Global Payment Leader Automates Risk Management with Enterprise Governance

Proactive Threat Elimination

Working directly with the Sonatype team, they executed a comprehensive malware hunt across its repositories using custom scripts. This proactive approach not only made it possible to ensure their environment was free of malicious OSS components, it also allowed them to ensure they had a playbook to respond the next time a large-scale malware attack occurs.

Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure

The team migrated its core infrastructure to PostgreSQL with a clear roadmap to resilient Kubernetes deployment, ensuring high availability of business-critical services. This strategic infrastructure investment provides the scalable foundation necessary for enterprise-wide governance.

Regulatory Excellence

They engineered powerful custom integrations between Sonatype's APIs and Power BI, creating bespoke vulnerability reports for executive management and regulatory bodies, including the Bank of England. These dashboards transform raw security data into actionable governance intelligence that meets the most stringent compliance requirements.

Developer-Centric Security

Sonatype Lifecycle was deeply embedded within Jenkins pipelines as a critical quality gate, with plans to progressively adopt stricter policies. The team also designed streamlined waiver processes using the custom quarantine messaging in Sonatype Repository Firewall, linking developers directly to internal documentation at the moment they're blocked.

Measurable Security and Operational Excellence

The organization successfully eliminated all critical vulnerabilities from its key containerized environments through disciplined upgrade and patching strategies. Building on this proven container security maturity, they're now planning a "secure container factory" project to scale these zero-tolerance standards across their entire containerized software supply chain.

Developers have responded with overwhelmingly positive feedback on the tool’s priorities view, confirming its effectiveness in helping them reduce vulnerabilities more efficiently. All of this has helped the organization break down organizational silos and create consistent alignment, while development team leads are brought into strategic conversations, fostering organization-wide adoption of secure practices

The results demonstrate how strategic platform investment delivers both immediate security improvements and long-term competitive advantages.

Engineering Excellence Through Balanced Governance

By automating platform hygiene through comprehensive cleanup policies in Sonatype Nexus Repository, they're proactively managing both risk and cost while keeping their environment lean and secure. This forward-looking approach to infrastructure management supports sustainable growth at enterprise scale.

The organization's approach demonstrates sophisticated thinking about the relationship between security governance and developer productivity. Their "warn early, fail late" philosophy ensures security oversight becomes a supportive function rather than a bottleneck.

Turning Security Intelligence into Continuous Compliance and Innovation

The custom regulatory reporting capabilities they've built demonstrate how security intelligence can become a strategic asset, enabling faster compliance processes and more informed decision-making at the executive level. This integration of security data into business intelligence systems represents the future of governance in highly regulated industries.

Their commitment to continuous improvement, treating the SDLC as a system requiring ongoing optimization, ensures they'll continue to maximize value from their investment while maintaining their position as an industry leader in secure software development.

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