Marqeta achieves faster application engineering and stronger security with Lacework
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It took maybe four clicks, and you wait five minutes, and boom, the accounts are recognized and Lacework is now ingesting all cloud trail data. It was mind-blowing.
GARY TSAI, APPLICATION SECURITY ENGINEER, MARQETA
Marqeta, a leader in modern card issuing and payment solutions for businesses, provides tools and a platform for building highly configurable solutions that support both physical and virtual payment cards. With its open API, the Marqeta platform gives businesses a simple way to tailor and manage their own payment card programs to create worldclass experiences and new modes of commerce. Marqeta is growing and uses a cloud-based infrastructure to support its expanding operations and customer base.
Challenges
- Create a faster more agile DevOps process
- Improve process visibility while moving to containerized microservices architecture with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Modernize existing AWS systems while meeting compliance regulations and achieving a high degree of visibility
Solutions
- Improve process visibility while moving to a Amazon EKS containerized microservices architecture
- Total visibility and validation of all containerized instances and activity
Results
- Faster application development and improved security monitoring with no additional AWS expertise
- Security team freed to focus on other issues like endpoint detection and threat hunting