Given the accelerated proliferation of security issues and cyber threats, Pivvot was in search of a solution that could help ensure security for its customers’ data assets, while at the same time empowering the company to engage in ongoing and rapid innovation to deliver the solutions its customers need. Security is paramount— particularly within Pivvot’s fast-paced and customer-centric DevOps environment. To meet ever-changing customer requirements, Pivvot must be able to go from build to deploy very quickly, with the confidence that its solutions will be secure when released to production.

Because software in Pivvot’s DevOps environment is delivered continuously, security cannot be left to a standalone effort—it must be built in from the start—and automation is key. Pivvot needed a flexible, scalable, integrated security solution that could ensure that data assets remained secure throughout the product development life cycle while enabling fast and simple development processes.

Trend Micro has a long-standing history of developing security solutions for infrastructure engineering software providers like Pivvot, and an ongoing relationship with Pivvot’s Senior Director of Technology, Jason Cradit.  “Our work with Trend Micro is about protecting what’s right here right now, while we build,” says Cradit. “There’s never been something we’ve taken to Trend Micro that they couldn’t do.”

Not only that, Trend Micro aligns its billing mechanisms with implementation practices through AWS Marketplace to offer the elasticity and scalability needed to respond to changing conditions. Cradit considers this to be a considerable competitive advantage.

Pivvot chose Trend Cloud One - Workload Security to help meet its objectives of ensuring security throughout the development life cycle while enabling quick solution deployment. “By embedding security into the development process, rather than implementing it as a standalone activity, Trend Cloud One - Workload Security enables Pivvot to develop new cloud-native applications that meet compliance requirements and customer demands right from the start―at first build―and throughout the life of the product,” says Cradit.

Workload Security allows Pivvot to operationalize new products quickly and easily with built-in security by taking advantage of its automation capabilities. It also provides the elasticity needed to align secure product build efforts with changing business conditions.

For continuous and secure application development, container image, and registry scanning provided by Deep Security Smart Check—which Cradit regards as a powerful solution for the company—supports Pivvot’s migration of its APIs to a container architecture. “The Smart Check dashboard provides Pivvot with the visibility to detect malware, secrets and keys, compliance violations, custom rules, and known or unexpected vulnerabilities earlier in the build pipeline,” reinforces Cradit.