Ingolstadt, December 7, 2021 – Ransomware is the bugbear of IT security departments these days. SAP has only been affected to a limited extent so far, but it can certainly be abused as a gateway. SAP applications therefore need holistic protection, recommends SecurityBridge, provider of cybersecurity for SAP applications. Defending against attacks is usually less expensive than dealing with the consequences of a successful attack.

Traditional cybersecurity methods are not enough to successfully defend against ransomware attacks on SAP systems. These usually focus on endpoints, networks and backups – important security components that still do not provide sufficient protection against attacks. The reason: existing SAP vulnerabilities can very easily be used by criminals as attack vectors.

To protect SAP applications from ransomware attacks, SAP user companies should ensure robust, accurate real-time threat monitoring and support it with modern techniques such as anomaly detection. Abnormal operations are thus detected and reported in real time, regardless of how much the threat actors change their attack vectors.

Necessary measures in the course of prevention include regular updates of all components including SAP and hardening from the client to the SAP application. Containment precautions are found primarily in network segmentation.