Case Study: a cryptotrading platform prevents credential exposure with Sysdig

Cryptotrading Platform detects exposed credentials in 15 minutes with Sysdig

The customer, a cryptotrading platform, faced challenges gaining real-time visibility into its containerized runtime environment on Amazon EKS. Despite having strong shift-left security practices, its point-in-time scans were missing risky internal processes and credential exposures that only appeared after deployment, creating potential blind spots. To address this, the platform turned to Sysdig Secure for runtime threat detection.

Sysdig provided the solution with its out-of-the-box runtime policies, which immediately detected a credential exposure from an internal automation job without requiring custom rules. This enabled the security team to respond and mitigate the issue within 15 minutes, preventing a potential breach. As a result, the company accelerated its remediation processes, shifted to prioritizing active runtime vulnerabilities over theoretical risks, and automated its compliance reporting.