Case Study: Global Bank achieves automated open source security and license compliance with Mend

Global Bank Automates Open Source Security and License Compliance Management

Global Bank, a legacy financial institution undergoing rapid digital transformation, depended heavily on open source components to speed app development while being tightly constrained by regulators and customers to protect integrity, confidentiality and availability. Their prior process forced developers to request component approvals from a technology committee, barred direct access to public repositories, relied on manual vulnerability checks and massive Excel inventories, and created a severe bottleneck and audit risk.

The bank selected WhiteSource after PoCs and integrated it with JFrog Artifactory and a File System Agent to provide continuous, policy-based detection, automatic approvals and quarantining of non-compliant components without requiring developer plugins. The solution eliminated false positives, reduced manual reviews, restored developer productivity, delivered instant, accurate inventories for compliance, and freed teams to focus on critical bugs and new features while maintaining strict security governance.