Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems house an organization's most sensitive information, such as payroll, financials, business processes, inventory, and other crucial business data. Today, a large majority of organizations choose to invest in either an SAP or Microsoft Dynamics ERP system.

But with hundreds of thousands of companies around the world using an SAP ERP system, these ERPs have become a lucrative target for internet criminals(which carries additional implications for web stores built to be integrated with an SAP ERP).
Recent research from digital risk management firm Digital Shadows and cybersecurity firm Onapsis shows a significant rise in cyberattacks on SAP ERP applications which currently total 4,000 known security threats.