AI Powered Threat Hunting in SAP and ERP Environments: Proactive Approaches to Cyber Defense

Abstract

The release of patch notes from certain SAP security weeklies leads to a number of
challenges, and as cyber threats grow in complexity and innovation legacy measures that are
taken for granted can fail to protect essential enterprise systems like those with SAP or any other
ERPs. Here is an exploration of a paper on the subject of AI powered Threat Hunting as part of
proactive cybersecurity to emerge within ERP environments. The article demonstrates at a high
level how using AI algorithms to continuously scan for potential security breaches, can help in
identifying and eliminating any threat before anything downtime or damage is caused to a
business. Realizing that successful detection systems need to Identify and respond to evolving
attack patterns, this blog attempts at investigating the solution provided by AI driven threat
hunting based on potential payoffs such as lowered response time and improved ability to catch
elusive new attack vectors, juxtaposed with challenges in terms of data privacy restrictions and
complexities due to integration requirements within existing security frameworks. Based on real
world use cases, this paper presents actionable measures for U.S. and European organizations to
use AI in strengthening their ERP systems against impending cyber dangers.