Case Study: Leading Pharmacy Benefits Optimizer achieves expanded security coverage and faster development with StackHawk

Pharmacy Benefits Optimizer Expands Security Coverage While Increasing Development Velocity

Leading Pharmacy Benefits Optimizer, a US-based health tech firm with 800+ employees, faced mounting application security challenges: their AppSec team couldn’t keep pace with rapid development, legacy tools were slow and hard to integrate, and developer remediation was limited—putting sensitive PHI and delivery timelines at risk. To modernize and scale security testing they adopted StackHawk’s automated, developer-friendly shift-left application security solution.

StackHawk was integrated into existing developer workflows to enable proactive, automated scanning and developer-owned remediation. As a result, weekly scans rose from 50–60 to nearly 200, coverage expanded from just a few applications to over 40, and security bottlenecks were reduced as developers took ownership—accelerating secure software release cycles and improving collaboration across teams.