Enterprise clients
Over six months we ran application security reviews for enterprise clients in fintech, telecom, pharmaceuticals and automotive. Each review used the six Well-Architected pillars.
The facts
The result
40% fewer vulnerabilitiesFewer security vulnerabilities in banking, after the recommendations
Banking clients
What each review covered
- Operational excellence: covered
- Security: covered
- Reliability: covered
- Performance efficiency: covered
- Cost optimization: covered
- Sustainability: covered
The challenge
- Fear of breaches where best practice was missing.
- Access gaps: unauthorized email addresses, and no single sign-on or credential policy.
- Monitoring tools in some estates and none in others.
What we did
- Reviewed each estate against the six Well-Architected pillars.
- Split clients into those with monitoring tools and those without.
- Recommended access control best practice and removal of unauthorized access points.
- Recommended monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch for infrastructure management.
What came of it
- BankingSecurity vulnerabilities fell by 40% across several banking clients.
- HealthcareRecommendations cut cost by 17% at the same performance.
- All sectorsSystem performance improved by 30% overall.
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