SAP Sentinel: Security Canary & Circuit Breaker
10/10
Demand Score
Security incidents on SAP halt revenue-critical processes and create audit findings; teams need preventive controls that act before production impact.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$5k-25k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
16 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Vendor and Partner Mismatch:
Competitor Landscape
- SAP GRC
- Onapsis
- SecurityBridge
- Splunk Enterprise Security (SIEM)
- Snort/IDS (generic)
Must-Have Features for MVP
Transport queue scanner with risky-object heuristics and SoD checks
Canary execution orchestrator in non-prod with drift detection
Real-time anomaly detection on RFC/IDoc/auth logs
Circuit breaker policies to throttle or isolate destinations/users
Patch intelligence with prioritized remediation guidance
Just-in-time emergency access with time-bound tokens and full audit
SIEM/SolMan/GRC integrations and kill-switch governance
Post-incident forensic timeline and recovery playbooks
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Deep SAP integration across heterogeneous landscapes
- Risk of false positives causing unnecessary isolation
- Customer change-control policies for automated actions
- Data residency and sensitive log handling
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- Low-latency detection to action pipeline
- Accurate risk scoring to minimize false trips
- Clear governance for automatic isolation and rollbacks
- Evidence-rich audit trails satisfying internal/external auditors
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