Initiatives to Combat Ransomware Continuation: Eliminating Weaknesses in SAP Software
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In today's digital landscape, the efficient and effective protection of SAP environments is of paramount importance. This article will delve into the challenges of continuous monitoring of SAP applications and explain how to overcome them.
Continuous monitoring is a crucial aspect of securing SAP environments. It enables real-time threat detection, ensuring the swiftest possible detection of anomalous or suspicious behavior. Onapsis Assess, a solution provided by Onapsis, addresses these challenges by offering automated asset discovery, robust vulnerability assessments, risk-based analysis, real-time threat intelligence, internal workflow integration, and the Onapsis Security Advisor.
Onapsis Assess identifies security vulnerabilities and threats that go beyond a simple list of missing patches. It highlights issues such as misconfigurations, incorrect permissions, and problems in already implemented custom code. By translating vulnerabilities into business risks, it makes it easy to see what needs to be fixed first.
The importance of hardening security for the application layer is a key part of a proactive ransomware strategy, as recommended by NIST and SAP (in collaboration with Onapsis). Exploited vulnerabilities are the most common cause of ransomware attacks, and threat actors are actively targeting SAP applications as an entry point into corporate systems.
Onapsis Assess is part of the SAP Endorsed Apps program and includes comprehensive security checks for SAProuter. It also provides a single, insightful overview of the current security status and tailored, actionable advice for improvement, with dynamic visual comparisons of the status over time and against industry peers.
Another solution for continuous monitoring of SAP applications is offered by BCS for SAP Technology. This solution extracts, normalizes, and integrates SAP security-relevant events into any SIEM system, ensuring comprehensive and effective protection of SAP environments.
On average, it takes 65 days to remediate critical severity vulnerabilities. With continuous monitoring solutions like Onapsis Assess, this time can be significantly reduced, minimizing the risk of a successful attack.
Understanding the attack surface of SAP and fixing these vulnerabilities is challenging due to factors such as prioritizing patches, validating their application, addressing vulnerabilities beyond missing patches, and understanding the risk of each vulnerability. However, with the right tools and strategies, these challenges can be overcome, ensuring the security and integrity of your SAP environments.
Stay tuned for the next article where we will explore the challenges of continuous monitoring of SAP applications in more detail. This article will be written by Julie Anderson and sourced from Onapsis-Blog.
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