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ClearBank, the UK’s first new clearing bank in over 250 years, needed to manage a growing volume of vulnerabilities across an expanding digital landscape — without doubling its security team. Facing high complexity from multiple pipelines and legacy integration, the bank partnered with Phoenix Security to simplify and scale its AppSec efforts.
ClearBank Scaling needed a partner that helped the security team optimize the number of vulnerabilities presented to engineering and provide a single unified backlog for both security and engineering.
With contextual prioritization, ClearBank concentrated on vulnerabilities posing the highest risk to its “crown jewel” applications and infrastructure.
Deduplication and noise reduction features streamlined workflows, saving time and enhancing productivity.
Automated processes allowed the team to scale without increasing resources, focusing on strategic tasks instead of repetitive data management.
Unified insights into application and cloud security risks provided a comprehensive security posture view.
Tailored reporting and SLA-driven insights fostered cross-team alignment, improving overall security operations. The ability to track campaign and remediation activities enabled ClearBank to focus on remediating the vulnerabilities that matter most.
ClearBank could write exceptions at scale, removing noisy vulnerabilities and attributing what’s most important to the right teams.
ClearBank was able to focus the attention on the most active container, removing up to 90% of noise from older container versions.
ClearBank was to automate the configuration of phoenix leveraging pipeline tags and programmatically updated team’s configuration ensuring the mapping team to application and deployment tracking was up-to-date.
Neil Reed, Principal Security Engineer at ClearBank, highlights Phoenix Security’s adaptability and customer-focused approach:
“Phoenix Security doesn’t just offer a tool; they partner with us to enhance our security operations. Their ability to unify findings, reduce noise, and prioritize risks has been a game-changer for ClearBank. The platform aligns perfectly with our needs and regulatory demands, and their team is always ready to implement features that address our unique challenges.”
Integrated findings from application security tools (SAST, DAST) and cloud environments to build relationships between vulnerabilities and critical business assets. Dynamically adjusted risk scores using ClearBank’s custom tagging for assets moving between environments (e.g. Public to DMZ).
Consolidated overlapping findings, eliminating redundant entries and focusing attention on unique, relevant risks. Reduced operational noise, allowing teams to concentrate on high-priority vulnerabilities.
Filtered out vulnerabilities tied to deprecated or temporary assets, such as outdated containers or ephemeral test environments.
Enabled ClearBank to define clear statuses for vulnerabilities, including backlog items, ensuring all issues were visible and tracked systematically.
Provided customizable reporting tools to generate targeted insights for stakeholders. Supported SLA tracking, enabling teams to address vulnerabilities exceeding thresholds promptly.
Phoenix Security’s innovative approach not only met ClearBank’s needs but also positioned them to manage future challenges confidently. This partnership exemplifies how technology can empower organizations in highly regulated sectors to stay ahead in cybersecurity. By adopting Phoenix Security, ClearBank achieved:
Achieve a single view on vulnerabilities that are contextualized and prioritized.
Smarter risk, intelligence, automation reduces cost and improves efficiency
Liberate security to be even more productive.
A leading enterprise leveraged CISO View to gain real-time insights into their security landscape, enabling proactive risk management. By integrating container security and native security tools, the organization streamlined threat detection and compliance monitoring across cloud and on-prem environments. This enhanced visibility allowed the CISO to make data-driven decisions, reducing vulnerabilities and improving overall security resilience.
By integrating Phoenix Security into Backstage, a leading developer portal, the organization unified visibility into application security across all teams. Developers could now access vulnerability insights, remediation actions, and risk scores directly within their daily workflows. This seamless integration reduced context switching, improved developer efficiency, and accelerated secure development practices.
A global tech company implemented a scalable Security Champion program to embed security ownership across development teams. By training champions and integrating security into daily workflows, the organization fostered a proactive security culture. This approach significantly improved vulnerability response times and strengthened collaboration between engineering and security at scale.
Comprehensive coverage and real-time threat detection. It helps manage compliance requirements and can integrate with other tools especially feeding SIEM. Certain tasks such as vulnerability scanning and patch management can be automated through scheduling. Depending on use case its checks on ACT risks and API deploy are valuable to check for errors or patterns.
Reviewer: Global Compliance Program Manager
Industry: IT Services
Deployment Architecture: Cloud (SaaS or PaaS or IaaS)
It has a simple and intuitive UI. Excellent, user-friendly interface with lots of customization options makes it fruitful to use and helps achieve our specific security requirements easily.
