Case Study: Affirm reduces manual security triage by 50% with Expel MDR

Affirm Reduces Manual Security Response Efforts by 50% with AWS Partner Expel

Affirm, the payment network focused on flexible and transparent financing, needed to reduce alert fatigue and improve visibility across its distributed AWS environment. Its security team was relying on manual triage, decentralized tooling, and non-centralized logs, which made it difficult to scale security operations efficiently.

Expel provided its managed detection and response service, Expel MDR, to centralize monitoring, automate routine log and alert handling, and integrate with Affirm’s AWS environment and existing workflows. With Expel, Affirm cut manual security triage by 50%, reduced the number of engineers needed to scale operations by 3x, centralized more than 12 AWS accounts, and improved mean time to remediate by 40%.

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Drew Gallis

Staff Security Engineer