Cybersecurity Threats and Challenges to SAP Systems 2025
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Unpatched systems remain the biggest cybersecurity threat to SAP systems in 2025.
⇨ There is increasing concern about the need to protect access to sensitive and confidential data in SAP systems.
⇨ Planned SAP-specific cybersecurity invesments include SAP security tools and audit and monitoring tools for SAP systems.
Over the past year the number of cyber threats impacting enterprise landscapes, and the SAP systems that reside in them, continued to increase. Reflecting this increase in cyber threats, 23% of respondents reported that they experienced a credential compromise or social engineering attack, a malware or ransomware attack, or a cybersecurity attack that has impacted their SAP environment during the past year. This makes it vital that organizations are prepared for the cyber threats that their organization is facing, and for the change in the nature and impact of attacks against their systems.
Which cybersecurity threats are the most important to SAPinsiders varies from year to year based on what is being most actively exploited by threat actors. However, for the last few years ransomware attacks has been towards the top of the list along with unpatched systems. This year, perhaps reflecting the fact that as more organizations complete transformation projects that bring together SAP and non-SAP data from across the enterprise, there are greater concerns about data exfiltration attacks and connections to other systems or applications. With more systems running in the cloud, the exposure points between these systems and those still running locally in data centers or in other cloud environments can significantly expand the attack surface.
This year’s research also explored the the challenges faced in securing SAP systems. Despite the fact that organizations have needed to patch SAP systems for years, keeping up with SAP security notes, patches, and updates remained the biggest challenge respondents faced in securing their SAP systems. This is something that must be addressed by SAPinsiders if they are to ensure that their systems are secure.
In addition, this year’s report explores how the cybersecurity maturity posture of organizations is impacting what they are prioritizing from a cybersecurity perspective and what SAPinsiders should be focusing on as their cybersecurity strategy matures.
The findings indicate that those with a greater cybersecurity maturity are more concerned about topics like supply chain attacks, credentials compromise, and ransomware attacks than those that are lagging from a cybersecurity maturity perspective. This indicates that these organizations may have addressed some of these challenges and are moving forward with bigger threats.
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– Understand the biggest factors impacting cybersecurity strategy.
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