S4 Shield: CVE‑2025‑42957 Virtual Patching & Detection
10/10
Demand Score
Active exploitation risk of a critical SAP vulnerability with potential financial and compliance impact.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$6k-25k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
6 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
Strict staff account limits:
Competitor Landscape
- Onapsis
- SecurityBridge
- Protect4S
- SAP Enterprise Threat Detection
Must-Have Features for MVP
Virtual patch layer for ICF/OData endpoints with minimal latency and rollback
Prebuilt detection content (Sigma/Splunk/Sentinel) for exploit indicators
Hardened authorization roles and RFC settings via signed transports
Automated exposure scanning of S/4 instances and interfaces
Attack emulation playbooks to verify mitigations
Audit-ready evidence packs and executive risk dashboards
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Maintaining SAP support boundaries with virtual patching
- Avoiding business disruption from false positives
- Coordinating with Basis/SecOps for transport and proxy deployment
- Landscape diversity (on‑prem, RISE, private cloud)
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- Time‑to‑shield <24 hours from subscription
- Zero critical findings in external pen tests post‑deployment
- No material transaction disruption attributable to rules
- Patch compliance achieved across instances within SLA
Ready to Build This?
This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.