Listen to the Head of SAP at Sanofi, Frederic Maille, discuss his journey to secure SAP, including how he aligned internal teams, utilized Onapsis to determine the company’s level of risk and took actions to implement a cybersecurity program for this business-critical application. “We are an SAP shop because we have SAP everywhere,” says Maille, “…from the CRM [to the] ERP.” “Onapsis helped me to go fast… when we started to identify that we have to secure our SAP system, we really didn’t know how to start…the first idea was to start to set up a detection part.” Listen to how the Onapsis acquisition of Virtual Forge also enabled Sanofi, a customer of theirs, to improve their ERP cybersecurity and compliance strategy.
About the Author
Virginia Satrom Peterson is a strategic leader in the cybersecurity space, specializing in the intersection of business-critical application security and digital transformation. At Onapsis, she focuses on translating complex SAP threat intelligence into actionable insights for enterprise leaders. By bridging the gap between technical security operations and business stakeholders, Virginia helps organizations understand the urgency of protecting their core ERP landscapes from evolving cyber threats.
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