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ERP Security for Heavy and Discrete Manufacturing

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Cyber attacks targeting critical ERP, product innovation, and supply chain applications within the heavy and discrete manufacturing industry can have far-reaching financial and reputational impacts. 

A successful attack could delay key digital transformation projects, interfere with business continuity and product safety, or put company intellectual property (IP) at risk. With the number of cyber attacks targeting manufacturers aggressively growing, organizations are challenged to protect their critical systems and ensure the safety of their products while meeting accelerated demand for digitization and sustainability. 

39% of manufacturers experienced a breach in last 12 months 1
$4.5M = average cost of data breach for manufacturing industry 2
34% of manufacturers say theft of intellectual property is their top cyber threat 1

Key Risk Factors

Direct ERP Attacks on the Rise 

Cyber attacks targeting manufacturing 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, and result in loss of employee PII or company IP.

More Digitization and Interconnectivity

COVID-19-induced supply chain instability and increased global competition 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.

New Models and Processes Needed to Support Sustainability

Facing both regulatory and consumer pressure, manufacturers are adopting new service-based models, Industry 4.0 technologies, circular supply chains, and green manufacturing processes to reduce emissions and create greener products.

Key Challenges 

Security Is Often an Afterthought in Digital Transformation

The need for supply chain digitization and faster product innovation 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 leads 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, product innovation, 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, product innovation, other business-critical operations, and the massive amount of data within these systems. 

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 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

Case Study

F500, $120B Automobile Manufacturer Builds SAP Vulnerability Management Program, Reduces MTTR and Improves Patching Process

Challenge

 A history of manual patching processes created a backlog of SAP Security Notes, and their existing vulnerability management tools didn’t provide visibility into other vulnerabilities within SAP, leaving their critical systems exposed. Following news of a critical severity vulnerability in SAP, the Board of Directors tasked the CISO with strengthening their SAP cybersecurity program to minimize their attack surface. 

Solution

Onapsis provided comprehensive vulnerability management capabilities that allowed these new-to-SAP security teams to better comprehend and minimize their attack surface while more easily identifying direct SAP threats. The automobile manufacturer gained the visibility and context they needed to reduce investigation and remediation times and achieve greater risk reduction with significantly less effort.

75% Reduction in mean time to remediate (MTTR) for SAP vulnerabilities
90% Spent validating SAP Notes were applied correctly
300+ Hours/month saved on SAP vulnerability management efforts

Learn more about how Onapsis helps heavy and discrete manufacturers protect the systems and data supporting their ERP, digital supply chains, product innovation, and other business-critical operations at onapsis.com/heavy-manufacturing 

Reference Bullets 

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

ERP Security for Utility Companies

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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.

$4.7M average cost of energy industry breach 1
94% of energy industry breaches impacted personal data 2
25% of energy industry data breaches caused by Ransomware 3

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.

75% Reduction in mean time to remediate (MTTR) for SAP vulnerabilities
85% Less time spent on patching
55% Reduction in investigation time

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

ERP Security for Retail / Fashion Manufacturing

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Cyber attacks targeting critical ERP, supply chain, and e-commerce applications within the retail manufacturing industry can have far-reaching financial and reputational impacts. 

A successful attack could delay key digital transformation projects, interfere with business continuity and the ability to deliver quality products to consumers, or put customer personally identifiable information (PII) at risk. With cyber attacks targeting retail on the rise, organizations are challenged to protect their critical systems and data while meeting accelerated demand for digitization and increasing privacy regulations. 

75% year-over-year increase in ransomware attacks targeting retail 1
39% of manufacturers experienced a breach in last 12 months 2
$4.5M average cost of data breach for manufacturing industry 3

Key Risk Factors

Direct ERP Attacks on the Rise 

Cyber attacks targeting retail are on the rise. Successful attacks on ERP systems can be particularly devastating with the potential to disrupt supply chains, interfere with product quality and delivery, interrupt e-commerce, and result in loss of employee or consumer PII.

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 retail 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 

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 unaddressed risk to the systems supporting digital supply chains, e-commerce, and other business-critical operations, as well as limited protection of the data within these systems.

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 retail 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 security can quickly and effectively comprehend and act on risk 
  • Integrate with ticketing systems and SIEMs, so ERP can be brought into existing processes and SOC playbooks 

Case Study

F1000, $5.5B Apparel Manufacturer Eliminates SAP Cybersecurity Blind Spot, Brings ERP Events into the SOC to Reduce MTTR and Improve Incident Response Times

Challenge

The CISO, newly tasked with overseeing SAP security, had little experience with SAP and knew their existing security tools (e.g., Tenable vulnerability management, Splunk SIEM) didn’t provide the support they needed. 

Solution

Onapsis provides comprehensive vulnerability management that translates SAP security issues into risk, allowing new-to-SAP teams to easily identify, understand, and respond. Continuous threat monitoring from Onapsis can be integrated with Splunk so SOC teams gain an early warning system and pre-patch protection against cyberattacks targeting their critical SAP applications.   

