Case Study: Green Flag achieves PCI DSS compliance with Codacy

Green Flag uses Codacy to support PCI DSS compliance across 935 employees

Green Flag, an automotive services company and part of the Direct Line Group, needed to achieve PCI DSS compliance. Their specific challenge was meeting requirement 6.3.2, which mandated a review of all custom code for potential vulnerabilities before release to production. The company needed a centralized static code analysis solution beyond what developers were already using in their IDEs.

Codacy provided the solution by enabling Green Flag to use its API to create filtered dashboards that displayed only security issues per repository. This allowed the security team to easily review vulnerabilities without needing additional licenses. As a result, Codacy serves as a crucial second gatekeeper, ensuring code quality and security compliance are maintained. The tool successfully picks up any issues developers might miss or ignore in their local environments.

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