RHONDOS and Devo Partner on SAP Solution (July 2022)
RHONDOS is proud to have established a strategic partnership with Devo, the only cloud-native logging and security analytics platform. RHONDOS will bring PowerConnect for SAP to Devo, and together we will provide mutual customers with an all-in-one solution so they can confidently address the question of how to maximize the potential of time-stamped SAP data.
After working with hundreds of Fortune 2000 enterprises that needed a solution to secure and monitor their SAP environments with greater confidence, the RHONDOS team couldn’t be more excited about working together with Devo to build on the value we are already bringing to SAP customers every day.
How can SAP-dependent companies reach a point of greater confidence?
The answer is by moving their SAP environments to Devo using PowerConnect.
Business-critical data generated by SAP systems is highly valuable throughout an enterprise. With PowerConnect, accessing SAP data in the cloud-native Devo environment provides gives greater visibility and instills a competitive advantage and confidence of 400 days of always-hot data.
Beyond these security initiatives, current RHONDOS customers have slashed MTTR by 70% and reduced P1 issues by as much as 30% while achieving compliance with SAP security standards.
Exploring the Value of Devo for SAP Data
SAP is a mission-critical ERP system. It contains extremely strict retention policies designed to maintain efficient operation of production environments and a transaction schema standardized for maximum support for more than 50,000 of the largest companies around the globe. Understandably, for each organization, finding the appropriate reporting options for security and performance-related data is limited, making Devo’s ability to provide the fastest query capabilities extremely valuable for an SAP ecosystem.
Bringing SAP data to the forefront is not only a technological challenge, but a priority. As security practitioners, we must champion organizational change through uniting teams and solutions together. With RHONDOS and Devo together, we can confidently say we will act as trusted advisors for organizations that benefit from our solutions.
PowerConnect for Devo provides SAP teams the means to quickly view key insights such as SAP monitoring and SAP security.
The result is a solution that brings an SAP-specific domain into the Security Operations Center (SOC) where SAP-specific Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) can be monitored.
Focus on Security
On May 12th 2021, an executive order from the White House summarized the importance of safeguarding against critical supply chain cyber-attacks. This cannot be ignored.
The new standard must be to detect faster, which requires scaling the Security Operations Center with availability of comprehensive data. Our SOC’s must not only have the ability to search, but also have full visibility into all of their datasets, regardless of how generic that data is thought to be.
In addition, we must move away from the legacy standard of implicit trust. “Always assume breach” is a mindset and culture we must move towards. A risk-prioritized approach is crucial to detecting and containing a breach.
Security-First Mindset
Security is now more important than ever before. SAP teams have varying degrees of what defines good security within the corporation’s mission-critical systems, which may manifest as frameworks, products, solutions, or change agents. Regardless of exact definition, implementation requires agile solutions to map to their security maturity.
With a security-first mindset, we seek to achieve visibility through all layers by enabling a data platform approach. This is where PowerConnect is fundamental in data access for security operations. With a whole organization approach, SAP security data must become available, visible, and searchable as a bare minimum capability. We can no longer make assumptions about SAP data.
“Together, RHONDOS and Devo are knocking down perennial barriers, both organizational and technological, between SAP security teams and traditional SecOps" said Matt Colabrese, VP of RHONDOS. "This is one platform that combines all threat feeds—now including the ingest of on-premises or cloud SAP data—to provide true visibility into the full attack surface. The platform handles massive amounts of esoteric data in near real-time and enables analysts to detect and respond to threats as quickly as they arise.”
Make the Move to Modern
Empowerment means having the knowledge and confidence to make decisions for oneself. When it comes to SAP, knowledge is available to the Basis and functional teams, but the velocity by which that knowledge is assimilated is too slow for modern cyber threats. Additionally, SOCs do not have the same visibility to security-focused transaction details such as those found with SM20, SM04, SU53 or STRUST.
This is where SAP PowerConnect for Devo has an immediate return on investment. Right out of the box, teams are empowered to visualize and alert upon in real-time security concerns such as privileged account abuse, sensitive transaction frequencies, and suspicious login activity.
