Autoscaling Production Application Security in Betterment’s CI/CD Pipeline
Autoscaling Production Application Security in Betterment’s CI/CD Pipeline
2 PagesCASE STUDY Autoscaling Production Application Security in Betterment’ s CI/CD Pipeline CHALLENGE Betterment needed a solution to help protect customer PII and financial assets that could automatically scale and block attacks, without requiring ongoing signature tuning or impacting performance. Betterment is an online financial advisor with more than $14 billion in assets under management. To support a user base of over 380,000 customers who access its online platform, the company spins up numerous web servers daily through its continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. Knowing if, when, and how their user accounts might be under attack is key to keeping them secure. Prior to implementing Signal Sciences, Betterment’s Engineering and Security teams’ biggest concer
