Case Study: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts achieves continuous security validation and faster remediation with Pentera

How Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Continuously Tests Its Security Defenses

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchising company with 9,100 hotels across 95 countries, faced the challenge of continuously validating security controls in a cloud-first AWS environment where dynamic web-facing attack surfaces and inconsistent, time-consuming manual penetration tests made it hard to prioritize remediation and retain talent. To address this, Wyndham adopted Pentera’s Automated Security Validation™ platform to automate real-world TTPs and get consistent, continuous insights into its security posture.

Pentera delivered on-demand, automated penetration testing that safely runs continuously across Wyndham’s environment, quickly uncovering exploitable vectors (for example validating EDR detection of LLMNR cache poisoning and lateral movement), guiding remediation, and replacing months-long manual testing cycles with regular assessments. Pentera’s platform improved cross-team communication and triage, helped prioritize patching and remediation efforts, and provided Wyndham measurable confidence—continuous validation of controls and reduced cyber risk—while enabling clearer reporting to executives.

Wyndham

Joseph Gothelf

Vice Cuber Security Officer