SecurityBridge has introduced the Cybersecurity Resilience Index for SAP (CRIS), a new benchmarking report designed to measure how well organizations protect their SAP environments. With this release, the company aims to give SAP customers a clearer picture of their security maturity while also helping them identify practical ways to improve cyber resilience.

The new report arrives at an important time. As global incidents involving SAP systems continue to raise concern, organizations are under increasing pressure to strengthen protection around critical business processes and sensitive enterprise data. In response, SecurityBridge developed CRIS to offer a more transparent and data-driven view of how SAP environments are secured across the industry.

To build the report, SecurityBridge collected anonymized customer benchmarking data through an industry-only feature that allows organizations to compare themselves with peer companies. The company then aggregated these customer insights to create benchmarks across eight distinct Areas of Responsibility, or AoRs. Because the findings are based on real-world customer environments, the report provides practical insight rather than theoretical assumptions. In fact, SecurityBridge says the data comes from the world’s largest community of SAP security customers.

Each Area of Responsibility receives a rating on a scale from 0 to 100 percent, with 100 percent representing full application of all relevant security controls. Moreover, the benchmarking process relies on what SecurityBridge describes as the most comprehensive SAP baseline in the industry. The company evaluates more than 550 different checks, which is more than double the number included in the standard SAP Security Baseline. As a result, CRIS offers a broader and more detailed view of SAP security maturity.

The report reveals several notable findings. First, most new customers begin with a score between 30 and 40 percent, which shows that many organizations still have substantial room to improve their SAP security posture. However, the report also indicates that these customers often make major progress within a few months of using SecurityBridge.

Among the measured categories, Authorizations scored 68 percent, highlighting possible attack paths linked to privilege types and ongoing excessive access issues. Meanwhile, Data Protection scored 65 percent, suggesting continued exposure to GDPR-related and other regulatory risks due to weak controls and inconsistent monitoring enforcement. On the other hand, Operating System received a perfect 100 percent, which points to strong, enforced, and audited host-level controls and system-hardening practices.

The report also found that Development reached 77 percent, signaling relatively mature secure coding practices that reduce attack surfaces in custom SAP code and support long-term risk reduction. However, Application Controls scored the lowest at 40 percent, which suggests meaningful gaps in business-level security and payment-related risk management.

“SAP is maturing, and that comes with a perception that the systems are secure by default or that securing them is too cumbersome,” said Holger Hügel, Chief Technology Officer at SecurityBridge. “That thinking is shifting, and our data-driven CRIS report provides insightful context for security leaders. We are bringing SAP and cybersecurity closer together through the report to provide a transparent look at the state of the industry. That’s our core goal with the CRIS, to drive conversation about getting started with SAP security and better protecting critical business processes and sensitive data.”

Overall, the CRIS report strengthens SecurityBridge’s position in SAP cybersecurity benchmarking. At the same time, it gives enterprises a more reliable way to understand where they stand, where they fall short, and where they should focus next. By combining real-world benchmarking with actionable insights, SecurityBridge is helping organizations move SAP security from a reactive task to a measurable maturity journey.

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