As organizations begin to make the natural move to the cloud, it’s important to remember that security will not be solved just by migrating. Security professionals still have to keep in mind the massive responsibility of keeping your customers’ personally identifiable information secure, even when in the cloud. That means building a partnership with the cloud provider, as well as maintaining security at the application layer. Watch the video below as Gerhard Eschelbeck, from Onapsis’s Board of Directors, discusses the importance of cloud security and protecting your mission-critical applications.

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As CEO and Co-Founder of Onapsis, Mariano drives the strategic direction of the company. Under his leadership, Onapsis has become one of the fastest-growing technology and cybersecurity companies in the world. With 20+ years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, both as an executive and as a cyber security expert, Mariano was the first to publicly present on cybersecurity risks affecting ERP platforms and how to mitigate them at major conferences such as RSA, Black Hat and SANS. Mariano’s contributions to the cybersecurity community include developing the first open-source SAP and ERP Penetration Testing frameworks, and uncovering critical zero-day vulnerabilities in SAP, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft applications. Mariano’s insights are regularly featured in major media outlets such as CNN, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Nasdaq, Fortune and The New York Times.
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Further Reading
The Utilities Guide to SAP RISE: Navigating Shared Responsibility and Security
Electric utilities operate in a highly regulated physical domain. As organizations like Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E) modernize their enterprise resource planning environments, executing a secure RISE with SAP business transformation requires a fundamental shift in defensive strategy. Defending the enterprise core requires security leaders to understand that migrating to a hyperscaler does not eliminate…
The 2026 SAP Security Assessment Checklist
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Kerberos & RC4 – What It Means for SAP Customers and How Onapsis Helps
Microsoft is changing how Windows Kerberos handles RC4, an old, insecure encryption algorithm that has historically been the default service ticket encryption for user-account SPNs (the category most SAP service accounts fall into) whose msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes attribute is unset. The final enforcement phase begins July 2026. SAP environments with service accounts in this state, and keytabs…
