Onapsis Strengthens Market Leadership as Demand for SAP Cloud Security Accelerates
The company is primed for continued success following a year of product innovation, strategic collaborations with SAP, new leadership and threat intelligence research to secure SAP Cloud transformations
BOSTON, MA — January 28, 2025 – Onapsis, the leader in SAP application cybersecurity and compliance, celebrated 15 years of SAP security leadership by releasing several major product innovations, strengthening its strategic partnership with SAP, appointing renowned leaders to its board and executive team, and publishing significant research on SAP security.
“In the last 15 years, we’ve gained the knowledge and expertise that sets us apart when it comes to protecting the most critical applications at the largest enterprises in the world,” said Mariano Nunez, CEO of Onapsis. “Driven by cloud-based digital transformations, spending in ERP has seen the highest increase in priority across enterprise software spend for 2025. This, together with a sharp uptick in threats targeting SAP applications, is leading to accelerated demand for our solutions. Through last year, we have optimally positioned ourselves to deliver unmatched outcomes for our customers and partners, and we are ready to deliver on this mission.”
Market-Leading Product Innovation
Onapsis launched 164 new features across all product lines. Significant product enhancements in 2024 include:
- Secure RISE Accelerator: By reducing security and compliance obstacles, the Secure RISE Accelerator simplifies, accelerates and de-risks an organization’s RISE with SAP transformation.
- SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP): Onapsis offers deep security and compliance controls for SAP BTP through Assess, Defend and Control in the Onapsis Platform, providing customers with visibility and security to protect this business-critical SAP platform.
Strengthened Strategic Partnerships with SAP & Leading Global System Integrators
Continued strategic alignment with SAP and GSIs continues to help joint customers stay secure and optimized:
- Maximizing Security in RISE with SAP: Onapsis and SAP partnered to further educate and help customers optimize the Shared Security Responsibility Model in their RISE with SAP transformations.
- SAP Incident Response by Onapsis: Onapsis and SAP strategically partnered to deliver SAP incident response to all customers to improve the cyber resiliency of SAP customers.
- Strategic Alliance Formed to Secure Shared Clients’ Digital Transformations: Onapsis formed an alliance with Deloitte to help their shared customers securely accelerate their SAP digital transformation projects.
“Together, SAP and Onapsis provide enhanced security for RISE with SAP. SAP delivers a highly-secure and compliant RISE with SAP cloud infrastructure, enabling customers to focus solely on securing their SAP applications and data. Onapsis strategically complements SAP’s role, delivering the essential security and compliance capabilities customers need to achieve this,” explained Roland Costea, CISO RISE with SAP at SAP.
Customer Momentum
Industry-leading companies continue to rely on Onapsis for its ability to protect their most critical data. Onapsis serves hundreds of the world’s largest customers, including 30% in the Global Forbes 100, who report an outstanding 95% customer satisfaction rating. In 2024, Onapsis added numerous Global 2000 organizations across North America and Europe to its esteemed customer base, while further continuing to increase the company’s best-in-class retention rates.
“The security industry faced many economic and growth challenges last year. Onapsis ending another year as the premier provider of SAP security solutions is a testament to the need and urgency of protecting business-critical applications,” said Paul Kleinschnitz, chief revenue officer at Onapsis. ”This next year is a pivotal time for Onapsis as it looks to create more strategic partnerships, strengthen its customer base and bring a new level of excellence to securing enterprises’ most critical data as it moves to the cloud.”
Leadership Expansion
Onapsis understands that to continue being at the forefront of SAP application security, it needs to continuously evolve and expand its leadership bench with industry veterans with experience in furthering Onapsis’ mission. This is why Onapsis appointed former SAP Chief Security Officer Tim McKnight to its board of directors and Paul Kleinschnitz (PK) as chief revenue officer to accelerate the company’s leadership in the SAP cybersecurity market.
Groundbreaking SAP Security Research
Onapsis Research Labs continues to solidify its leadership in SAP security research by discovering over 1,000 zero-day vulnerabilities in business-critical applications and helping SAP mitigate these threats. Onapsis also publishes in-depth and cutting-edge research, including:
- CH4TTER Report: Together, Flashpoint and Onapsis released the CH4TTER Report, which revealed evidence that SAP business-critical applications are increasingly top of mind and valuable for cybercriminals and how there is a significant rise in threat actor groups targeting SAP vulnerabilities.
- ERP Security in the Age of AI-Enhanced Ransomware: This research found that 89% of cybersecurity practitioners noted that their enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications and systems were affected by ransomware at least once.
For more information on Onapsis’ growth and trajectory in 2025, visit: https://onapsis.com/
About Onapsis
Onapsis is the global leader in SAP cybersecurity and compliance, trusted by the world’s leading organizations to securely accelerate their SAP cloud digital transformations with confidence. As the SAP-endorsed and most widely used solution to protect SAP, the Onapsis Platform empowers Cybersecurity and SAP teams with automated compliance, vulnerability management, threat detection, and secure development for their RISE with SAP, S/4HANA Cloud and hybrid SAP applications. Powered by threat insights from the Onapsis Research Labs, the world’s leading SAP cybersecurity experts, Onapsis provides unparalleled protection, ease of use, and rapid time to value, empowering SAP customers to innovate faster and securely. Connect with Onapsis on LinkedIn, X, or visit https://www.onapsis.com.
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