Your SAP estate deserves the same security visibility

Ask most security teams how quickly they could tell you who changed a critical permission in SAP last Tuesday, and you will get an uncomfortable pause. Not because the team isn't good, but because SAP tends to sit in its own world. The processes that matter most, including order-to-cash, finance, and customer data, generate huge volumes of security-relevant activity, and almost none of it reaches the place where threats actually get spotted. 

That blind spot is where real risk lives. Here is why it persists, how to close it, and which sectors feel the pain most acutely. 

The challenges SAP teams keep running into

Blind spots in the estate. SAP produces rich, security-relevant logs across both the application and database layers. The problem is that this data rarely makes it into your SIEM, so the events that matter never get correlated against everything else you monitor. Missing logging and missing SIEM integration are two of the most common gaps in SAP security, and they are also two of the most dangerous. 

Insider threats and account compromise. Excessive permissions, dormant accounts, and quietly expanding privileges are difficult to catch with generic tooling. Attackers know this. As the saying goes in the wider security world, the most effective intruders don't break in, they log in. By the time a misused or compromised SAP account is noticed, the damage is often already done. 

Compliance you have to prove, not just claim. NIS-2, DORA, and ISO 27001 have raised the bar. Regulators now expect demonstrable, real-time evidence of who accessed business-critical data and when, and senior managers are increasingly liable for getting it wrong. Preparing that evidence by hand is slow, costly, and rarely audit-ready on the first attempt. 

Security projects that never seem to start delivering. Native options can look appealing until you realise they can turn into year-long implementation projects before you see any value. When the systems in question are the ones your business runs on, that is a long time to wait. 

How Claranet Threat Detection solves them

Claranet Threat Detection for SAP Technology is built specifically for SAP environments, and it tackles each of these challenges directly. It is built on a proven foundation: the BCS technology Claranet acquired from Logpoint, already in production with established customers, which we are now further developing and modernising. 

It starts by giving you visibility. More than 15 specialised data extractors capture and normalise security-relevant SAP logs and feed them straight into the SIEM you already use. There are no SAP add-ons to install, it stays completely vendor-independent, and it works with RISE with SAP. Your SAP data finally becomes part of your central security picture instead of a silo nobody watches. 

On top of that visibility, more than 500 SAP-specific detection rules analyse the data and deliver prioritised, clearly substantiated alerts. This is detection tuned for the way SAP actually gets attacked, not a generic ruleset bolted on as an afterthought. 

To catch what rules cannot, the Behave module builds individual behavioural profiles for your SAP users and flags deviations from normal patterns. That is how you surface compromised accounts, insider threats, and creeping permission expansion before they escalate into something serious. Behave is expected later this year. 

When you are ready to act faster, Respond adds automated playbooks that can lock a compromised account, revoke permissions, or raise a ticket without waiting for someone to intervene. It is expected as a standalone extension towards the end of this year. 

The result is compliance you can support with clear evidence, threats you can see and stop, and a service that is up and running in days and weeks rather than quarters. You can begin with the modules available today and grow towards a fully managed service, monitored around the clock by Claranet's dedicated SAP Security SOC, whenever it suits you. 

Which sectors benefit most

Threat Detection is a strong fit for any organisation whose core operations depend on SAP and that has to prove those systems are protected. A few sectors stand out:

1. Financial services and banking. DORA has made operational resilience a board-level obligation, and SAP often sits at the heart of finance and reporting. Demonstrable, real-time oversight of access to critical data is no longer optional here.
2. Manufacturing and industrials. SAP frequently underpins production planning, supply chain, and order fulfilment. An outage or breach does not just expose data, it stops product moving, so early detection directly protects revenue.
3. Transport, logistics, and critical infrastructure. These are squarely within scope for NIS-2, and many run SAP at the centre of operations. Bringing SAP into central monitoring helps meet the regulatory duty and the operational one at the same time.
4. Retail and consumer goods. High transaction volumes, sensitive customer data, and complex SAP landscapes make these organisations attractive targets and demanding compliance cases.
5. Energy, utilities, and the wider public sector. Essential services carry some of the heaviest regulatory expectations, and SAP commonly supports their back-office and operational processes.
6. Professional services and any SAP-reliant enterprise. If your business runs on SAP and you already operate a SIEM or SOC, Threat Detection slots in without a disruptive, SAP-specific project.

The common thread is simple. If SAP holds your crown jewels and a regulator, an auditor, or your own board expects you to prove they are safe, this is built for you. 

Bring your SAP estate into view

You already invest in monitoring the rest of your environment. Your SAP systems, the ones running the business, deserve the same line of sight. If you would like to see how Claranet Threat Detection would work alongside your existing SIEM, and how quickly you could be up and running, get in touch with our team today.