Case Study: Global Technology Powerhouse Company achieves secure, developer-driven manufacturing execution systems with SonarSource's SonarQube

Global technology powerhouse secures manufacturing execution systems with SonarQube

Global Technology Powerhouse Company, a major supplier of power generation and transmission, needed to harden its manufacturing execution systems (MES) after a serious malware incident exposed vulnerabilities in code connected to plants, controllers and business applications. Existing penetration tests, blackbox tools and a costly in‑house open‑source aggregator missed issues, lacked language support and usability, so the company selected SonarSource’s SonarQube as a faster, more precise SAST solution.

SonarSource implemented SonarQube with customized Quality Profiles and a tailored Quality Gate and used its REST API to integrate checks into Microsoft TFS, Azure DevOps dashboards and MS Teams. The static analysis runs in about 20 minutes (about 18× faster than alternatives), and after four years 600 developers across three continents use SonarQube daily to review pull requests for 100+ applications; builds now break on Quality Gate failures and teams track Code Quality & Security scores in standups, preventing vulnerabilities from reaching production.