RISE with SAP – Safe and Compliant

Monitor Security and Compliance – smart, not hard

Protecting critical data in SAP and ensuring compliance with legal obligations is a complex challenge. It requires seamless collaboration between Operations and Compliance, capturing the attention of top management, and integrating multiple software solutions.

We turn this challenge into a team effort by enabling RISE with SAP customers to quickly jumpstart their Security, Risk, and Compliance insights with the essential fundamentals – and further evolve their capabilities over time.

Our solution empowers organizations to prioritize efforts reliably and strengthen overall resilience with smarter, more informed decisions. By combining the strengths of IT Risk Management, GRC, and SIEM solutions, our platform offers independent monitoring and acts as a seamless integration hub for SAP’s standard tools and third-party solutions.

SIEM: Security Information and Event Management

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Relevance in the Nutshell

Within the framework of ‘RISE with SAP’ and its Private Cloud offering, SAP customers have the flexibility to utilize SAP’s infrastructure while tailoring it to their specific business model and risk profile. Customers bear the ultimate responsibility for the security and compliance of their systems and are held accountable. This entails establishing company-specific standards and the capability to monitor compliance with those standards.

Customers remain responsible for many aspects of security and operations when opting for RISE – a concept referred to as “shared responsibility” by SAP. Several areas need to be addressed for SAP applications, including configuration, critical events, identity and access management processes, critical authorizations, change management, interfaces and code security, patching, and others.

IT General Controls (ITGC) are essential for ensuring financial compliance. A broader scope of IT controls underpins the technical and organizational measures (TOM) mandated by cybersecurity, data protection, resilience-related, and other regulatory requirements. Additionally, cybersecurity risk management is necessary to meet some key legal obligations.

SAP cybersecurity and compliance remain a black box for top management – and even for experts, monitoring can be overwhelming. But it doesn’t have to be this way!

SAP systems and threat landscapes are becoming increasingly diverse, while regulatory requirements are growing more complex. Here are a few core challenges faced by SAP customers:

Technical solutions require skilled experts

The technical complexity of cybersecurity, proprietary technology used by SAP, and associated monitoring tools require the involvement of highly skilled experts. However, finding and retaining SAP talent can be challenging, and high costs can significantly increase the overall expense of this critical activity.

Detection overkill

We observe that following SIEM implementation projects, significant prioritization and scoping efforts often ensue. The overwhelming number of alerts leads to high costs and suboptimal risk management, which can dilute focus and result in the neglect of critical vulnerabilities.

Organizational Silos

Managing SAP risks often involves multiple specialist monitoring solutions and various stakeholder departments, each taking a different approach. This complexity arises because regular monitoring and SIEM solutions typically offer limited risk impact and compliance insights, lacking essential features related to IT risk, asset and assurance management. In contrast, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) solutions cannot ensure full coverage due to their narrower scope and lack of flexibility.

Black Box for top Management

The most underrepresented skill among the board of directors is IT. Convincing management to invest in better cybersecurity is challenging—if the impact is not visualized and measured effectively, gaining their support becomes even more difficult.

… Buying is hard

The market for IT risk-related software solutions has evolved to address the individual needs of various stakeholders. As regulations worldwide mandate a more integrated approach to risk and compliance in cybersecurity, customers are seeking the most suitable solutions available. However, they often end up purchasing multiple products. This does not have to be the case!

Solutions on the Market

SIEM Solutions

IT Security and Risk Management

Governance, Risk and Compliance

Stakeholders

SOC Team
CISO Organization
DPO Organization
Internal Controls
Risk and Assurance
Internal Audit

There is ONE
streamlined solution
combining GRC,
ITSRM, and SIEM
advantages for SAP

How Do We Help You?

We assist customers in jump-starting their processes after implementation by providing full visibility into all best-practice risks relevant to RISE with SAP. This enables initial peer comparison and comprehensive coverage of the most critical risk areas. Customers are then empowered to mature over time by driving mitigations, ensuring effective risk management, further updating their assets inventory, and deciding how to address or automate the monitoring of remaining risks. Several options are available for this, including leveraging standard SAP tools and third-party monitoring solutions.

Solution Details

Our solution for Monitoring SAP Cybersecurity Risk and Compliance combines the advantages of IT Security Risk Management, GRC, and SIEM solutions. It provides best practice content, offers monitoring capabilities for the most critical risk areas, and consolidates your monitoring tools into a single source of truth for risks and your Technical, Organizational, and Operational Measures (TOOMs or TOMs). By integrating IT risks into enterprise risks, our solution reflects the trend where NIS2 and other regulations require a link between cybersecurity, risk, and assurance functions. Please refer to the details below to see the value of core features.

If you are already using our Easy SAP Security Baseline Monitoring (SBM) solution, you are well-positioned to advance to the next, highest maturity level in managing SAP risks and ensuring compliance.

Asset-Intelligent, Dynamic Risk Scoring

Value for you: This strategy ensures clear prioritization and efficient allocation of resources. It reduces the risk of false positives and prevents detection overkill. Most importantly, integrating IT risks into enterprise risk and quantifying them brings cybersecurity directly to the C-suite management levels!

Emphasized Prevention and System Hardening

Value for you: This approach helps to keep the attack surface small, to reduce the risk and cost of breaches, and to contribute to better allocation of resources.

Best Practice Content

Value for you: Complete coverage of relevant risk areas and an out-of-the-box baseline, along with a knowledge base of risks and mitigations, empower non-experts to handle coordination and mitigation tasks. This ensures that critical aspects of SAP cybersecurity risks and compliance are not overlooked.

Complex Logic Made Easy

Value for You: Handling one single configuration table instead of coding allows You to maximize precision and avoid false positives.

External and GRC Integration Capabilities

Value for You: Leveraging other monitoring tools—some available at no cost—allows you to optimize your investment. This holistic approach helps to overcome silos and redundancies, enabling security, risk, and compliance teams to work together seamlessly.

Review & Mitigation of Vulnerabilities

Value for You: Our solution helps address mitigations in an audit-proof manner, reducing external and internal audit efforts, and creating a solid base for all ITrelevant regulations.

Analytics

Value for You: This facilitates the interpretation and communication of risks to management, helps allocate resources effectively, and offers real-time insights into the state of compliance.

AI Assistant for Cybersecurity and Compliance

Value for You: AI technology allows management to engage with data more intuitively. It enables faster insights into the state of SAP cybersecurity and compliance, democratizing access to database information.

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What our Customers say

“We were able to start quickly and gain an instant overview of all vulnerabilities in SAP
applications. The convincing visualization of asset exposure greatly helped me in persuading top
management and establishing budget priorities!“

– CIO, from a Swiss SME

“Thanks to automation and a improved link between operations and compliance, our system
managers have developed a healthy competitive spirit: everyone wants their own systems to be secure and compliant!
Experiences are being proactively shared, and ongoing collaboration on tricky topics helps improve our Security and Compliance policy”

– Cyber Security VP, DAX Company