Join the conversation with Under Armour's cybersecurity expert Gaurav Singh to dive deeper into cyber endurance. Learn zero-trust strategies to secure your cloud ERP and stay agile in API-driven systems.

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This Future of ERP podcast episode explores cybersecurity resilience in ERP systems, emphasizing endurance and agility to protect brands and supply chains. It highlights the shift from on-premises as a "black box" to cloud-first, API-driven environments that demand new security approaches. Zero trust architecture emerges as essential for securing modern ERP, given its openness to external threats. Daily security practices, like layered defenses, parallel athletic endurance to stay ahead of evolving cyber adversaries. Operational challenges include balancing availability with patching, prioritizing business continuity over rigid security timelines. Policies, standards, and controls form the foundation, supported by people, processes, and technology to safeguard sensitive data. A performance mindset fosters resilience through regular testing of business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Strong cybersecurity shifts from a cost center to a business enabler by partnering with teams rather than blocking initiatives. The future of ERP is predicted to be API-first, hybrid, and AI-integrated, heightening the need for proactive identity management. Overall, the discussion calls for continuous learning to keep pace with threats in this dynamic landscape.

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Guest: Gaurav Singh, Cyber Security Leader at Under Armour

Gaurav Singh is an SAP cybersecurity manager at Under Armour with more than 19 years of experience and a proven track record of helping organizations protect themselves from cyber threats while maximizing their SAP investments. In addition to his cybersecurity leadership role, Gaurav is an accomplished speaker and published author. He has presented at the SAP conference’s cybersecurity track, been featured in international journals, and been recognized as an SAP Insider Expert. 

Gaurav’s expertise spans the entire spectrum of SAP security, including identity and access controls; governance, risk, and compliance; vulnerability management; threat management; incident response; and backup and disaster recovery. He is passionate about going beyond traditional SAP security to implement true cybersecurity, covering all aspects of SAP's secure operations map, from infrastructure to cloud security.

Host 1: Richard Howells, SAP

Richard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.

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Key Topics: cybersecurity, ERP, SAP, zero trust, cloud, endurance, agility.