Why Onapsis
Why Leading Enterprises Choose Onapsis Over Other SAP Security Tools
Backed by the Onapsis Research Labs, the most prolific SAP threat research team in the world, only Onapsis delivers the threat insights and security capabilities required to protect mission-critical SAP applications from external exploitation and insider threats. Customers recognize and trust Onapsis for its strong track record of protecting SAP defenders both during routine monthly SAP Security Patch Days and, more importantly, when rapidly evolving zero-day SAP attack campaigns are targeting their vital, mission-critical business systems.
Not only do other third-party SAP security solutions fail to keep you ahead of the threat, they all share a foundational flaw: they run inside your SAP systems as SAP-embedded tools, inherently exposed to the very same SAP vulnerabilities they claim to protect you from. Learn how we are different.
Only Onapsis delivers world-class SAP threat protection and zero-day intelligence, independently proven to secure Fortune 500 global enterprises without expanding your attack surface.
1,000+
Zero-Day SAP Vulnerabilities Discovered
120 Days
Average Time Period of Pre-Patch Protection before SAP Security Notes
30%
We Protect 30%+ of Forbes Global 100
SAP-Embedded Tools (Not SAP Endorsed, Basic Certification)
- Not endorsed by SAP. Solutions have mostly simply passed a basic level of integration certification. Not adequate for mission-critical security defense.
- Integration certification in many cases does not include a security verification of the product. You have no idea if the vendor’s code is secure or not.
Onapsis (Endorsed by SAP, Premium Certification)
- The world’s only SAP Endorsed App for cybersecurity. Onapsis provides best-of-breed, SAP security and compliance coverage with full-stack coverage across ABAP, Java, HANA, BTP, and Fiori.
- Premium-certified platform, which underwent rigorous independent audits for unmatched stability, security, and compatibility. And the SAP+Onapsis strategic partnership expands beyond product into joint threat research, roadmap coordination, and strong executive leadership alignment.
SAP-Embedded Tools (None, Insufficient and/or Inaccurate)
- Non-existent or unresourced SAP threat research team, leading to lack of security coverage and inability to fully protect customers
- No pre-patch or zero-day protection against SAP exploits or attack campaigns
- No SAP threat intelligence, leading to several instances of dangerously-incorrect guidance to customers during critical SAP cyberattack campaigns.
- Highly reactive, generally relying on static public or crowdsourced CVE feeds or Patch Tuesday releases for content.
Onapsis (17+ Years of Unmatched Expertise and Capabilities)
- Powered by 17+ years of dedicated business-critical ERP threat research with a combined 85+ years of experience
- Onapsis Global Threat Intel Network delivers powerful threat actor telemetry that is delivered continuously through the Onapsis Platform to customers
- Close partnership with SAP Product Security Response Team (PSRT) as well as US CISA, Germany’s BSI, and other global cyber agencies.
- Frequent collaborations with other leading cyber intelligence teams such as Google Mandiant, Recorded Future, Flashpoint, and more.
- 1,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in ERP alone. Over 54% of all SAP HotNews in 2025 were discovered by Onapsis Research Labs.
- All research from Onapsis Research Labs is productized into powerful protection for our customers with zero-day, pre-patch protection delivered, on average, 120 days before vendor patches are released.
SAP-Embedded Tools (Shields Made of Paper, SAP Operational Risk)
- A foundational flaw: ABAP/UI5-based SAP security tools, running inside SAP systems, are by-design exposed to the very same SAP security vulnerabilities they claim to protect you from. Adversaries can easily compromise your security tool first, and then move on to your business data without restriction. They are shields made of paper.
- Misleading TCO: While several vendors claim to be “agent-less” and require “no infrastructure”, they in fact need an SAP system to run on and SAP add-ons/transports in every target SAP system. This leads to high maintenance costs.
- Several vendors recommend deployment directly on SAP systems such as S/4HANA, Solution Manager or SAP GRC. If they ship a flawed update, your most critical applications may go down with it.
- Installing a security plugin that has not undergone SAP or other third-party validation inside of your mission-critical SAP systems does not reduce risk, it increases it.
