Case Study: Leading Multinational Financial Corporation modernizes application security training and reduces costs with Synopsys

Leading Multinational Financial Corporation - Customer Case Study

A large multinational financial corporation with a globally dispersed development community found its application security lagging behind industry peers after a BSIMM assessment. Traditional instructor-led training (ILT) was too costly to scale and one-size-fits-all, while a prior eLearning rollout suffered poor adoption and stale content, leaving developers dependent on ad hoc sources and increasing vulnerability risk.

Cigital partnered with the firm to combine targeted, modular SCORM eLearning, virtual ILT, and just-in-time developer tooling (SecureAssist), and to build social learning through Communities of Practice, Security Champions, and Centers of Excellence—plus executive briefings. By using assessment data to focus interventions, gamifying compliance, and delivering role-specific training, the program reduced defect density, improved security maturity across teams, lowered ongoing training costs, and helped embed security learning into the organization’s culture.