In today’s business climate, running and maintaining an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform is critical. To keep up with changing consumer demands, complex supply chains, and constantly advancing technology, organizations are increasingly selecting SAP solutions, such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, or RISE with SAP S/4HANA, to stay ahead of market trends and power their businesses into the future. 

ERP systems require more data than ever, enabling leaders to make informed decisions based on trend tracking while empowering service representatives to better assist customers. With enough data at your disposal, robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) can similarly be leveraged to assist teams and augment workloads. 

All that data is invaluable — but that also makes it attractive to cyber criminals and threat actors with the ability to circumvent security systems and access the organizational and mission-critical data, including employees’ personally identifiable information, that your business must spare no expense to protect.

Tactics employed by today’s threat actors go well beyond the common phishing scam. Cyberthreats can be embedded within documents from trusted sources and go undetected by standard-issue antivirus softwares, releasing malware that lurks in the background of your technology systems, discreetly accessing sensitive information and files to compromise the security of not only your operations but also those of your business partners. 

The best way to protect data housed on SAP systems is to partner with experts who know these systems and their vulnerabilities inside and out.