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Alex Horan is the Vice President of Product Management for Onapsis, where he focuses on developing solutions for SAP security and ERP vulnerability management. With over 18 years of experience, Alex has a proven track record of helping large companies enhance their security posture. His expertise spans key areas such as vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and systems auditing, making him a trusted voice on topics like SAP compliance and secure system configuration. He is committed to ensuring that Onapsis’s products provide advanced protection against real-world threats like ransomware and unauthorized access.
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Onapsis Director of Product Management, Alex Horan, had the pleasure of speaking with Security Guy TV host, Chuck Harold, at Black Hat Las Vegas 2019 earlier this month. Alex and Chuck were able to discuss the unique offerings Onapsis can provide your organization, such as continuous monitoring and change assurance. “[People] have a lot to do,” Alex commented, “they have a lot of things running in their environments and understanding them all and knowing exactly what to do for all of them is a hard task.” This is a problem people have “lived with” for so long that they have become immune to it because these systems have been enabled for a long time. People assume they have not had a security issue, which is different from a technical issue, and therefore will never have one. Watch the interview below for the full story!
About the Author
Alex Horan is the Vice President of Product Management for Onapsis, where he focuses on developing solutions for SAP security and ERP vulnerability management. With over 18 years of experience, Alex has a proven track record of helping large companies enhance their security posture. His expertise spans key areas such as vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and systems auditing, making him a trusted voice on topics like SAP compliance and secure system configuration. He is committed to ensuring that Onapsis’s products provide advanced protection against real-world threats like ransomware and unauthorized access.
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Further Reading
From Runways to Ransomware: Defending SAP Custom Code in the Age of Agentic Commerce
The retail and fashion manufacturing landscape is transforming at a blistering pace. Between the rise of autonomous AI shopping agents and hyper-accelerated trend cycles, brands are deploying cloud-native architectures faster than ever before. However, as organizations push to modernize their SAP environments and leverage AI for custom code development, they are unintentionally opening the door…
Protecting the Assembly Line: How Heavy and Discrete Manufacturing Can Secure SAP Custom Code in the Era of AI and Accelerating Threats
The heavy and discrete manufacturing sector faces unprecedented cyber threats, underscored by the £1.9 billion Jaguar Land Rover breach. As the industry adopts AI to accelerate SAP custom code development, critical new vulnerabilities emerge. With strict regulations like UN R155, NIS2, and TISAX demanding ‘secure-by-design’ systems, reactive security is obsolete. “Shifting left” with a DevSecOps…
SAP Security Notes: July 2026 Patch Day
SAP Patch Day for July 2026 addresses several critical vulnerabilities across different SAP Applications

