After announcing the enhanced go-to-market strategy of going beyond core enterprise resource planning (ERP) and SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementations in April, SAP partner Delaware Singapore is now ready to deliver SAP security services across Southeast Asia.
Delaware Singapore has recently formed a partnership with Netherlands-based SAP Platform Security solution Protect4S to bring its products to Southeast Asian companies. Christophe Derdeyn, Director at Delaware Singapore and Onno Coenen, Global Commercial Lead at Protect4S signed the agreement.
The Protect4S SAP Platform Security solution enables SAP security automation and continuous improvement by a repeated process of scanning, analysis, and mitigation executed on all relevant layers of the operating system, database, and application. Protect4S’ periodic scans use more than 1500 checks.
Explaining the purpose of the partnership, Derdeyn said:
“Delaware provides SAP implementations and SAP managed services worldwide, and we see that the pressure on SAP security is increasing sharply.”
“Protect4S has convinced us with their enormous number of security checks, ease of use, and a high degree of automation,” he added.
Building Partnership
Delaware Singapore’s collaboration with Protect4S aims to enhance SAP protection levels of companies in SEA. The partnership also makes the consulting company as the first reselling and SAP Managed Services partner in Singapore.
“With Delaware Singapore, we not only get a strong reselling and managed services partner for the Southeast Asia region but also worldwide via the other Delaware countries,” Coenen stated.
“This is another big step to accelerate our global growth,” the Protect4S executive stressed.
Reinforcing SAP Security
The Protect4S SAP Platform Security solution comes at the most opportune time now that cybersecurity threats and regulations are increasing, putting pressure on the SAP systems’ security. Aside from protecting business-critical SAP assets on a continuous basis, the solution also automates many processes and guides additional actions via clear dashboards, task lists, and reports.
Monthly, the SAP Product Security Response Team releases information on Patch Day Security Notes to fix vulnerabilities discovered in SAP products.
In May 2020, security firm Onapsis detected an extremely serious RECON vulnerability that affects all SAP applications running on SAP NetWeaver AS Java. Hackers can exploit the vulnerability, making all systems exposed to untrusted networks an attack target. This vulnerability affects over 40,000 SAP customers with increased exposure for an estimated 2,500 internet-facing systems.
Within only a few weeks, SAP was able to fix the flaw due to the seriousness of the RECON vulnerability that had involved the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The US-CERT Alert, AA20-195A, was issued in coordination with BSI CERT-Bun, followed by other global organisations providing warnings about potential threats associated with this vulnerability.
SAP has marked its Security Patch Day last 11th August releasing 15 security notes and an update to a previously released one (for the maximum severity RECON vulnerability – CVE-2020-6287 – in SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA).
Strengthening Presence in SEA
Delaware Singapore has been harnessing the region’s increased demand for digital transformation by partnering with technology solutions providers like Protect4S and Aprimo.
In July, Delaware has expanded alliance with Aprimo, a provider of technology solutions for content, operations, and performance. The partnership’s go-to-market approach offers expertise across marketing, digital, and customer experience in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
