Business Fortune
For years, enterprise cybersecurity has focused on networks, endpoints, and cloud infrastructure. Yet some of the most business-critical systems in the world have quietly sat outside that spotlight. ERP platforms, financial systems, and operational backbones like SAP and Oracle have remained underprotected, despite holding the keys to revenue, supply chains, and regulatory compliance. Onapsis was founded to fix that blind spot.
Started by cybersecurity researchers who saw firsthand the real-world consequences of unsecured enterprise applications, Onapsis has grown into the industry standard for SAP security and compliance. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company operates globally and serves more than 300 leading brands, including Global 2000 enterprises that rely on SAP and Oracle systems to run their businesses. At its core, Onapsis exists for one reason: to help organizations reduce risk and protect the applications that matter most.
The Onapsis Difference
What separates Onapsis from traditional security vendors is focus. The company does not attempt to be everything to everyone. Instead, it concentrates on business-critical applications, the systems that directly support finance, operations, HR, manufacturing, and regulated processes.
These environments are complex, deeply interconnected, and often customized over years or decades. Generic security tools were never designed to understand their logic, permissions, or risks. By operating at the application layer, Onapsis delivers security that understands how SAP and Oracle actually work, not just how traffic flows around them.
Built for Business-Critical Applications
Enterprise applications are not just another part of the IT stack. They are the stack. A breach in SAP can halt manufacturing lines, expose financial data, disrupt payroll, or trigger regulatory penalties. Yet many organizations still rely on manual audits, infrequent patching, and fragmented visibility.
Onapsis addresses this gap by providing continuous insight into vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and active threats across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud landscapes. From legacy ECC systems to modern RISE with SAP environments, the platform is designed to protect applications throughout their lifecycle. This focus has made Onapsis a trusted partner for industries where downtime and data loss are not options, including financial services, healthcare, energy, government, and manufacturing.
Powered By Onapsis Research Labs
At the heart of the platform is Onapsis Research Labs, the company’s dedicated threat intelligence and vulnerability research team. This group tracks emerging risks, analyzes zero-day threats, and develops protective signatures often before official vendor patches are released.
This pre-patch protection is a defining advantage. In environments where applying patches can take weeks or months due to testing and operational constraints, predictive intelligence becomes critical. Onapsis allows organizations to reduce exposure without compromising system stability. Research-driven security is not a marketing line here. It is the foundation of how the company operates.
Visibility across Interconnected Environments
Modern enterprises rarely run a single system in isolation. SAP environments integrate with cloud platforms, third-party services, identity systems, and custom applications. Each connection introduces risk.
Onapsis provides visibility across these interconnected landscapes, helping security and application teams understand how vulnerabilities, roles, and configurations interact across systems. This holistic view enables smarter prioritization and faster remediation, especially in large, distributed environments. It also helps bridge the gap between SAP teams and security operations centers. By integrating directly with platforms like Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, and ServiceNow, Onapsis brings application-layer intelligence into existing SOC workflows.
Assess, Defend, Control
The Onapsis platform is built around three core capabilities that reflect how enterprises manage risk.
Assess: focuses on identifying vulnerabilities, understanding risk, and prioritizing remediation based on real-world impact. This includes baseline assessments aligned with SAP security standards and automated evaluations that replace time-consuming manual audits.
Defend: delivers continuous monitoring for threats, misuse, and active exploitation. By detecting unauthorized access, suspicious behavior, and zero-day attacks, Onapsis helps organizations respond before incidents escalate.
Control: brings analytics, reporting, and automation together to give teams command over their SAP and Oracle environments. It enables collaboration, automates workflows, and supports governance at scale.
Together, these capabilities turn security from a reactive function into an operational discipline.
Security for SAP BTP and Cloud Transformation
As enterprises move toward cloud-based architectures and platforms like SAP Business Technology Platform, security complexity increases. New users, services, and integrations can quickly create over-privileged access and misconfigurations.
Onapsis addresses this with dedicated Assess and Defend capabilities for SAP BTP, enforcing best practices for users, privileges, and configurations while delivering real-time alerts for unauthorized connections or risky role assignments. For organizations migrating to RISE with SAP, Onapsis plays a critical role in ensuring environments are secure by design from day one. As an SAP Endorsed App, the platform aligns closely with SAP’s architecture and transformation roadmap.
From Compliance to Cyber Resilience
Regulatory pressure continues to rise. Mandates like SOX, GDPR, NIST, and NIS2 demand continuous control, not point-in-time audits. Onapsis helps organizations move beyond checkbox compliance by automating controls and monitoring them continuously.
With add-ons like Onapsis Comply, enterprises can replace manual audit cycles with ongoing validation across their SAP landscapes. This not only reduces effort but also strengthens overall cyber resilience. Incident response is another critical area. When SAP incidents occur, time is everything. Onapsis accelerates response by providing precise intelligence, actionable insights, and remediation guidance tailored to business-critical applications.
Strengthening DevSecOps and Modern Development
As SAP environments evolve, security must shift left. Onapsis Control integrates application security testing directly into development pipelines, scanning custom code and transports before they reach production.
This approach helps organizations stop vulnerabilities early, support DevSecOps initiatives, and modernize without increasing risk. It also aligns security with innovation rather than slowing it down.
The Industry Standard for SAP Security
Onapsis has become the reference point for SAP security and compliance. Its solutions are the only ones endorsed by SAP, and its customer base spans financial services, healthcare, energy, government, and manufacturing sectors worldwide. What this really means is simple. As enterprises continue to digitize operations, move to the cloud, and face increasingly targeted attacks, application-layer security is no longer optional.
Onapsis was built for this moment. By eliminating long-standing blind spots and bringing intelligence, automation, and visibility to the systems that run the global economy, the company is helping organizations secure not just their IT environments, but the very core of how they do business.
Mariano Nunez | CEO
Mariano leads Onapsis, setting the company’s strategic vision and driving its growth into a global market leader in business application security and one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity firms worldwide. With over 20 years of experience, he is both an executive and hands-on security expert. He was the first to publicly address ERP cybersecurity risks at major conferences like RSA, Black Hat, and SANS, created the first open-source ERP penetration testing framework and uncovered critical vulnerabilities in SAP, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft systems.
