Case Study: Colgate-Palmolive boosts developer security skills and secure coding culture with Secure Code Warrior

Colgate-Palmolive expands security maturity with Secure Code Warrior and developer-gated pull requests

Colgate-Palmolive Company, a major consumer products brand, faced the challenge of securing its digital transformation and protecting customer data by securing the root source of potential breaches: its application code. The company's CISO aimed to increase security in the software development lifecycle while streamlining its implementation for developers. To address this, they partnered with vendor Secure Code Warrior.

Secure Code Warrior provided an agile, in-context approach to secure code learning, breaking training into manageable chunks integrated into the developer workflow. Colgate-Palmolive implemented a solution gating its GitHub repository via an Okta workflow, allowing only developers who passed specific Secure Code Warrior assessments to make pull requests. This resulted in a much stronger relationship between security and development teams and the successful scaling of their security maturity program.

Colgate-Palmolive Company