Case Study: Higher Education Management Software Provider achieves integrated DevSecOps and a faster, secure SDLC with Checkmarx

Higher Education Managemtnt Software Provider Increases DevSecOps

A global leader in higher education management software, this company powers technology for millions of students, faculty and administrators across thousands of campuses and handles highly sensitive personal data. Facing constant attacks and rapid release cycles, it needed a static application security testing (SAST) solution that could scan many languages, integrate early into the SDLC and DevOps toolchain, run during builds, and deliver accurate, customizable findings to optimize remediation.

They chose Checkmarx and integrated CxSAST via CLI/API into an AWS-based DevSecOps pipeline with Bitbucket, Jenkins, Threadfix and Maven, scheduling pre-build scans, enforcing thresholds at build time, elastically scaling scan engines and providing onboarding documentation. The result was embedded security without slowing releases: accurate, customizable scans and remediation guidance became part of the SDLC, improving protection of clients’ sensitive data while preserving release velocity.