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erpwnage: A Red Team Approach to Targeting SAP Enterprise Systems

Austin Marck

Austin Marck demonstrates red team tradecraft for targeting SAP and ERP platforms, demonstrating protocol exploitation, RFC abuse, and business logic takeover.

Summary

SAP and ERP Systems as High-Value Crown Jewels

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms like SAP manage critical financial records, payroll, and supply chain operations, making them prime targets for threat actors.

Deconstructing SAP Protocols and Communication Interfaces

Austin Marck analyzes the complex communication layers of SAP architectures—including SAP GUI, RFC gateways, DIAG protocols, and web services.

Executing Remote RFC Abuse and Business Logic Takeover

The speaker demonstrates discovering unauthenticated RFC functions, abusing default service users, and escalating privileges to execute operating system commands.

Hardening SAP Infrastructure and Monitoring TTPs

The presentation provides enterprise defenders with SAP security baselines, network segregation patterns, and guidance for auditing sensitive transaction logs.

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