Case Study: Simple achieves unified, scalable cloud security visibility with Threat Stack

Simple - Customer Case Study

Simple Finance Technology Company (Simple) is reinventing online banking with modern web and mobile experiences but faced a challenge: its immutable, AWS-based infrastructure (Ubuntu EC2 hosts, Chef-managed) produced disparate OS, application and IDS logs that weren’t being consolidated for security or operational use. To simplify cloud security and gain continuous, scalable visibility, Simple selected Threat Stack’s AWS-native host monitoring solution and agent.

Threat Stack’s agent deployed in minutes and, via Simple’s Chef recipes, was running across 500+ EC2 instances within a week. That deployment consolidated event data, exposed previously unseen privileged-user activity and risky processes (such as potential unauthorized file copying), and eliminated manual file-integrity and jump-box workflows—giving Simple continuous coverage, fewer monitoring sources, faster detection, and a scalable security baseline for growth.

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Dave Dyk

Director of Information Security