Article 20 places direct accountability on individual members of the management body. A gap in SAP coverage is a documented governance failure.
Individual members of the management body are personally accountable
to file an early warning after a significant incident is detected
or 2% of global annual turnover – whichever is higher – in fines for essential entities
EU member states have transposed NIS2 into national law
Most organizations monitor SAP separately from the rest of their security program. NIS2 does not allow for that separation.
Article 21 sets out 10 risk-management measures. For organizations running SAP, everyone must be evidenced within SAP.
Article 23 sets a 24-hour reporting clock from the moment a significant incident is detected.
Article 20 places responsibility on individual members of the management body. A gap in SAP coverage is a gap in governance.
SecurityBridge gives SAP the visibility, monitoring, and evidence needed for NIS2.
Risks are checked, requirements are mapped, and audit-ready evidence is built in from day one.
Article 23 requires early warning within 24 hours of a significant incident.
Real-time detection of reportable incidents inside SAP, with structured audit trails and SIEM integration that support the full reporting lifecycle.
Article 21 measures and Article 23 reporting obligations connect to named platform capabilities inside SAP. SAP risks are rated and prioritized alongside your risk management program, giving you continuous audit-ready evidence.
RFC abuse, ABAP-layer vulnerabilities, transport changes, and privilege escalation at the SAP layer do not reach your SIEM unless detected first. Findings are sent directly into Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and IBM QRadar, including RISE-managed components.
Custom ABAP code is analyzed for security vulnerabilities and transport-layer change management controls what reaches production. Issues are caught during development, not after deployment, directly supporting Article 21(e).
Least privilege is enforced continuously, segregation-of-duties conflicts are monitored, and every Firefighter and emergency access session is tracked. High-risk SAP actions trigger risk-based MFA. Every access decision produces a traceable, audit-ready record.
SecurityBridge fully covers 9 of 10 Article 21 measures and Article 23 reporting obligations.
21(2)(a)
FULL
21(2)(c)
Limited*
21(2)(d)
FULL
21(2)(g)
FULL
21(2)(i)
FULL
Article 23
FULL
* SecurityBridge monitors SAP-layer signals that contribute to availability and change control. Backup infrastructure, system replication, failover, and disaster recovery orchestration remain the customer’s responsibility.
NIS2 involves more than one team. SecurityBridge gives each of them what they need.
Numbers from SecurityBridge’s own platform data.
Time to first security controls
and visibility
hoursSAP patch cycle reduced from a typical 10-day manual process to hours
SAP production systems protected globally across hundreds of enterprise customers
Case Study“SecurityBridge helped us automate our SAP application monitoring and vulnerability by easily integrating with our SIEM platform. By doing this, we boosted security, lowered costs, and allowed our security team to focus on remediation,”
Thierry Eyraud, Digital Risk Leader
Case Study"With my extensive experience in SAP, it's clear that SecurityBridge fills the critical security voids that SAP can't address alone."
Jaromir Wróblewski, Group IT Infrastructure Manager
Case Study“We selected SecurityBridge as the platform with the largest functional scope and seamless integration within the SAP technology stack.”
Stéphane Peteytas, Head of SAP Cybersecurity
Case Study"With our SAP partner, myBrand Conclusion, and the SecurityBridge Platform, we can structurally manage our risks and improve our SAP Security."
Marianna Pothof van Bekkum, Functional Application Manager
Case Study"The SecurityBridge Platform is easy to use, and the great support helps us to run our SAP Security services efficiently, from the audit to remediation and patching all the way down to Threat Detection.”
Mauro Del Quondam, Information Technology
Case Study"With SecurityBridge, we can efficiently enforce secure configurations across our large SAP landscape. The Security Roadmap gives our small but specialized team guidance and helps responding to critical SAP vulnerabilities.”
Daryl Mennen, SAP Security Architect
Case Study"SecurityBridge has streamlined our security processes, allowing us to move beyond the traditional ways of working in SAP Security. It provides all the necessary tools, enabling continuous and efficient improvement of our SAP security posture "
Jean-Luc Turin, Identity and Access Governance Director
Case Study“The SecurityBridge roadmap was crucial in helping us prioritize SAP system hardening tasks. We were
able to more than double our security level in a very short time and reduce patching efforts.”
Jonas Grein, CIM System
Case Study“Our multi-channel concept places high demands on the availability and security of our SAP system. With
SecurityBridge, we were able to significantly reduce our efforts in this regard.”
Daniel Schlund, Head of IT
Case Study"We have gained the needed visibility to identify business relevant cybersecurity threats, harden the SAP
landscape and respond immediately to zero-day and other critical SAP cybersecurity events.”
Dragomir Vatkov, Director Cyber Security Architecture
Video Case"After the RFP, we scored each vendor. When we finished with the process, UCB Biopharma found that it was a unanimous score from everyone towards SecurityBridge in most of these areas"
Abhijeet Pathania, Global ERP Access Management and GRC Lead, UCB Biopharma.
Video Case“With SecurityBridge, you have many topics predefined, so you get the benefits directly. You have best practices from the market built in and don’t have to configure everything by yourself or rely on experts who know the tool. If you know the SAP ecosystem and the ERP world, you can get started quickly and get a fast overview through the dashboard.”
Dennis Kaps, Executive security expert, Deutsche Telekom
NIS2 (Directive EU 2022/2555) is binding EU cybersecurity legislation that entered into force in January 2023 and required member state transposition by October 17, 2024. It covers risk management, incident reporting, supply chain security, and management accountability across essential and important entities in 18 critical sectors. As of April 2026, 22 of 27 member states have completed transposition and national authorities are actively supervising compliance.
Essential entities in energy, transport, banking, health, and public administration face stricter supervision and fines up to €10M or 2% of global turnover. Important entities in food, manufacturing, and digital services face fines up to €7M or 1.4% of global revenue. NIS2 also cascades through supply chains: organizations connected to in-scope entities may carry obligations through Article 21(d).
A SIEM ingests only what it is fed. SAP-layer events (RFC abuse, ABAP vulnerabilities, transport changes, privilege escalation) typically do not reach your SIEM without a dedicated detection layer at the SAP application level. That is what SecurityBridge does. Findings are sent directly into Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and IBM QRadar, including RISE-managed components.
SAP GRC is built for access governance and segregation of duties. NIS2 covers a broader set of obligations: incident detection, secure development, encryption, supply chain security, and audit-ready evidence across all of them. GRC does not produce that kind of evidence.
Essential entities face fines up to €10M or 2% of global annual turnover — whichever is higher. Important entities face up to €7M or 1.4% of global revenue. Beyond fines, regulators can issue remediation orders, require public disclosure of non-compliance, mandate customer notifications, and assign external monitors. Under Article 20, individual managers may face personal fines (up to €500,000 in Germany), temporary bans from management roles, and public naming by the regulator.
RISE covers the infrastructure layer. Security configuration, access control, custom code review, and incident detection at the application layer remain your responsibility. SecurityBridge extends detection and evidence collection into the components RISE customers cannot directly instrument.