Onapsis (Standalone, Resilient Architecture for Zero SAP Risk)
- Onapsis’s Next-Gen Architecture (NGA), released in Q2 2026, deploys via a lightweight infrastructure-as-code (IaC) architecture that is installed in minutes and sits outside your SAP environment, delivering fast TTV and low TCO. Only Onapsis can be deployed with true “zero-footprint”, not requiring add-ons/transports in each target SAP system.
- Designed from the ground up for modern cloud and agentic AI landscapes, this tamper-resistant, standalone technology can support hundreds of SAP systems with just one instance. This is the lightest, most-secure footprint in the market.
- This standalone approach is the industry and NIST-preferred standard for deploying cybersecurity controls. It further guarantees zero added SAP risk and complete operational independence even during an active attack on your SAP systems.
SAP-Embedded Tools (Raw SAP Expertise Doesn’t Equal Cybersecurity Expertise)
- Rulesets and checks are predominantly ABAP focused, leaving fewer checks for other, equally important SAP technologies.
- SAP-embedded tools offer fewer rules overall than Onapsis and lack deep exploit and pre-patch protection rules that help enterprises reduce risk.
- Offer a small number of custom code test cases that focus primarily on ABAP. If they offer an integration, it’s generally in the ABAP Test Cockpit and nowhere else.
- Smaller ecosystem of partners with fewer impactful integrations for enterprise business and security workflows.
- Tabular compliance scan results do little to reduce the manual effort required to actually report on controls and prove compliance.
Onapsis (More Thoughtful Complete Coverage, Delivering Deep Insights – Not RFP Checkboxes)
- Onapsis support extends to ABAP, JAVA, HANA, BOBJ, UI5, BTP, Fiori, and more. For each of these domains, Onapsis delivers deep coverage, checks, and rulesets.
- Broadest ecosystem of Tier 1 , market-leading technology vendors such as SAP, CrowdStrike, Microsoft, ServiceNow, Armis, Splunk (Cisco), and more.
- Comply frameworks are regularly maintained by Onapsis, formatted based on IT General Controls as expected (and accepted) by auditors, and automates audit evidence collection to drastically reduce manual effort on the part of audit teams.
SAP-Embedded Tools (Architecture Limits Innovation, No Context for Agents)
- Non-existent or low fidelity and frequently incorrect data from product’s “threat intelligence” introduce significant risk if relying on them as “SAP security source of truth” for automated agentic workflows.
- ABAP/UI5-based architecture limits what solutions can do on an SAP system without risking performance impact. Your data will need to go “off product” to be processed.
- Past records of “AI features” all reflect either reliance on third party AI companies or “feature outsourcing” to SIEM or network security vendors.
Onapsis (Standalone Architecture, History of Innovation, Deep Intelligence)
- World’s first Agentic AI Fabric for SAP, powered by the Onapsis Agentic Gateway and supporting AI agents to streamline and support various domains of SAP security, compliance, and more.
- Onapsis’s resilient standalone IaC architecture is tailor-made for the Agentic AI era with powerful technology that accelerates decision-making, triage, and response at machine speed.
- AI-amplified Onapsis Research Labs team continues to set the standard for authoritative agentic context.
- Deep SAP cybersecurity intelligence, Threat Dispatches, and the Global Threat Intel Network set Onapsis far ahead of competitors as the only trusted source of truth for SAP agentic cybersecurity.
| Architectural Dimension | Onapsis Platform | Embedded SAP Security Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment Model | Standalone:Lightweight, resilient, secured, and compliant next-gen architecture deployed outside SAP. No multi-sensor deployment, no agents. A single Onapsis instance can support hundreds of SAP systems with zero sensors or agents in target applications. | In-SAP Add-On:ABAP/UI5-coded plugins are vulnerable to SAP attacks, by design. Consoles usually run on critical systems like S/4HANA, Solution Manager or SAP GRC, increasing operational risk. Agents need to be installed inside every target SAP system, increasing TCO. |
| Security Resiliency | Tamper-Resistant:Verified codebase (Veracode Verified, SAP Endorsed) that operates independently from SAP systems. | Exposed Codebase:Software codebase is not independently secured or validated by SAP or third parties. |
| Attack Surface Impact | Zero Added SAP Risk:Will not expand the attack surface of your critical SAP instances as it is resilient and standalone. | Expanded Risk:Tool vulnerability can directly compromise the host SAP system. If SAP is compromised, your embedded tool is also compromised and useless, even if running in a separate SAP system. |
Onapsis sits outside your SAP landscape, which gives you complete peace of mind. If attackers target your SAP systems, your application security platform remains uncompromised and fully operational. That’s exactly how an SAP security solution should work.
