Not too long ago I published a blog which discussed operationalizing your SAP cybersecurity strategy. In that post I discussed the confusion around division of responsibilities, who should own SAP security, and how SAP security gets operationalized within the organization as this is a common problem my team and I have noticed across organizations.

SAP is a complex and ever changing system, whether because of changes introduced to your SAP implementation to better suit your business or through the application of Security Notes (Patches) to ensure that newly disclosed vulnerabilities are mitigated.

Today, the Ponemon Institute has released its latest research study titled Uncovering the Risks of SAP Cyber Breaches. As the first independent research study on SAP cybersecurity trends, more than 600 global IT security practitioners were surveyed to uncover perceptions about the threat of an SAP cyber breach and how companies are managing the risk of information theft, modification of data and disruption of business processes.

SAP is a complex and ever changing system, whether because of changes introduced to your SAP implementation to better suit your business or through the application of Security Notes (Patches) to ensure that newly disclosed vulnerabilities are mitigated.

As a company, Onapsis is focused on securing business-critical applications such as SAP and Oracle. An important part of our research relies on identifying, and reporting on critical vulnerabilities in Oracle business applications in order to help Oracle customers reduce the risk to their organization.