Case Study: an enterprise education leader scales API security testing with StackHawk

Enterprise Education Leader Scales API Security Testing Across 600+ Repositories

The customer, a leading educational technology company, faced significant challenges in securing its rapidly expanding API landscape across over 600 repositories. Its security team struggled to discover unknown APIs and keep pace with development velocity, creating a bottleneck for remediation. The company chose StackHawk to implement its dynamic application security testing (DAST) platform to address these issues.

StackHawk’s solution utilized its API Discovery feature to automatically map the entire API attack surface, including legacy services. By integrating seamlessly into the company's CI/CD and JIRA workflows, StackHawk empowered development teams to own security testing. The results included reducing API testing runtime to under 15 minutes for numerous microservices and achieving team self-sufficiency, leading to dramatically improved vulnerability visibility and a stronger security posture.