Shinola Enhances Security Visibility with Signal Sciences for Rapid Retail DevOps

• Cybersecurity & Privacy - Application Security

• E-Commerce
• Retail

• Product Research & Development
• Quality Assurance

• Supply Chain Visibility
• Tamper Detection

• Testing & Certification

Shinola, a company dedicated to producing high-quality, American-built products, operates an e-commerce website with high-volume traffic periods during peak sales seasons. They wanted to increase security awareness of attacks and anomalies at the application layer. The company needed a web application security technology that would increase visibility without disrupting the rapid deployment models required to stay ahead in the fast-paced retail market. They required improvement in their security posture while democratizing the shared responsibility of security across the enterprise. Shinola’s DevOps team desired proactive distribution of security data to enhance their overall security operation. They needed a web application security technology that could cut down on inefficiencies while ensuring security across all of their applications.

Shinola is a company dedicated to producing high-quality, American-built products, including watches, bicycles, leather goods, and journals. They operate an e-commerce website with high-volume traffic periods during peak sales seasons. E-commerce is a major component of their business, and they required improvement in their security posture while democratizing the shared responsibility of security across the enterprise. Shinola’s DevOps team desired proactive distribution of security data to enhance their overall security operation.

Shinola asked Signal Sciences to embed security into their development process. They wanted to increase visibility across their web applications, from testing to production. Signal Sciences worked with their infrastructure and empowered them to improve their application security posture without additional overhead. Shinola needed a security partner that would integrate into their DevOps workflow, not disrupt it. Signal Sciences seamlessly integrated into Shinola’s development organization via a cloud-agnostic architecture and extensive integrations into automation tools. This enabled Shinola’s development team to continue to build software rapidly, regardless of their infrastructure and cloud strategy. Signal Sciences helps inform better security decisions across the organization. Whenever there’s security activity—including increased attacks or anomalies— Shinola’s DevOps team can easily share Signal Sciences Console and “Week In Review” security reports with the engineering organization and executive team. Signal Sciences gave Shinola’s development team instant visibility and actionable information. They’re now able to detect and block potential attacks and fraudulent logins with Power Rules.

• With the implementation of Signal Sciences' solution, Shinola's development team gained instant visibility and actionable information. They are now able to detect and block potential attacks and fraudulent logins with Power Rules. The solution brought security and visibility to their workflow, without disrupting their development cycle. The team can now easily share Signal Sciences Console and “Week In Review” security reports with the engineering organization and executive team whenever there’s security activity, including increased attacks or anomalies. This has helped inform better security decisions across the organization.