83% Reduction in mean time to remediate (MTTR) for SAP vulnerabilities
40 Hours/week saved by eliminating manual data extraction and collaboration
73% In incident response times due to Splunk integration

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

Reference 

1 The State of Ransomware in Retail 2022, Sophos
2 Cyber Risk in Advanced Manufacturing, Deloitte
3 Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022, IBM Security

Onapsis Health Check Service: Maximize Onapsis Product Performance Align Product Usage With Business Needs

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Challenge

Under-Resourced IT Teams Urgently Need To Scale Products That Protect Business-Critical Applications

Business-critical applications are the lifeblood of an organization, and an attack against any of them has the potential for a devastating impact across the entire organization. That’s why more than 20% of the Fortune 100 choose to partner with Onapsis to solve the challenges of vulnerability management, threat monitoring, and application security testing for their business-critical applications.While easy to get up and running, sometimes resource-starved teams need help accelerating their ROI with our technology. With so many competing transformation projects and the increasing pace of business, many IT, security, and ERP teams lack the time, resources, or knowledge to truly maximize the value of these deployed solutions.

71% of IT leaders admit most security tools are underutilized 1
62% of organizations report their security teams are inadequately staffed 2

Solution

The Onapsis Professional Services team delivers Health Check Services for products across the Onapsis Platform to help customers best align their product usage to suit their current business environment and resolve both their short-term and longer-term needs. Our experts begin the service by administering a comprehensive technical survey in order to capture the details of product usage in your environment, as well as outline and understand your operational goals. Our experts dig deep to understand how your team is using the Onapsis products and how to better incorporate Onapsis technology and threat intelligence into their day-to-day processes. Our team then evaluates how the product is running in your environment by performing a point-in-time scan for validation of the security rules and checks that are operational in your environment. The output of the scan is compared with the survey and used to create a detailed gap analysis with recommendations and best practices. A read out at our workshop tailored for your team then details the findings. The personalized workshop ensures complete understanding of, and team alignment with, the findings as well as planning on how to successfully implement the plan that will be shared with your internal teams. These personalized recommendations may also include how to best align with existing tools and processes currently in use, such as information technology service management tools (ITSM) or existing vulnerability and patch management teams and workflows.

Identify and Understand Risk 

Ensure Comprehensive and Effective Scanning
Make sure that you’re scanning all key business assets for the threats you care about most  

Enable Faster Time To Mitigation
Ensure your most critical vulnerabilities are being prioritized and resolved

Accelerate Your Organization’s Teamwork 
Decrease time to remediation by ensuring workflows and ITSM tools are properly configured 

Onapsis Defend Health Check Service 

Gain Peace of Mind with The Latest Threat Intelligence
Make sure your current and future security rules and checks are being continuously updated  

Personalize Your Event Monitoring
Ensure you have created customized rules tailored to your environment 

Shrink Your Time for Incident Identification
Prioritize identification and investigation of critical ERP incidents to your business 

Onapsis Control Health Check Service

Test Your Code More Thoroughly
Ensure that new code development is checked against the most up-to-date test cases for vulnerabilities  

Rank Your Code Vulnerabilities More Effectively
Gain visibility into and prioritize the most critical code vulnerabilities, and accelerate your development cycles  

Accelerate Development Team Productivity
Understand code status and prioritize development team actions accordingly

Reference

1 IIDG MarketPulse Research: 2021 Impacts of IT Security Tech Sprawl
2 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022

Insights from Dow Chemical for a Proactive Approach to ERP Security

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On-Demand

Digital transformation is necessary to meet your goals around product innovation, sustainability, and faster response to evolving customer needs. But, with digitalization comes greater interconnectivity and exposure, creating a larger attack surface for your business-critical applications and putting your IP and supply chains at risk. 

With cybersecurity attacks increasing for political and financial gains, chemical companies are a prime target. Join our quick 15 minute session on how to better manage your SAP attack surface and reduce risk throughout the digital transformation process. We’ll include real world insights from your peers at Dow Chemical, whose proactive approach to ERP security supports business continuity and the integrity of their end products.

In this session you will learn more about:

  • The impact of digital transformation on SAP risk and attack surface
  • Best practices for managing your SAP attack surface throughout transformation and after
  • How your peers at Dow Chemical have successfully created an application security program for SAP 

ERP Security 101: 5 Things Every Leader and Organization Should Be Doing to Secure ERP

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Cyber Tech Talk

ON DEMAND

Traditional cybersecurity investments have focused on defending the perimeter with little attention paid to the application layer. More importantly, those applications enable the most critical business functions of your organization, such as financials, manufacturing, and the supply chain. With SAP as the core technology foundation for many large enterprises, it presents an attractive target for malicious actors. Building from basic security hygiene to advanced concepts, you can play a key role in ensuring that strategic operations and critical processes of your business are protected. Key strategies to maintain compliance and better mitigate risk across your SAP landscape.

