Companies are falling behind on securing their SAP environments

More than 95 percent of SAP systems deployed in enterprises are exposed to vulnerabilities that could lead to a full compromise of business data, a security firm claims.

Onapsis, a Boston-based company that specializes in SAP security audits, also found that the average time-to-patch for SAP vulnerabilities is more than 18 months—12 months for SAP to issue fixes and 6 months for companies to deploy them.

This suggests that many companies are falling behind on SAP security, even though these systems hold some of their most critical and confidential information.

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