Bolstering Cybersecurity and Resilience with Onapsis

The stakes for an SAP data breach are higher than ever, with the average cost skyrocketing to $10 million over recent years. Organizations must do everything in their power to secure their cloud environments from breaches and malicious actors.

Recently, Onapsis hosted a webinar with Roland Costea, CISO at SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS), and Mariano Nunez, CEO & Co-Founder of Onapsis. The two discussed how to bring together people and technologies to ensure that SAP systems are secure and are the bedrock of building business resilience.

Designing a Successful Cybersecurity Strategy

Organizations have such a large list of concerns and considerations they must address when determining how to address their overall cybersecurity posture, it can feel overwhelming. To help companies design their strategies, Costea and Nunez highlighted three main factors that should be considered – technology, processes, and people.

Technology – Businesses face a growing list of cyberthreats, like ransomware, social engineering, and DDoS attacks. These are made all the more challenging with the advent of AI increasing the frequency and intensity of attacks. Companies should ensure that they have the right technological solutions that allow them to identify threats, defend against any attacks, and recover from any breaches.

Processes – Organizations must ensure that their processes not only repel any potential malicious activity, but also maintain compliance with any applicable regulations that affect how they operate. These regulations are changing more quickly than ever, so companies need to ensure that they maintain compliance with advanced and automated solutions that update regularly, otherwise they risk significant fines and penalties.

People – While cybersecurity should be a major priority for all digital organizations, the reality is that there is a major skills gap. Only one-in-three breaches are discovered by a company’s own security team, likely because many organizations feel that their cybersecurity departments are too short-staffed to do proper risk assessment and management.

Sharing the Load

As SAP organizations move to the cloud, many are concerned about the security risks of operating in a new environment. However, this actually presents an opportunity for simplification. When working on-prem, customers were responsible for the infrastructure, OS, database, functional and technical aspects of applications, and business processes. RISE with SAP handles a huge portion of the security and compliance puzzle.

“When you move to RISE with SAP, you don’t have to worry about many of these things. Now you have SAP operating them for you – at the network layer, the operating system layer and the cloud infrastructure layer. That helps you focus and reduces the scope of the areas that you need to worry about,” said Nunez.

RISE with SAP allows organizations to focus on their business processes and functional application security and compliance. To ensure that these areas are secured, many SAP organizations work with Onapsis to simplify and streamline their remaining responsibilities.

Onapsis offers application threat detection and response, vulnerability management, user authorization management, and compliance adherence solutions, among other offerings. When paired with RISE with SAP, the Onapsis suite provides a comprehensive security environment for SAP organizations.

What This Means for SAPinsiders

Pair people with technology. To develop a truly comprehensive cybersecurity solution, organizations should work to pair best of breed technology with skilled workers. When a motivated and talented workforce is given the solutions needed to optimize their performance, organizations can ensure that their SAP landscapes are protected.

Find trusted partners to work with. Leading SAP organizations often work with third-party solution providers to ensure that the entire attack surface of their deployment is covered. Many of these companies choose Onapsis because of its longstanding relationship with SAP, which helps ensure its solutions are specifically tailored to help SAP organizations remain secure.

Take advantage of cloud offerings. While moving to the cloud offers companies many operational advantages, security concerns are a major factor that prevents many companies from making this move. Yet moving to the cloud with RISE with SAP and partnering with Onapsis can actually streamline and simplify cloud security compared to on-prem.