| Category | Onapsis (The SAP-Endorsed Gold Standard) | SAP-Embedded Alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| Partner Status | âś“ Endorsed by SAP.A strategic partnership and validation of best-of-breed, rigorously tested solutions. | âś• Basic SAP partner integration certification. |
| Deployment & Architecture | âś“ Secure, Resilient & Standalone.Lightweight, zero-footprint architecture is fast to deploy and tamper resistant. It operates independently and securely outside SAP systems for zero added risk. | âś• In-System Add-on.By-design vulnerable to SAP attacks. ABAP plugin needs to be installed on every SAP system to work. |
| Threat Intelligence | ✓ Onapsis Research Labs,the globally recognized leading SAP threat research team with 17+ years of experience and 1K+ SAP zero-days discovered and mitigated. | ✕ Most threat intelligence crowdsourced from public sources.Generally no real “Labs” like Onapsis, or significantly unresourced. |
| Zero-Day Detection | âś“ Proactive Pre-Patch Protection.Detects SAP zero-days before patches are released. Identifies non-public exploits unique to Onapsis research. | âś• Reactive & Outdated.Relies on public CVEs with no/ineffective research team to fuel critical SAP exploit discovery or zero-day detection. |
| Security Notes & Threat Mitigation | âś“ Advanced Validation & Mitigation.Proper detection, prioritization, and validation of missing SAP notes, plus robust compensating controls for “virtual patching.” | âś• Blind Spots & Gaps.Generally relies on connections to SAP tools like SolMan for Patch Management. Fails to validate manual SAP Security Notes and workarounds, leaving unpatchable systems exposed or generating false positives that drown your teams. |
| Robust Compensating Controls | âś“ Rapid Controls and Alert on Anything.Rapid Controls allow for one-click auto-creation of compensating controls from risks uncovered by Onapsis Assess. Alert on Anything features provide the ability to create any bespoke compensating control you want. | âś• Limitations Abound.Inferior threat research, no zero-day detection, no pre-patch mitigation, fewer rules, less customization mean that customers are continuously at higher risk. |
| Custom Code Security & DevSecOps | âś“ Modern Developer Tooling.Secures AI- and human-generated code (for all SAP languages – not just ABAP) in development, at rest, or in motion. Supports both legacy and modern SAP development workflows, features in-IDE auto-correction, and integrates into change management processes as gate checks. Also scans custom code already deployed in production to ensure it remains secure. | âś• Basic & One Dimensional.Limited to a handful of basic ABAP scans either in SAP ATC or via a Fiori tile. Zero integrations with other standard tooling or modern DevSecOps pipeline integrations, including in-IDE developer autocorrect tools. |
| Agentic AI Readiness | ✓ World’s First SAP Agentic AI Fabric.Impactful AI capabilities across Defend and in our Security Advisor. Announced the first-to-market Agentic Gateway for SAP security. Continued innovation with the world’s first SAP Agentic AI Fabric for Onapsis Platform. Onapsis Research Labs threat intelligence, high fidelity results, and our Onapsis features are the de-facto standard for enterprise SAP security agentic workflows around the world. | ✕ Outsourced Features.Architecture limits actual “on product” capabilities, so generally utilize APIs from external AI vendors for basic chatbot-like capabilities, sharing your SAP data externally. Solutions lack actual real, timely, and high-fidelity threat intelligence so usefulness for agentic workflows is limited and/or risky. |
“Onapsis saved us from having 10+ people working over the weekend trying to assess impact. We did it in 1 hour.”
– CISO, Fortune 500 Financial Services Company
“Thanks to your rapid alert and product updates, we prevented an SAP breach. By the time they hit us, we were protected.”
– CISO, $3B Pharmaceutical Company
Remember, SAP-embedded security tools = shields made of paper and increased SAP operational risk. Don’t settle for technology that will fail to protect your mission-critical SAP applications when it matters the most. Trust the market leader.