In this session you will dive into ERP Security 101, including:

  • How and why it’s imperative to include SAP security in your overall cybersecurity strategy 
  • Fundamental concepts for SAP business-critical application cybersecurity & compliance 
  • Key strategies to maintain compliance and better mitigate risk across your SAP landscape
  • Active and elevated SAP exploitation activity identified by Onapsis Research Labs
  • CISA’s Catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities and the SAP vulnerabilities highlighted as critically important to patch

Onapsis Threat Intel Center

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One-Click Access To Critical ERP Security News from the Onapsis Research Labs

While cybercrime targeting ERP systems is escalating exponentially, the cybersecurity skills shortage is only getting worse. New vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered, and threat actors are increasingly exploiting what’s unpatched, leaving resource-constrained teams struggling to keep up and understand where to focus efforts to best protect the business.

The Onapsis Threat Intel Center alleviates the knowledge burden placed on already-strained security teams with easy-to-consume research and insights on the evolving ERP threat landscape, straight from the experts at the Onapsis Research Labs. This consolidated view provides everything you need to know about high-impact threat campaigns in one place, including detailed risk analysis of the threat and your system exposure, data from our global Threat Intelligence Cloud, threat activity reports, insights, and our best  recommendations to mitigate and remediate.

Keep Up with the Latest Threat Activity and Quickly Understand Your Risk and Exposure

Educate Your Teams to Better Respond to the Evolving ERP Threat Landscape

  • Get a high-impact, consolidated view into critical and elevated threat activity targeting vulnerable ERP systems
  • Understand the risk to help focus action on what needs immediate attention or what needs to be communicated up the chain to leadership

Get a Faster Read on Your Risk and Exposure

  • Get a more complete understanding of where you’re vulnerable across your landscape from multiple Onapsis products – all in the Onapsis Threat Intel Center
  • More easily share business risk with other  stakeholders across the company with one-click visibility into affected assets 

Jumpstart ERP Security Knowledge & Risk Mitigation Efforts

  • Security teams new to ERP applications can use the prioritized set of content to start familiarizing themselves with ERP- specific vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and business impact 
  • Organizations new to ERP vulnerability management can use the critical news and threat updates to aid prioritization efforts for mitigation and response

The Onapsis Platform
Onapsis Control is one-third of the Onapsis Platform. The Platform provides complete attack surface management for ERP landscapes, focused on business-critical application security that directly target interconnected risk – vulnerability management, threat monitoring, compliance automation, and application security testing.

Onapsis is proud to be an Oracle partner and the only application security and compliance platform invited to the SAP Endorsed Apps Program. 

Network Detection Rule Pack for Onapsis Defend

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Extend Industry-Leading SAP Threat Intelligence to the Network Layer

Business-critical applications are at higher risk than ever before, as organizations struggle to keep up with unpatched vulnerabilities and threat actors launch sophisticated ERP-focused attacks. The earlier an organization can detect threat activity, the better. Monitoring for ERP threats at the network layer – before they reach the applications –provides significant advantages of foresight and speed. However, this is easier said than done, as most traditional network security products lack the threat intelligence and the rules to deliver real protection. These vendors are not SAP security experts, and any rules they may provide are primarily crowdsourced from user or amateur communities – not experts.

The Network Detection Rule Pack for Onapsis Defend solves this problem, making it easy for organizations to bring Onapsis’s industry-leading SAP threat intelligence into their existing network security technologies. In our vendor-agnostic approach, Onapsis delivers a set of regularly-updated rules that can be imported into any Snort-compatible network security product (e.g., NGFW, WAF, IDS/IPS) deployed by organizations as part of their security architecture.

Identify Critical Threats Before They Reach Your Applications

Get Network-Based SAP Threat Detection from SAP’s Trusted Security Partner

  • Bring Onapsis threat intelligence into your network security technology, augmenting its ability to detect (and potentially stop) network-detectable threats to SAP 
  • Leverage rules and network security features to block malicious traffic from reaching SAP applications

Gain an Even Earlier Warning System for Critical SAP Threats

  • Get alerts for critical attacks before they even reach your SAP applications, allowing for faster response times 
  • Increase your time window for analysis and learn about new attacks and attack vectors

Deploy Across Your Defense-in-Depth Security Stack

  • Open-source Snort rules allow for broader, vendor- agnostic applicability across your network security stack
  • Supplement your threat monitoring efforts at the application layer by extending SAP threat intelligence to your network and perimeter layers to alert your SIEM

The Onapsis Platform
Onapsis Control is one-third of the Onapsis Platform. The Platform provides complete attack surface management for ERP landscapes, focused on business-critical application security that directly target interconnected risk – vulnerability management, threat monitoring, compliance automation, and application security testing.

Onapsis is proud to be an Oracle partner and the only application security and compliance platform invited to the SAP Endorsed Apps Program. 

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