Q&A: Preventing AI Cyber Threats Through Partnership

Uptycs, a cloud-native cyber threat hunter, recently announced a strategic partnership with SAP to deploy verifiable AI analysts that augment enterprise security teams. Their AI analyst platform, Juno, is built to hunt threats across multiple environments. The collaboration with SAP is helping companies realize their value as a strategic consulting and delivering risk reports produced in minutes. Rapid response is just as critical today with systems moving faster than people can comprehend. Being in front of the problem is paramount.

SAP and Utpycs executives answered several questions from SAPinsider on how Juno enhances visibility and some of the challenges users face.

See article highlighting the partnership.

Respondents:

• Roland Costea, CISO and EVP, Enterprise Cloud Services, SAP
• Ganesh Pai, Founder and CEO, Uptycs

SAPinsider: How do verifiable AI analysts like Uptycs’ Juno change the way SOC and ERP security teams collaborate to address complex, evolving cyber threats?

Juno’s middle name is simplicity. Different teams often need different answers, which usually means navigating multiple dashboards and reports. With Juno, you simply ask a question, use relevant references, choose the level of seniority for the response, and get the insight you need. Results can be shared easily, and teams can continue the conversation with follow-up questions. For complex issues, Juno can also generate executive-ready insights, giving CISOs the clarity they need.

SAPinsider: In what ways does Juno’s integration into SAP environments enhance visibility across ERP landscapes without disrupting existing compliance or governance frameworks?

Uptycs operates at the infrastructure level, collecting telemetry from multiple sources. Its focus is on identifying risks, detections, vulnerabilities and other cybersecurity issues. It does not access SAP data structures, ensuring compliance and governance are not compromised. Instead, the platform strengthens oversight of the infrastructure while supporting compliance frameworks such as CIS and MITRE. In short, Uptycs improves an organisation’s compliance posture by increasing visibility across the environment and helping ensure systems remain as secure as possible.

SAPinsider: Can you explain how Juno’s Glass Box architecture mitigates the risks associated with autonomous agent adoption highlighted after the so‑called OpenClaw moment?

The “OpenClaw moment” highlighted the dangers of “black box” AI making unverified decisions. Juno’s Glass Box architecture mitigates this by ensuring every insight is traceable. It provides hyperlinked citations tied to an organization’s private telemetry and external databases. This transparency prevents AI hallucinations and ensures security actions are based on verifiable evidence, restoring the trust necessary for safe autonomous agent adoption in mission-critical enterprise security.

SAPinsider: What distinguishes a “verifiable” AI analyst from traditional detection tools when it comes to validating insights using private telemetry and external reference sources?

Most security tools today provide a threat score, but the logic behind it is often a black box, as the underlying algorithms are treated as proprietary IP. Juno was designed to harness the power of LLM-driven AI while addressing a key challenge of AI systems: hallucinations. The data sources, reasoning path, and the questions and follow-up queries used to generate insights are fully visible, ensuring the raw evidence behind every conclusion remains transparent and accessible to users.

SAPinsider: Many ERP customers face skill shortages in cybersecurity. How does the Uptycs platform act as a force multiplier for these lean enterprise teams?

In the changing world of cybersecurity, the use of AI and specifically Juno eliminated the need to learn a platform, understand dashboards and makes it very simple to operate. A question like “show my today’s top risks” will provide a meaningful answer that can be act upon whilst providing all the row data to support it (i.e. verifiability), it is the perfect tool for companies with lean teams.

SAPinsider: What measurable improvements have early adopters in sectors like automotive and financial services seen in forensic or threat‑hunting capabilities using Juno?

Early adopters have seen forensic investigation times drop from days or hours to minutes. This is largely because Juno is not limited to operating within the platform itself. It can review external content, such as blogs or incident reports, analyze potential risks, and compare them against a customer’s environment. Tasks that would typically take SOC analysts days can be completed far faster. Juno complements SOC teams while also generating executive-ready insights, giving users the information they need without heavy manual effort.

SAPinsider: As SAP transitions to a cloud‑first subscription model, what unique security challenges emerge, and how does Uptycs address them cooperatively?

The transition to cloud-first models introduces complexities in managing hybrid environments and ephemeral workloads. Uptycs’ offering addresses these by unifying cloud configuration data with deep runtime telemetry into a single data lake. Together, we provide a consistent security posture across the entire journey to the cloud, ensuring that as customers subscribe to new services, their security remains integrated, visible, and resilient against cloud-specific attack paths.

SAPinsider: Looking ahead, how do you expect partnerships like Uptycs and SAP to reshape the broader ERP‑cybersecurity landscape over the next five years?

Over the next five years, partnerships will shift the landscape from reactive security to strategic, AI-driven transformation. We will see the normalization of hybrid human-AI teams where security slop is replaced by verifiable accuracy. This evolution will allow enterprises to adopt new technologies faster and more safely, turning cybersecurity from a cost center into a foundational enabler of business innovation and long-term digital trust.