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Uptycs has announced a partnership with SAP to utilize verifiable AI analysts, transforming the capabilities of enterprise security teams by allowing them to focus on advanced threat hunting and strategic decision-making.
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This collaboration enhances security coverage and resilience, enabling businesses to generate in-depth risk reports within minutes, significantly improving response times and the quality of actionable insights.
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With SAP's extensive global reach and resources, this partnership impacts a vast array of industries using cloud and AI services, allowing security professionals to leverage a unified telemetry system for accurate, data-driven decision-making.
Uptycs, a cloud-native cyber threat hunter, announced a strategic partnership with SAP to deploy verifiable AI analysts that augment enterprise security teams. These virtual employees are designed to augment SOC teams, enabling analysts to concentrate on advanced threat hunting and deeper attack path analysis while improving overall security coverage and resilience.
Uptycs’ AI analyst platform, Juno, was originally built to hunt threats across cloud-native and on-premise environments. In collaboration with SAP, early adopters are discovering its value as a strategic consultant, delivering actionable insights that go beyond standard threat detection. The result is McKinsey-level strategic risk reports produced in minutes, not weeks, with every deployment generating hyperlinked citations tied to each organization’s private telemetry to ensure insights are both verifiable and actionable.
See Q&A with SAP, Utpycs executives highlighting the partnership and challenges, opportunities ahead for users.
What This Means for SAPinsiders
Verifiable AI analysts redefine enterprise security strategy. SAP’s collaboration with Uptycs signals a shift from reactive defense to intelligence-led security, creating co-innovation opportunities in verifiable AI workflows, threat-informed automation, and risk‑aligned transformation across cloud and hybrid SAP landscapes.
Tested On a Global Scale
As a strategic partner, SAP brings significant scale and reach: it employs more than 110,000 people across 150+ countries, generates more than $34 billion in annual revenue, and delivers cloud services, AI, ERP and enterprise applications that power mission-critical systems for hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide, while continuing its shift toward a cloud-first subscription model.
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“Security in today’s cloud‑centric world demands tools that not only detect threats, but elevate strategic decision‑making,” says Roland Costea, CISO and EVP, Enterprise Cloud Services at SAP in a press release. “Our partnership with Uptycs reflects a shared commitment to verifiable, intelligent cybersecurity solutions that empower teams to stay ahead of risk while transforming how enterprise security operates.”
What This Means for SAPinsiders
Scale accelerates platform‑level security modernization. With SAP operationalizing Uptycs’ Juno platform globally, GSIs and architects gain a blueprint for embedding AI‑driven threat intelligence into core cloud services, unifying cyber resilience and enterprise modernization in one architecture.
Addressing the OpenClaw Moment
Amid industry debate over agentic employees following the OpenClaw moment, which demonstrated both the rapid adoption of agentic AI, reportedly outpacing early ChatGPT growth, and the risks of autonomous agents bypassing traditional security controls, Juno’s Glass Box architecture enables security teams to experiment and innovate safely.
With a unified ontology of 150,000 telemetry columns, which is a structured map that explains what everything means and how it relates to everything else, Juno provides a level of verifiable accuracy that allows security leads to act as business strategists rather than technical responders. Across the automotive and financial sectors, teams are using Juno to perform forensic investigations that previously required senior architects.
By asking simple and clear questions, teams receive diagnoses verified against external references like CVE databases, ensuring AI guidance is never hallucinated.
“The industry is tired of ‘Security Slop’ and AI that guesses,” says Ganesh Pai, CEO and founder of Uptycs in a press release. “This partnership demonstrates how we can safely combine human and AI capabilities, moving from reactive security to strategic transformation.”
What This Means for SAPinsiders
Agentic AI governance becomes a design imperative. Juno’s transparent, ontology‑based “Glass Box” model sets a precedent for secure AI deployment, guiding SAP partners and customers toward responsible agentic systems integration, compliance‑ready observability, and safer automation at enterprise scale.
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