Security News > 2022 > June > 40% of enterprises don’t include business-critical systems in their cybersecurity monitoring

The poll was targeted at cybersecurity and IT professionals in both the U.S. and UK. The problem with monitoring of business-critical systems.

The poll revealed the extent of insecure and unmonitored business-critical systems, with 40 per cent noting that they do not include business-critical systems such as SAP in their cybersecurity monitoring.

A further 27 per cent were unsure if it was included in their cybersecurity monitoring at all.

Failure to do so can create a blind spot for businesses and make it challenging to detect and quickly respond to fraud and threats within SAP. To add to this, only 23 per cent said the process of reviewing SAP logs for cybersecurity events or cyberthreat activity was automated through SIEM, with almost 19 per cent still doing so manually.

"Bringing SAP systems under the remit of cybersecurity solutions can massively reduce the security risks and provide logs to aid any audit processes. Accommodating it within the SIEM, for example, can enable these applications to benefit from automation and continuous monitoring, as well as coordinated threat detection and response with log storage, and log management to assist in subsequent investigations," commented Lintell.

For those businesses looking to invest in cloud security, a near 40 per cent of respondents regarded software licensing in the cloud as too expensive, with 24 percent declaring it led to unknown future costs.

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