Reviewer: Global Compliance Program Manager
Industry: IT Services
Deployment Architecture: Cloud (SaaS or PaaS or IaaS)
The product is easy to use It has a lot of functionality, which is also easy to navigate between The functionality within the platform is powerful and connects up to give a platform that can improve risk management at every level.
Reviewer: Global Compliance Program Manager
Industry: IT Services
Deployment Architecture: Cloud (SaaS or PaaS or IaaS)
The Phoenix team is quick to respond and always willing to help. They have implemented custom features and listened to our feedback. The product is progressing so quickly for a startup and I love having input into what we need next. What makes them unique is that they have done our job so understand the pain AppSecOPS teams go through.
Reviewer: Principal Security Engineer
Industry: Banking
Deployment Architecture: Cloud (SaaS or PaaS or IaaS)
Comprehensive coverage and real-time threat detection. It helps manage compliance requirements and can integrate with other tools especially feeding SIEM. Certain tasks such as vulnerability scanning and patch management can be automated through scheduling. Depending on use case its checks on ACT risks and API deploy are valuable to check for errors or patterns.
Reviewer: Global Compliance Program Manager
Industry: IT Services
Deployment Architecture: Cloud (SaaS or PaaS or IaaS)
The product is easy to use It has a lot of functionality, which is also easy to navigate between The functionality within the platform is powerful and connects up to give a platform that can improve risk management at every level.
Reviewer: Global Compliance Program Manager
Industry: IT Services
Deployment Architecture: Cloud (SaaS or PaaS or IaaS)
Derek Fisher – Head of product security at a global fintech. Speaker, instructor, and author in application security.
Derek is an award winning author of a children’s book series in cybersecurity as well as the author of “The Application Security Handbook.” He is a university instructor at Temple University where he teaches software development security to undergraduate and graduate students. He is a speaker on topics in the cybersecurity space and has led teams, large and small, at organizations in the healthcare and financial industries. He has built and matured information security teams as well as implemented organizational information security strategies to reduce the organizations risk.
Derek got his start in the hardware engineering space where he learned about designing circuits and building assemblies for commercial and military applications. He later pursued a computer science degree in order to advance a career in software development. This is where Derek was introduced to cybersecurity and soon caught the bug. He found a mentor to help him grow in cybersecurity and then pursued a graduate degree in the subject.
Since then Derek has worked in the product security space as an architect and leader. He has led teams to deliver more secure software in organizations from multiple industries. His focus has been to raise the security awareness of the engineering organization while maintaining a practice of secure code development, delivery, and operations.
In his role, Jeevan handles a range of tasks, from architecting security solutions to collaborating with Engineering Leadership to address security vulnerabilities at scale and embed security into the fabric of the organization.
Jeevan Singh is the Director of Security Engineering at Rippling, with a background spanning various Engineering and Security leadership roles over the course of his career. He’s dedicated to the integration of security practices into software development, working to create a security-aware culture within organizations and imparting security best practices to the team.
In his role, Jeevan handles a range of tasks, from architecting security solutions to collaborating with Engineering Leadership to address security vulnerabilities at scale and embed security into the fabric of the organization.
James Berthoty has over ten years of experience across product and security domains. He founded Latio Tech to help companies find the right security tools for their needs without vendor bias.
Chris Romeo is a leading voice and thinker in application security, threat modeling, and security champions and the CEO of Devici and General Partner at Kerr Ventures. Chris hosts the award-winning “Application Security Podcast,” “The Security Table,” and “The Threat Modeling Podcast” and is a highly rated industry speaker and trainer, featured at the RSA Conference, the AppSec Village @ DefCon, OWASP Global AppSec, ISC2 Security Congress, InfoSec World and All Day DevOps. Chris founded Security Journey, a security education company, leading to an exit in 2022. Chris was the Chief Security Advocate at Cisco, spreading security knowledge through education and champion programs. Chris has twenty-six years of security experience, holding positions across the gamut, including application security, security engineering, incident response, and various Executive roles. Chris holds the CISSP and CSSLP certifications.
Jim Manico is the founder of Manicode Security, where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. Jim is also the founder of Brakeman Security, Inc. and an investor/advisor for Signal Sciences. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications (McGraw-Hill), a frequent speaker on secure software practices, and a member of the JavaOne Rockstar speaker community. Jim is also a volunteer for and former board member of the OWASP foundation.
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