As cyber threats targeting SAP systems grow in complexity, organizations need not only to detect threats swiftly but also to respond effectively and efficiently. SAP Enterprise Threat Detection (ETD) excels at real-time detection of suspicious activities within SAP environments, but the next step is to automate and orchestrate incident response workflows to minimize damage and reduce manual overhead.
Integrating ETD with Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms offers a powerful combination—enabling seamless threat detection, automated investigation, and coordinated response across the enterprise security ecosystem.
SOAR platforms centralize and streamline security operations by automating routine tasks, orchestrating workflows across disparate tools, and enabling faster incident response. They combine:
By integrating SAP ETD with SOAR, organizations can automatically translate SAP-specific security alerts into actionable workflows, reducing response times and improving overall security posture.
ETD’s real-time alerts can trigger automated workflows in SOAR platforms to investigate and remediate threats without delay. For example, suspicious SAP user activity detected by ETD can automatically initiate account lockdown or session termination.
Integration enables automatic ticket creation, assignment, and tracking within IT Service Management (ITSM) tools connected to the SOAR platform, ensuring consistent handling and auditability.
SOAR platforms can enrich ETD alerts with external threat intelligence, providing analysts with better context for decision-making.
Automating repetitive tasks such as log gathering, enrichment, and initial triage frees up security analysts to focus on complex investigations.
SOAR platforms can coordinate response actions across SAP and non-SAP systems, ensuring holistic containment and remediation.
Leverage ETD’s RESTful APIs, Kafka connectors, or webhook capabilities to export alerts and events to the SOAR platform in real time.
Define use cases and workflows in the SOAR platform that correspond to ETD’s detection scenarios. For instance, map a detected unauthorized privilege escalation in SAP to a playbook that investigates user behavior and quarantines accounts if necessary.
Configure SOAR to automatically gather additional data from ETD and other integrated sources to enrich alerts and reduce false positives.
Use SOAR’s automation capabilities to execute response actions such as disabling SAP user accounts, revoking sessions, or triggering multi-factor authentication enforcement.
Continuously monitor integration effectiveness and update playbooks based on evolving threat landscapes and organizational needs.
Integrating SAP Enterprise Threat Detection with SOAR platforms transforms SAP security operations from reactive to proactive, enabling faster, smarter, and more coordinated incident response. This synergy allows enterprises to better defend their SAP landscapes against sophisticated threats while optimizing security team productivity.
By automating detection-to-response workflows, organizations can reduce dwell time, minimize risk, and ensure the resilience of their critical SAP systems.