Onapsis Assess for SAP SuccessFactors

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Identify Excessive Access, Misconfigurations, and Hidden Risk in Your HCM Application

CHALLENGE

Managing SuccessFactors Risk in an AI-Accelerated Threat Landscape

SAP SuccessFactors contains some of an organization’s most sensitive and regulated data, including employee PII and bank account details for payroll. Protecting this data requires defending against an evolving threat landscape in which AI-assisted tools are lowering barriers for attackers targeting enterprise applications and identities. Once attackers compromise an identity, endpoint, or connected SAP environment, they may attempt to move laterally into cloud applications such as SuccessFactors. Reducing this risk requires comprehensive visibility not only into who has access to sensitive data and functionality, but also into how SuccessFactors is configured, including security controls, authentication, integrations, and other application settings that can introduce unintended exposure.

However, maintaining this level of visibility is difficult. Organizations may have tens of thousands of users in SuccessFactors, each with different roles, permissions, and access levels, alongside a complex set of application and security configurations that must be properly managed to minimize risk. Identifying vulnerabilities across this environment can be particularly challenging because security teams:

  1. Need to determine what secure configurations and appropriate access should look like, often requiring specialized SuccessFactors and security expertise.
  2. Lack an efficient way to systematically identify excessive privileges, misconfigurations, and other vulnerabilities, leaving teams reliant on manual audits and reviews that are time-consuming and difficult to scale.

SOLUTION

Onapsis Assess Delivers More Efficient & Effective SAP  SuccessFactors Exposure Management

But managing risk for SuccessFactors doesn’t have to be hard if you have the right partner. Onapsis Assess replaces legacy friction with proactive exposure management tailored specifically for SuccessFactors. Automated cans discover, prioritize, and automatically verify remediation of critical risks. This streamlines VulnOps and remediation workflows today while delivering the deep application context needed to fuel future agentic AI security workflows. 

  • Automatically Identify Issues That Impact Data Privacy and Compliance
  • Protect Data Integrity and Reduce the Risk of Fraud
  • Get Up and Running Quickly and Receive Immediate Value
  • Integrate SuccessFactors into Targeted AI Security and Compliance Orchestration (e.g., VulnOps, Remediation, and Compliance Agents) 

Overcoming SuccessFactors Exposure Management Challenges with Onapsis Assess

Common Exposure Management ChallengeHow Onapsis Assess Solves These Challenges
No easy way to view and understand user privileges and permissions (e.g., who can access and modify certain data, perform certain actions) besides manual audits. Automatically identifies excessive authorizations, highly privileged users, and segregation of duties violations (i.e., users who own a process end to end)Provides guided visibility into proxy settings (i.e., make sure users can only act on behalf of other users for legitimate business reasons)
Unable to tie actions/changes back to individuals.Checks appropriate change audit settings and audit logs are enabled
No easy way to check if their system, users, integrations, and customizations are configured in line with security best practices.  Checks their security configurations (e.g., metadata frameworks, if clickjacking and cross-site scripting protection is enabled)Easily verifies user password rulesChecks third-party integration settings (e.g., encryption and authentication to other systems)
Lack of integration between SAP SuccessFactors security data and modern, AI-driven enterprise security and compliance orchestration.Serves as the authoritative source of truth for SAP security, delivering the verified intelligence needed to seamlessly integrate SAP into agentic AI security orchestrationLeverages a native MCP gateway to stream high-fidelity SAP telemetry directly into corporate-sanctioned AI models, powering next-generation VulnOps and autonomous remediation

Positive Business Impact of Using Onapsis Assess

Reduced risk of breach and compliance violation 95% of cloud breaches occur due to human errors such as configuration mistakes1 Onapsis Assess automatically checks that SuccessFactors is configured according to best practices
74% of breaches involved access to a privileged account2Onapsis Assess automatically identifies privileged users and excessive authorizations so organizations can enforce least privilege access
Significant time and cost savings due to automation and intelligence provided by Assess83% reduced issue remediation time*Onapsis Assess automatically identifies a variety of vulnerabilities and explains how to fix them, reducing the time it takes to investigate and figure out how to solve each issue 
20-40hrs/week saved by replacing manual work*Without Onapsis Assess, organizations would need to manually audit their security configurations and user permissions. Onapsis replaces these manual efforts with automated vulnerability scans
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