Layer Seven Security
Cybersecurity Extension for SAP Solutions

In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive business environment, the adoption of SAP solutions has become increasingly necessary for organizations looking to streamline their operations, improve efficiency, and stay ahead of the competition. However, most of the tools and technologies available for securing these solutions are not specifically geared and tuned to address the unique threats and vulnerabilities that target SAP solutions.

This is where Layer Seven Security brings value Layer Seven Security is an SAP partner and an industry leader in the provision of security solutions and services for SAP platforms. Layer Seven Security’s Cybersecurity Extension for SAP automates vulnerability management, threat detection, anomaly detection, and code vulnerability scanning to secure SAP platforms against advanced persistent threats. It is designed to work with on-premise, cloud, and hybrid SAP systems, providing near real-time security intelligence to detect vulnerabilities and indicators of compromise in SAP applications.

“The Cybersecurity Extension for SAP is an SAP-certified addon. It is tightly integrated with SAP ALM platforms which enables Layer Seven Security to leverage existing platforms, hardware, and hosts in SAP landscapes.”

In terms of vulnerability management, the Cybersecurity Extension for SAP performss automated daily scans at the system, user and code level to detect over 4,000 vulnerabilities, and provide guidance to remove the associated risks.

The solution also automates threat detection for SAP. “Most often than not, organizations lack the knowledge on the type of log information to collect, and the type of patterns they should be applying to detect and respond to security incidents, captured within those logs. Our tool resolves this issue by including more than 700 predefined patterns that customers can apply to detect threats in their SAP logs. It also performs anomaly detection to discover unusual system or user behaviour, ” explains Dhillon.

Compliance reporting is another important aspect of the Cybersecurity Extension for SAP. This enables SAP clients to automate their audits for SAP systems.

Using the Cybersecurity Extension for SAP, clients can perform automated gap assessments to detect control gaps with over 15 security frameworks including NIST, CIS, GDPR, SOX, and PCI DSS. This avoids the need for costly and time-consuming manual audits. SAP customers can also create their custom compliance frameworks for internal IT policies or other requirements to automate compliance monitoring.

One instance of Layer Seven Security’s successful client engagement was its recent collaboration with a global beverage company with over 600 brands in 150 countries. The company ran a well-known and high-cost cybersecurity solution that managed their risks in a large, diverse, and globally-dispersed SAP landscape. Since the SAP systems supported business-critical supply chain and finance requirements, the need to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the systems was high.

The Cybersecurity Extension for SAP is an SAP-certified addon. It is tightly integrated with SAP ALM platforms which enables Layer Seven Security to leverage existing platforms, hardware, and hosts in SAP landscapes

However, the client operated in a competitive market and needed to minimize their costs. Consequently, they evaluated the Cybersecurity Extension for SAP (CES) from Layer Seven Security during a six-month proof-of-concept as an alternative to the existing solution.

The evaluation comprised the functional security checks performed for SAP applications and custom ABAP code. It also included criteria for reporting capabilities, user experience, and ease of maintenance. The organization realized substantial cost savings without any loss in coverage or functionality by replacing its existing security solution with the Cybersecurity Extension for SAP.

Success stories like this are a testament to Layer Seven Security’s unique combination of high-quality coverage with competitive pricing. Fostering years of experience in the security industry, Layer Seven Security is a clear alternative and competitor of Onapsis, Security Bridge, SAP Enterprise Threat Detection (ETD), and SAP Code Vulnerability Analyzer (CVA). The innovative Cybersecurity Extension for SAP delivers industry-leading protection for business-critical SAP solutions against advanced cyber threats.