Case Study: Best Friends Animal Society achieves secure, accelerated AWS Lambda (serverless) deployments with Check Point Software CloudGuard

Best Friends Animal Society Leverages Serverless Architecture to Achieve Long-Term Strategy and Secure Infrastructure

Best Friends Animal Society, the nation’s largest no‑kill animal sanctuary, relied on AWS serverless technologies (including Lambda and a data lake) to scale a dynamic nationwide map and other services. Their traditional security model and overly restrictive permissions slowed development—blocking access to S3 and delaying projects—while they needed to rapidly deploy new features, lower operational costs, and protect donor PII.

They implemented Check Point CloudGuard (Dome9) for Serverless to automate code‑level security, enforce least‑privilege permissions, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines. CloudGuard’s deep‑code analysis and function self‑protection let teams deploy faster with automated monitoring, alerts and blocking of anomalous actions, resulting in increased Lambda adoption, smoother CI/CD workflows, lower risk to sensitive data, and greater operational confidence.

Best Friends Animal Society

Brent Bane

Senior Cloud Architect