Case Study: Large Retail and E-commerce Company achieves continuous, real-time application security and faster releases with Contrast Security

Transforming an Application Security Vision Into a Reality At a Large Retail and E-commerce Company

Large Retail and E-commerce Company — a global retailer with more than 25,000 employees and billions in revenue protecting six major brands — moved to three-week agile release cycles and found legacy SAST/DAST tools became a bottleneck. Reports took up to 24 hours, produced false positives, and forced the small AppSec team into the critical path of every deployment. Seeking automated, in‑line security, the company evaluated and selected Contrast Security and its Contrast Assess agent to integrate security directly into the SDLC.

Contrast Security deployed Contrast Assess with a lightweight agent that provides continuous, real‑time vulnerability detection, contextual how‑to‑fix guidance, and organization‑level metrics. The solution eliminated the separate, time‑consuming scanning step and the weeks of delay it caused, enabled developers to fix issues as they appear, and removed the AppSec team as a release bottleneck. As a result, the company achieved faster, more predictable releases, clearer remediation guidance for engineers, and improved protection for its customers and brands.