Mission-critical ERP under 24/7 protection - without growing the client's IT team
An international spirits manufacturer operating in nine countries approached us with a specific challenge: how to secure continuous protection of a mission-critical ERP system without hiring additional specialists in a demanding labour market.
Result
The client gained continuous security monitoring of a mission-critical ERP system without having to build an in-house SOC team from scratch. Incidents are now handled in under two hours, and seven recurring administrative processes are carried out today by digital workers.
As a result, the client's team regained time for project work and environment development, rather than being tied up entirely in day-to-day operations.
Full story: situation and our approach
Situation
Around 700 users across three legal entities relied on a shared ERP platform that, among other things, handled excise tax settlements across five jurisdictions. Any outage risked halting deliveries, and any security incident carried the risk of regulatory scrutiny, remediation work and operational disruption.
The internal IT team knew the environment well, but lacked the resources to provide round-the-clock monitoring, ongoing event analysis and regular SAP security patching.
What we did
We began with an audit of the security and authorisation configuration. We then deployed SecurityBridge - a monitoring and threat detection platform purpose-built for SAP environments.
We also took over the monthly SAP security patch cycle, and automated selected recurring administrative tasks using UiPath digital workers.
"SNOK took on responsibility for our ERP platform's security in a way that let us focus on growing the business."