Case Study: Global Financial Services Provider achieves 12x faster application delivery and 75% reduction in false positives with Checkmarx Optimizer

Blue-Chip Financial Services Business Powers Application Optimization Velocity With Checkmarx Optimizer

A blue-chip global financial services institution faced a major AppSec bottleneck as rapid digital transformation produced a code explosion—3,000+ applications awaiting optimization, 12,000 users and 16,000 active projects generating overwhelming SAST findings—and the in-house team lacked the capacity and expertise to triage and remediate vulnerabilities fast enough to meet compliance and delivery goals.

They engaged Checkmarx Optimizer, embedding a managed-services team to perform extended scanning, query tuning and per-application remediation. In the initial phase the four-person team delivered 59 apps in 10 weeks (about 6/week), achieving 12x faster delivery versus alternatives, a 75% reduction in false positives (removing >19,500), 259 custom rules, 53,444 results triaged and 27,388 priority issues identified—clearing backlog faster, improving code health, and boosting in-house AppSec capacity and predictability.