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Virginia 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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Over the past few years, there has been a 100% increase in public exploits of SAP and Oracle EBS applications, and while many organizations spend millions on perimeter security and customizing your business-critical applications, the ERP systems that run your business are still at risk. ERP cybersecurity can be a major security blind spot, as malicious attackers have recently shifted their efforts to the application layer, possibly leaving your business vulnerable to attacks. Onapsis can help to provide protection against internal and external attacks, reduce your operational attack surface, provide automated governance, continuous monitoring and actionable insight. In addition, a new IDC survey reports a troubling 64% percent of organizations have reported an ERP system breach in the past 24 months. This appears to be an issue beyond a lack of cybersecurity and application maintenance best practices. Watch our video below for more information and learn how to secure your ERP systems today.
About the Author
Virginia 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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Further Reading
The SAP Shared Responsibility Model: Who is Responsible for Custom Application Code Security in SAP BTP?
As companies modernize their ERP landscapes through RISE with SAP and move to the cloud, a dangerous assumption takes root: that SAP will automatically handle all security for them. Development teams migrate custom code and extensions to SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), leverage low-code tools and AI copilots, and assume the platform’s built-in defenses will…
Unmanaged “Vibe Coding” Creates Risks for SAP Clean Core StrategiesÂ
It feels as though vibe coding has sparked a wild-west adoption phase for generative AI in enterprise development. The temptation is obvious: massive productivity leaps achieved just by feeding natural language prompts into LLMs to deploy software at record speeds. Organizations are sprinting to integrate these practices, terrified that lagging behind means losing their competitive…
Onapsis and CrowdStrike Expand Partnership to Secure SAP in the Agentic AI Era
By bridging Onapsis’ deep SAP application-layer domain knowledge and threat research with the power of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, we are eliminating historical blind spots between enterprise SAP systems and central SOC operations.
