Case Study: Photon achieves rapid, pre-build vulnerability detection and faster secure delivery with Checkmarx CxSAST

Photon - Customer Case Study

Photon is a global digital development house with 3,400 engineers that builds software for more than 30% of the Fortune 100. Ajay Kumar, Senior Director of Information Security & Compliance, needed a way to detect vulnerabilities earlier in an agile environment that produces many builds per day. Existing DAST and penetration testing left detection gaps and slowed development, so Photon sought a static analysis solution that could be deployed quickly across multiple languages and teams.

Photon selected Checkmarx CxSAST for its multi-language support, ease of use, low hardware cost and strong references, and implemented it within two weeks. CxSAST scans code pre-build, pinpoints remediation locations to speed fixes, and lets Photon run DAST only after code meets security standards; IDE integration is planned next while teams are being trained, enabling faster, more secure delivery to clients.

Photon

Ajay Kumar

Senior Director of Information Security and Compliance