Case Study: BayernLB achieves ECB compliance and dependency-free source-code scanning with Checkmarx

BayernLB - Customer Case Study

BayernLB, a leading German commercial bank, needed to tighten application security to meet European Central Bank requirements while supporting a wide range of programming languages and in-house or off-shore development workflows. Their key challenge was finding a static application security testing (SAST) tool that could scan pure source code without requiring standardized builds or dependent libraries.

They chose Checkmarx because it uniquely met those needs and deployed smoothly. Checkmarx is now integrated into developers’ IDEs for regular code hygiene checks and used for security-critical pre-production scans from the repository, scanning dozens of applications regularly. The solution’s ability to scan raw source code, plus its user-friendly interface and workflows, helped BayernLB comply with ECB standards and improve its secure-development practices.

BayernLB

Thomas Zierer

Technical Architect