ERP Integration Shield (EIS): Zero‑Trust Guard for ERP Interfaces
10/10
Demand Score
Exposed integration points are an active breach vector and compliance risk; immediate containment and attestation are required.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-15k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
60 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
An ERP-specific integration firewall that auto-discovers every inbound/outbound interface (IDoc, RFC, BAPI, OData, SOAP, MQ, SFTP) and enforces least-privilege, per-integration policies. EIS deploys a
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 4 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Salt Security
- Noname Security
- Imperva API Security
- Kong Gateway
- Apigee
- SAP Web Dispatcher
- SAP PI/PO / Integration Suite (as transport, not security)
Must-Have Features for MVP
Automatic interface discovery and topology map
Just-in-time policy generation and drift detection
mTLS/JWT enforcement with JWK rotation
Real-time anomaly detection on IDoc/RFC/OData activity
Pre-prod fuzzing and adapter SBOM with CVE mapping
Honeytoken endpoints and canary credentials
Quarantine mode and safe policy rollback
SIEM/GRC integrations (Splunk, QRadar, SAP GRC)
Latency budget enforcement (<10ms overhead)
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Deep SAP protocol coverage (RFC/BAPI) without performance impact
- Coexistence with existing gateways/reverse proxies
- On-prem network approvals and certificate management
- Ensuring agentless/low-touch deployment for regulated environments
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- Full coverage of all ERP integration types within 2 weeks
- Blocklists/allowlists that cut unauthorized calls on day 1
- Prove blast-radius reduction and audit trails to InfoSec/CFO
- No perceptible latency or downtime during cutover
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