McCoy & Partners: Enhancing SAP Security Through McCoy & Partners and SecurityBridge Collaboration
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About McCoy & Partners
McCoy & Partners is the go-to independent SAP partner in the Netherlands. Their mission is to simplify the IT landscapes and processes of our clients. Their proven approach offers flexibility in your IT systems to support your business opportunities. The company offers various services such as HR transformation, simple procurement, intelligent logistics, smart finance and intelligent planning.
Based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, McCoy & Partners, an employee-owned service provider, supports customers in various SAP domains through a managed service portal. The company specializes in assisting mid-market sector companies, with a majority in the manufacturing industry, as well as in higher education, wholesale, local government, and consumer products sectors.
Challenges
The primary challenge faced by McCoy’s clientele was the lack of in-house IT expertise and awareness concerning the security risks associated with SAP systems. Many of these mid-sized companies assumed that SAP systems, whether on-premises or cloudbased, were inherently secure. In reality, improperly configured systems and inadequate authorizations exposed these organizations to various security risks and vulnerabilities
“The primary challenge faced [...] was the lack of in-house IT expertise and awareness concerning the security risks associated with SAP systems.”
Solution
To address the pressing need for SAP security, McCoy forged a strategic partnership with global SAP security provider SecurityBridge, a company sharing McCoy’s entrepreneurial spirit. SecurityBridge was chosen due to its industry reputation and ability to build a robust and holistic SAP security offering with a partner’s existing solution. This collaboration provided McCoy’s customers with an adaptable security solution that did not necessitate the onboarding of additional qualified IT resources.
With SecurityBridge’s integration, McCoy can offer its customers comprehensive SAP domain protection. The SecurityBridge solution expands McCoy’s security services, bridging crucial security gaps. The SecurityBridge solution’s code analyzer module raises security awareness among McCoy’s development team, vital for internal SAP security comprehension.
SecurityBridge helps monitor cloud-based SAP applications, ensuring proper security measures at the application level. McCoy’s monitoring suite can observe whether SAP is appropriately secured in the cloud. SecurityBridge assigns value and patch scores for all new patches released by SAP, focusing on Category 1 and 2 patches. This monitoring facilitates a more controlled environment by visualizing issues and resolutions.
"With SecurityBridge‘s integration, McCoy can offer its customers comprehensive SAP domain protection.”
Benefits
The partnership between McCoy and SecurityBridge has yielded an array of benefits:
- Enhanced Security: With SecurityBridge, McCoy can offer its clients complete SAP protection, including monitoring and ensuring proper configurations and authorizations, thus significantly reducing the attack surfaces.
- Cost Efficiency: Mid-sized organizations can gain comprehensive SAP security solutions without the financial burden of hiring in-house IT experts.
- Increased Awareness: SecurityBridge’s tools help raise security awareness among McCoy’s clients and within McCoy’s development team.
- Patch Management: The ability to monitor and manage patches effectively ensures that systems easily remain updated and exhibit zero vulnerabilities.
- Flexibility and Scalability: The collaborative security model developed by McCoy and SecurityBridge provides a flexible and scalable solution catering to different organizations’ specific needs and budgets.
- Strengthened Professionalism: McCoy’s offerings have been bolstered through this partnership, allowing them to deliver more professional and tailor-made SAP security services.
- Support and Collaboration: SecurityBridge’s dedicated team ensures a conducive working environment and superior customer support, further enhancing the value of this partnership
By aligning with industry trends and the pressing need for application-level security in cloud-based SAP systems, McCoy and SecurityBridge’s collaboration has proved a gamechanger, delivering an adaptable, comprehensive, and affordable SAP security solution.
About SecurityBridge
SecurityBridge is the leading provider of a comprehensive, SAP-native cybersecurity platform. Trusted by organizations worldwide to safeguard their most critical business systems. Our platform seamlessly integrates real-time threat monitoring, vulnerability management, and compliance capabilities directly into the SAP environment, empowering organizations to protect their data’s integrity, confidentiality, and availability with minimal manual effort. With a proven track record, including a stellar customer success rating and over 5,000 SAP systems secured globally. SecurityBridge stands out for its ability to accurately provide a 360° view of the SAP security posture, ease of use, rapid implementation, and transparent licensing. We are committed to innovation, transparency, and customer-centricity, ensuring businesses can confidently navigate the evolving landscape of SAP security threats.
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