Case Study: EU-based bulge‑bracket bank (Financial Services Company) achieves a secure, policy‑enforced codebase and CI/CD protection with Check Point Software's CloudGuard

Enhancing Code Security at an EU-Based Bulge Bracket Bank

A global EU-based bulge bracket bank with 10,000+ employees struggled to manage a vast, distributed codebase across siloed development teams. The firm needed to eliminate hard-coded secrets, gain visibility into security risks in legacy and active code, prevent secrets from entering git history, and enforce organization-wide policies without the overhead caused by its previous code security tool.

The bank implemented Check Point CloudGuard Code Security, embedding fast, pre-commit scans and pre-receive hook integrations for Bitbucket and GitLab to detect secrets, vulnerable dependencies, IaC misconfigurations and compliance violations before code reached repositories or production. The solution delivered organization-wide visibility, automated policy enforcement and compliance checks, reduced remediation time in production, streamlined CI/CD with secure builds, and fostered a security-first development culture while lowering regulatory risk.