Case Study: Banking & Financial Services Company (Top 10 International Bank) achieves reduced application vulnerabilities and 50% faster pen testing with Contrast Security's Contrast Assess

Weaving Security into the Developer's Mindset and Processes

Banking & Financial Services Company, a top-10 international bank operating across the United States, United Kingdom and Asia with over 4,000 developers, needed a cost-effective, continuous way to find and fix application vulnerabilities earlier in the SDLC as it adopted Agile, DevOps and microservices. Legacy SAST/DAST tools and manual testing were causing release delays, scalability problems and heavy developer overhead, so the bank selected Contrast Security and its Contrast Assess solution to "shift security left" and embed AppSec into development workflows.

Contrast Security implemented Contrast Assess (with centralized visibility via TeamServer) to instrument applications, provide always-on, accurate vulnerability detection and integrate with CI/CD pipelines, enabling developers to fix issues as they code. The deployment cut pen-test time by about 50%, reduced overall AppSec testing costs, increased developer productivity and code quality, accelerated time-to-market, and delivered continuous protection and improved operational processes.