Beyond Authorizations: How ToggleNow’s Data Guard Secures SAP from the Inside Out

For decades, SAP security has revolved around user roles, authorizations, and access control lists. But in today’s threat landscape, that’s simply not enough. Cyberattacks have grown more sophisticated, insider threats are on the rise, and traditional security models fall short when it comes to detecting and responding to real-time risks. Yet many enterprises still rely on legacy security strategies such as perimeter firewalls, role-based access controls, manual log reviews, and scheduled audits, that are no longer sufficient. These traditional methods are reactive, lack contextual intelligence, and offer limited visibility across interconnected systems. The result is a fragmented security posture prone to blind spots.

According to IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach report, the average breach now costs $4.45 million globally—a figure that continues to rise as regulations and customer expectations intensify.

Additionally, business technology leaders today face mounting pressure to secure data not only from external threats but also from within—across disparate systems, shadow IT operations, and increasingly stringent privacy regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, DPDP, and PCI-DSS. Failure to do so can result in significant consequences, including regulatory penalties, reputational damage, and customer attrition.

ToggleNow’s Data Guard— a game-changing solution that takes SAP security far beyond static authorizations. By adding deep monitoring, intelligent threat detection, and context-aware analytics, Data Guard empowers enterprises to proactively protect their most critical SAP data and systems. This isn’t just another layer of security — it’s a whole new defense paradigm.

Data Guard: End Point Security – Data Protection for SAP 

ToggleNow’s Data Guard, built on ThreatSense Ai’s engine offers a fundamentally different approach. Purpose-built for SAP and hybrid enterprise environments, Data Guard is a Data Protection & Privacy Suite designed to proactively secure your enterprise from potential data leaks.

How Can Your Data Go Out?

Data breaches aren’t always the result of sophisticated hackers. In many cases, the threat comes from within — whether it’s a careless employee, a disgruntled insider, or simply a lack of visibility. Sensitive SAP data can leave your environment in ways as subtle as email attachments, printouts, screenshots, or even photos taken with a mobile device. Without real-time monitoring and intelligent controls, these leaks can go undetected — until it’s too late.

The Role of EDR/XDR Solutions

EDR and XDR have transformed enterprise security by detecting and responding to threats across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments. However, they fall short when it comes to securing complex applications like SAP. These tools lack deep integration with SAP’s business logic, roles, and transaction context — which means they often miss critical risks such as privilege misuse, unauthorized data access, or insider threats operating entirely within the SAP environment.

ToggleNow’s Data Guard is a purpose-built for SAP, Data Guard monitors user behavior within SAP, understands the sensitivity of accessed data, and detects anomalies in real time. For instance, if a user runs transaction SE16N to extract confidential HR data and sends it via email or prints it, EDR/XDR will see nothing unusual — but Data Guard will flag it as a high-risk action based on context and policy. For CISOs, this means true visibility into what’s happening inside SAP — not just around it.

At its core, Data Guard provides:

• Comprehensive In-App Controls: Prevents data leaks by controlling screen captures, print options, and unauthorized downloads — directly within the SAP interface.
• Context-Aware Access Protection: Detects and enforces security policies based on the sensitivity of data and the user’s role, location, or activity.
• UI-Level Defense Mechanisms: Enables screen watermarks, UI masking, and logging to discourage and trace visual data leaks such as screenshots or manual note-taking.
• Fine-Grained Print & Export Controls: Blocks unauthorized printing (both PDF and physical), export, or saving of sensitive data through standard SAP features.

Key Benefits of ToggleNow’s Data Guard

• Deep SAP Awareness: Monitors SAP transactions, tables, and user behavior in real time.
• Insider Threat Detection: Flags unauthorized but technically allowed actions like mass downloads or misuse of powerful transactions.
• Contextual Alerts: Understands roles, business context, and data sensitivity — not just system-level events.
• Audit & Compliance Ready: Provides detailed logs and evidence for audits, investigations, and regulatory reporting.
• Complements EDR/XDR: Fills the critical visibility gap inside SAP that infrastructure tools miss.

Backed by deep SAP expertise and seamless integration capabilities, ToggleNow’s solution is already helping organizations identify hidden risks, avert regulatory non-compliance, and strengthen customer trust. One enterprise deployment, for example, used Data Guard to flag an unusually high-volume data transfer by a contractor—averting what could have been a costly breach.

What This Means for SAPinsiders

Traditional SAP security models are outdated and insufficient for modern threats. Authorizations and access controls alone can’t keep up with today’s complex risk landscape. With insider threats, shadow IT, and sophisticated cyberattacks on the rise, relying solely on perimeter firewalls, manual audits, and legacy role-based permissions leaves critical SAP data exposed. Leaders must rethink their security posture to include real-time, intelligent monitoring that addresses both internal and external risks.

ToggleNow’s Data Guard fills a critical visibility gap inside SAP environments. While EDR and XDR tools provide valuable protection across networks and endpoints, they lack the context and integration needed to secure SAP-specific operations. Data Guard is purpose-built for SAP, with capabilities like UI masking, in-app print/export control, and context-aware policy enforcement. It detects suspicious behavior within SAP—like misuse of transactions or unauthorized data exports—that traditional tools often miss.

Data-centric SAP security enhances compliance and reduces breach risk. With global data privacy regulations tightening and breach costs averaging $4.45 million per incident (IBM, 2024), proactive, SAP-native protection is essential. Data Guard provides auditable logs, context-rich alerts, and tools to trace and prevent data exfiltration. This empowers CISOs to meet compliance requirements, mitigate risk, and protect customer trust—all while complementing existing EDR/XDR investments.