Customer Stories
How companies are standardizing application authorization to move faster and build safer.
Top 10 U.S. bank
Tailored security for millions of customer-managed identities
Challenge
Siloed, homegrown entitlement systems coupled with an inflexible vendor solution slowed down the developers and the business. Developers wasted time on fragmented processes to add functionalities and entitlements.
With hundreds of teams making applications used by millions of customer-managed identities, the bank needed a modern authorization standard to provide tailored security at scale.
Solution
Standardized entitlements implementation using the Enterprise OPA Platform across microfrontends and microservices.
Benefits
- Fast entitlements development to meet changing customer needs and support new features.
- Productivity increase and risk reduction from the systematic reuse of common authorization logic.
E-commerce platform powering $15 billion in sales
Saving 3,000 engineering hours a week
Challenge
Fragmented, homegrown authorization systems taxed engineering resources and slowed the business. Teams duplicated effort operating critical authorization infrastructure (PIP) in silos. Developers wasted time building on disparate models.
With 200 teams developing 3000 applications across its merchants, payments, and logistics businesses, the organization needed a scalable authorization standard to power continuing growth.
Solution
- Unified authorization infrastructure silos using the Enterprise OPA Platform.
- Standardized and automated authorization integration for developers.
Benefits
- Streamline application onboarding from 3 weeks to 3 days.
- Projected to save 3,000 engineering hours a week.
European banking platform
5X faster Zero Trust implementation
Challenge
Disparate, homegrown authorization implementations slowed down developers and challenged compliance. Developers spent extra time maintaining fragmented integrations. Authorization logic nested in application code was difficult to understand.
With hundreds of teams providing 3000 API endpoints to customer banks, the organization needed a modern authorization standard to speed up feature delivery with proven compliance.
Solution
- Standardized authorization implementation across 130 teams using the Enterprise OPA Platform.
- Decoupled authorization from business logic using policy as code standard.
Benefits
- 5X faster Zero Trust authorization implementation for new applications and APIs
- Reduced compliance risk related to DORA, NIS 2, and customer requirements.
- Eliminated hundreds of code changes previously required to maintain the fragmented authorization implementations.
U.S. insurer with over 50,000 employees
Transparent authorization integration
Challenge
Hundreds of microservices used nested authorization code that caused unnecessary developer friction. Evolving the business logic risked breaking authorization. Updating authorization risked breaking the business logic.
Processing billions of requests a month, the insurer needed an authorization standard to streamline development without compromising latency.
Solution
Standardized authorization across 300 microservices using the Enterprise OPA Platform with the Envoy sidecar deployment.
Benefits
- Automated authorization integration that is transparent to application developers.
- Fast updates to authorization logic using one policy as code standard.
- Quick authorization decisions on billions of requests a month.
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