Case Study: BioCatch achieves 1,500% faster response times and rapid elastic scaling with Microsoft Azure

BioCatch Does Amazing Things with Open Source on Microsoft Azure

BioCatch is a Tel Aviv–based cybersecurity firm that uses behavioral biometrics to protect banks and enterprises by analyzing hundreds of human-device interaction signals. Rapid growth — surging from millions to tens of millions of users — exposed limits in its original monolithic, VM-based architecture: slow code changes, high infrastructure costs, and insufficient elastic scale to keep up with fraudsters and customer demand.

To fix this, BioCatch re-architected the platform into microservices and containers on Azure Container Service with open-source DC/OS, moved core algorithms to Python, and adopted continuous delivery and DevOps practices. The result: average response times improved by more than 1,500%, automatic scaling that ramps in about 20 seconds, up to 15 daily deployments, significantly lower costs, and the ability to process far more data and pursue new markets.

BioCatch

Dekel Shavit

Vice President of Operations & CISO