SAP Systems contain many vulnerabilities, essentially open doors that allow unintended access to your data and systems. These open doors leave you at risk of cyberattack, business exploitation, and data theft. In fact, the number of open doors within a typical production SAP system can easily be tens, or sometimes hundreds, some of which will date back to your initial implementation.
New doors in SAP are being opened, or being discovered to be open, every week either because of local changes to your environment, such as adding new connections, users, or interfaces, or because of new vulnerabilities being discovered which require urgent patching.
Continuous scanning of SAP security vulnerabilities cannot be performed without a tool. Unfortunately, even those companies that have already invested in an SAP vulnerability scanning tool are rarely using it effectively, largely because of a lack of resources, or perhaps it is expected to be done by their Application Service Provider? (Have you checked when they last did a full vulnerability scan? 🤔)
Companies that have no vulnerability scanning tools in place are literally relying on a wing and a prayer that they have not yet had their systems or data breached.