Case Study: Capital One accelerates secure cloud policy management with Styra DAS and OPA

Styra Blends Flexible Integration and Policy-as-Code Framework for Capital One

Capital One, a major financial services company and a leader in digital transformation, sought to drive higher levels of efficiency and compliance from its development teams as it modernized its software delivery with a new internal Kubernetes platform. The challenge, as highlighted by director Jason Burks, was to scale policy-based controls without the heavy maintenance of custom implementations, requiring a centralized control plane for guardrails. They turned to vendor Styra for a solution to this operational challenge.

Styra provided its Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) to operationalize the Open Policy Agent (OPA) at a massive enterprise scale. This solution gave Capital One a unified control plane to manage the entire policy lifecycle, eliminating the need to build policy management from scratch. The outcome empowered developers to write expressive policies efficiently, standardizing best-in-breed technologies to facilitate faster innovation within a secure and highly efficient environment.

Capital One

Jason Burks

Director of Software Engineering