Case Study: Automating Code Security and Reducing Manual Effort with Flyingduck

The Challenge:

End clients often ask for security as part of the application deliverables. The company’s IT team was spending an excessive amount of time manually reviewing code for security issues or spending heavily outsourcing this work to external vendors. They were performing these reviews after the entire application is developed and this is adding more work to the developers to fix identified security issues. They needed a solution that could automate code security reviews without adding to the developers’ workload.

The Solution: Flyingduck

They integrated Flyingduck into its CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and VCS (GitHub), automating key security tasks such as:

Automated SBOM and SCA:

Flyingduck with its Commit Analysis feature, continuously scanned for Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and all OSS components for vulnerabilities, without requiring manual intervention.

Automated Code Scans (SAST):

Flyingduck also performed static code analysis, flagging security issues in real-time as code was committed, eliminating the need for manual reviews.

Integrated Seamlessly into Pipelines:

By integrating into their Jenkins pipelines, Flyingduck automatically initiated scans with every commit, ensuring security checks happened consistently without additional effort from the developers.

The Results:

75% Reduction in Manual Security Tasks:

Flyingduck’s automation replaced manual code reviews and vulnerability checks, freeing up developers and IT team for more productive work.

Faster Development Cycles:

Automated scans speed up the development process by ensuring that security issues were identified and addressed early.

Increased Security Confidence:

With automated security checks at every stage, the development team was more confident in the security of the code they were pushing into production.

Flyingduck’s automation helped the client streamline their development process, reduce manual effort, and improve overall security.