First SAP cyber security project on the continent of Africa goes live

Issued by DeltaGRiC Consulting
Johannesburg, 05 Feb 2016

DeltaGRiC Consulting, the only consultancy within the SAP Africa Ecosystem focused on helping African businesses running on SAP have a secured SAP landscape, just recently completed the first ever SAP cyber security project on the continent of Africa, at the Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation (RSSC).

The aim of the project as was to critically examine the SAP landscape of the RSSC from a vulnerability assessment point of view, look into the existing configuration, privileges and rights of users within the landscape, as well as the custom programs (Z-programs) in order to identify loopholes that could potentially permit insider and external attacks on the SAP landscape.

Fact sheet

Solution: SAP, ERPScan

Industry: Sugar manufacturing

Provider: DeltaGRiC Consulting

User: Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation

"We recognise that keeping a secure cyber security posture on our SAP Application landscape goes a long way to helping us build an organisation that is healthy and works for the benefit of all stakeholders, partners, shareholders and employees alike," says the Infrastructure Manager at RSSC.

This will be the first time on the continent of Africa that a SAP-centric cyber security project is delivered. It was delivered on budget and on time by duo team members of DeltaGRiC Consulting and ERPScan (a global leading firm in SAP pen testing, SAP vulnerability assessments and detecting of zero-day vulnerabilities). The combination of the team gave a dynamic approach to the execution of the project using the industry's most respected and multi-award-winning tool - ERPScan Monitoring Security tool, and a project management methodology that gave room for flexible yet firm delivery.

"Generally, cyber threats on IT landscapes have become a boardroom topic and something to be discussed from a strategic approach. At RSSC, we make it a point of duty to take all the necessary security measures that needed to be taken on our SAP landscape as per SAP recommendations, hence the implementation of this cyber security project came through at the right time to show us what we could do better and how to maintain a more formidable SAP landscape," said the RSSC CIO.

DeltaGRiC Consulting

DeltaGRiC Consulting is the only SAP Africa Ecosystem consultancy focused solely on helping SAP run and Oracle-PeopleSoft run organisations mitigate cyber security risks and compliance violations using the industry's multi-award-winning and most credible solution - ERPScan Monitoring Suite. DeltaGRiC's niche proposition is SAP/Oracle Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing and SAP Forensics as well as Threat Pattern Formulation & Detection.

ERPScan

ERPScan is the most respected and credible business application security provider, founded in 2010 and highly rated by CRN and Gartner for innovation in cyber security. Its primary mission is to close the gap between technical and business security and provide solutions to evaluate and secure ERP systems and business-critical applications from both cyber attacks as well as internal fraud. Located in Netherlands and US to operate local offices and partner networks spanning over 20+ countries across the globe (this enables monitoring cyber threats in real-time while providing an agile customer support).

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First SAP cyber security project on the continent of Africa goes live

DeltaGRiC Consulting recently successfully completed the first SAP cyber security project in the continent of Africa.