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Kaizen Gaming Enhances Application Security with Contrast Assess
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Event-Driven Application
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Application Security
Applicable Industries
- Equipment & Machinery
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Tamper Detection
- Time Sensitive Networking
Services
- Testing & Certification
- Training
The Challenge
Kaizen Gaming, a leading GameTech company, faced significant challenges in its application security. The company's large development operation, which includes 28 fully staffed Scrum teams, was struggling with late identification of vulnerabilities in the software development life cycle (SDLC). This late detection resulted in remediation work being pushed to the end of the development process, causing extra work and stress. The company's reliance on penetration testing did not provide real-time, holistic observability into Kaizen’s overall application portfolio, leading to blind spots and inefficiencies. The company needed an automated, efficient, and scalable solution that could catch vulnerabilities earlier in the process without slowing down their developers. Additionally, the financial team preferred a pricing model that charges by the application rather than by the developer due to the company's large development team and tight margins.
About The Customer
Kaizen Gaming is a leading GameTech company based in Athens, Greece. The company operates two primary brands, Betano and Stoixman, and supports both casino and sports games. Kaizen games are available in six countries — Brazil, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Portugal, and Romania. The company has a large development operation involved in developing new products and enhancing existing ones. It uses the Agile methodology and currently has 28 fully staffed Scrum teams. The team’s release cycle typically centers around two-week sprints by each Scrum team. In terms of languages, Kaizen primarily uses .NET Core and .NET Framework for application development. The company's information security team is small, but most of the security programs they lead are cross-functional and involve stakeholders from other parts of the organization.
The Solution
Kaizen Gaming chose to implement Contrast Assess, a modern instrumentation approach that uses security instrumentation to do continuous vulnerability scanning from within an application. The scanning happens in the background, eliminating interruptions to the development process and providing continuous feedback to developers when a vulnerability is detected. The Application Security Platform on which Contrast Assess is built provides complete, ongoing security observability for the entire application infrastructure. Kaizen deployed Contrast Assess with Contrast Support Services, which helped to ensure everything was working correctly. The company also uses the native integration with Jira that is built into the Application Security Platform, and is looking to deploy the integration with Slack. In addition to using Assess during the development process, Kaizen’s team uses it with its application in production as well, allowing the tool to perform real-life testing on their application. This has automated the identification of vulnerabilities in their code and made it continuous.
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