensure the safety of their products while meeting accelerated demand for digitization and increasing privacy regulations.

Key Risk Factors

Direct ERP Attacks on the Rise 

Cyber attacks targeting the personal care industry are on the rise. Successful attacks on ERP systems can be particularly devastating, with the potential to disrupt supply chains, interfere with product safety and delivery, interrupt e-commerce, and result in loss of consumer PII or company IP (e.g., product formulas.)

More Digitization and Interconnectivity

COVID-19-induced supply chain instability and shifting consumer expectations are driving a need for more digitization and interconnectivity between business processes and systems, so organizations can be more resilient and respond more quickly to changing supply and demand. 

Expanded E-Commerce and Digital Sales 

As more personal care manufacturers go direct-to-consumer or enhance their e-commerce experiences to address evolving market demand, protecting consumer PII must be top of mind. Failure to do so could result in significant financial loss due to reputation damage or compliance violation (e.g., GDPR, CCPA.)

Key Challenges to ERP Security

Security Is Often an Afterthought in Digital Transformation 

The need for supply chain digitization and innovative, integrated e-commerce solutions is driving digital transformation at unprecedented speed, often at the sake of security. The tendency has been to bolt on security after the fact, which can lead to unaddressed risk, project delays, and cost overruns.

Under-Resourced Teams

Workforce shortages, particularly in cybersecurity, mean teams must balance high priority digitization initiatives with ensuring resiliency and integrity of ERP, e-commerce, and supply chain systems and data. This can be particularly challenging since many security teams lack experience with these systems.

Limited Visibility for Security Teams

Limited or restricted visibility into ERP applications and assets across complex and interconnected landscapes results in the inability to effectively protect systems supporting digital supply chains, e-commerce, and other business-critical operations, as well as the data contained within.

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 personal care manufacturers for over a decade now. We’re proud to be an Oracle partner and the only application security platform in the SAP Endorsed Apps program. 

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

• Automate security, so you can avoid delays and audit findings and focus on core transformation tasks, while ensuring your critical systems and data stay protected
• Gain research-driven analysis and focused threat intel from industry experts, so even teams new to ERP can quickly and effectively understand and act on risk
• Integrate with ticketing systems and SIEMs, so ERP can be brought into existing processes and SOC playbooks

F250 Case Study

F250, $17B Consumer Products Manufacturer Gains Visibility into SAP Attack Surface, Automates GDPR Audit Processes to Reduce Risk to Critical Systems

Challenge

There was a board-level initiative to secure SAP with a key focus around mitigating risk related to GDPR requirements and compliance. The CISO knew their security operations team didn’t have the visibility or tools they needed to secure SAP, and their existing manual audit processes were too time-consuming and left too much room for human error to effectively manage GDPR risk. 

Solution

With Onapsis, comprehensive vulnerability scans provided much-needed visibility into the broader attack surface across the complex SAP landscape, allowing the security operations team to better comprehend, prioritize, and quickly respond to threats. Onapsis helped the manufacturer automate the majority of their efforts around testing IT controls and collecting evidence for GDPR audits, saving significant time and enabling them to find issues ahead of third-party audits. 

---

Learn more about how Onapsis helps personal care manufacturers protect the systems and data supporting their ERP, digital supply chains, e-commerce, and other business-critical operations at onapsis.com/personal-care 

Reference

1 Cyber Risk in Advanced Manufacturing, Deloitte
2 Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022, IBM Security

For utility 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 energy assets, metering, and field and customer service are growing in number and severity with financial fraud, theft of customer data, and disruption of critical infrastructure the primary goals. As a side effect, outages created by these attacks can have real human costs on those that rely on power or water for survival. Under the growing threat of targeted cyber attacks, energy and water utility companies are challenged to protect their critical systems while modernizing their systems to take advantage of clean energy technologies and improving access for their customers and workforce, all under the watchful eye of increased government oversight.

Key Risk Factors

Increasing ERP System Attacks

Cyber attacks targeting ERP systems of utility companies are on the rise, and successful attacks have the potential to disrupt the delivery of electricity and potable water as well as put customer personally identifiable information at risk.

Cloud Migration and Modernization 

Modernization of systems, particularly cloud migrations, are critical in order to improve access to systems that contain customer and partner data. Harnessing the cloud to streamline processes and reduce costs is key to operate more efficiently. 

Critical Infrastructure Regulations

Utility companies, as critical infrastructure, are subject to strict government regulations. New clean energy legislation means even more attention must be paid to compliance audits. Failing to comply with audit regulations can result in significant financial impacts to the organization as well as loss of reputation.  

Key Challenges 

Limited Visibility for Security 

The lack of visibility into ERP system landscapes and direct threats has greatly impacted modernization projects. Inadequate tools and resources make it challenging to ensure uptime, prior to and during, cloud migration projects. s

Understaffed Teams

Workforce shortages in the security industry are further compounded by the significant number of utilities workers approaching retirement age. Cost cutting measures are resulting in reduced hiring and training budgets for staff.

Security Controls for Compliance

Mandatory compliance audits often result in time consuming manual processes. Aligning security controls to compliance requirements for data and authentication for ERP systems can be a resource intensive process.

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 utility companies for over a decade now. We’re proud to be an Oracle partner and the only application security platform in the SAP Endorsed Apps program. 

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

F1000 Gas & Electric Utilities Company Builds SAP Vulnerability Management Program, Reduces Remediation Time by 80%

Challenge

This gas and electric utilities company was heavily reliant on SAP applications for their business-critical processes. However, they had no way to measure their attack surface accurately and act on unaddressed or unmonitored risk. They needed to address this risk immediately, while considering future proofing any solution for an upcoming SAP S/4HANA RISE project.

Solution

The company deployed Onapsis Assess, which immediately delivered a deep map of their attack surface to help them establish baselines and gave them comprehensive vulnerability management for their existing SAP applications. In the time since, they’ve uncovered unmonitored assets and legacy misconfigurations they never would have found otherwise, helping them continue to move their security baseline forward. This baseline will also be used during the upcoming migration project to ensure their new systems are configured securely and reduce the time and resources needed for future compliance audits on these systems.

---

Learn more about how Onapsis helps utility companies protect the systems and data supporting their ERP and other business-critical operations from SAP and Oracle. onapsis.com/utilities 

Reference

1 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022 
2 Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report 
3 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022