ZeroPatch for S/4HANA: SAP-Aware Virtual Patching and Canary Orchestration
10/10
Demand Score
High-severity SAP CVEs are actively weaponized while patch windows are scarce; virtual patching buys time without outages.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$5k-40k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
16 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Expert
The Problem
A zero-downtime protection layer for SAP S/4HANA that delivers virtual patching for newly disclosed CVEs and orchestrates safe canary updates. It deploys SAP-aware reverse-proxy rules (OData- and ICF-
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Competitor Landscape
- Onapsis
- SecurityBridge
- SAP Enterprise Threat Detection (ETD)
- Generic WAFs (e.g., F5, Fortinet)
Must-Have Features for MVP
OData/ICF schema-aware WAF rules
RFC Gateway hardening policy push
Auto-discovery of internet-exposed SAP endpoints
Emergency mitigation rule packs mapped to CVEs
Canary patch orchestration with SUM/ChaRM
SBOM for SAP add-ons and transports
Safe rollback and impact monitoring
Latency budget management (<1% median)
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Maintaining near-zero false positives on Fiori/OData flows
- Customer change-control for proxy insertion
- Alignment with SAP support recommendations
- Timely, high-fidelity threat intel
Risk Level: Critical
🎯 Keys to Success
- Demonstrably blocks PoC exploits with no business disruption
- Certified or documented compatibility with SAP components
- 24/7 threat intel updates and rapid rule distribution
- Observable MTTR reduction for critical CVEs
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