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Global Health Tech Leader Automated API Security and Increased Dev Velocity

When a global healthcare leader’s API ecosystem outgrew manual testing, they needed a faster, smarter way to stay secure. StackHawk helped automate API scanning, increase visibility, and embed security directly into CI/CD — strengthening compliance and scaling protection across thousands of services.

Cut Manual Effort, Boost Speed

Enhanced Visibility

Scalable Security for Microservices

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Use Case

Automating and Scaling API Security

Industry

HealthTech

Employees

+113,000

Location

USA

A global healthcare leader that provides innovative medical devices and healthcare solutions for cardiovascular health, diabetes management, diagnostic testing, nutrition, chronic pain, and more was struggling to manage a complex sprawl of applications and APIs that support everything from diagnostics to patient care platforms. With security requirements constantly evolving and the company’s software infrastructure becoming more microservices-driven, their API security practices needed to follow suit.

The security team faced three core challenges:

  • Manual, time-consuming API scanning in pre-production environments.
  • Limited visibility into their rapidly growing inventory of APIs.
  • Pressure to meet and maintain compliance with standards like ISO 27001 and SOC 2.

They needed a solution that could scale with their environment, fit into modern DevSecOps workflows, and help the team move faster while staying secure.

StackHawk’s ability to scan as many repos as possible is really helpful for prioritizing work on our microservices architecture.
Head of API Web Security

The Problem

Manual API security testing, limited visibility into their growing microservices architecture, and pressure to meet compliance requirements.

The Solution

The company implemented StackHawk to automate API testing within CI/CD, integrate with existing workflows, and gain real-time insights into new or untested endpoints.

The Results

Improved visibility, efficiency, and standardized security practices, enabling proactive vulnerability management and reducing risk.

Choosing a Solution

The team evaluated several API security tools, but StackHawk quickly stood out for its ability to address their most urgent needs.

 

Modern API Support

The company uses a variety of API styles, and StackHawk’s ability to scan OpenAPI, GraphQL, and other formats gave the team coverage they hadn’t had before.

 

Enhanced Visibility

StackHawk automatically surfaces new, changed, or untested endpoints, giving the security team eyes on areas that were previously hidden.

 

Seamless Integration

StackHawk plugged into their existing tools like JIRA and Slack, and integrated directly into their CI/CD pipelines.

 

Shift-left Automation

By embedding scans directly into development workflows, they could catch issues early, long before code hit production.

 

High Signal-to-Noise Ratio

The team valued how StackHawk’s findings were actionable, not noisy. They could spend less time investigating and more time fixing.

Experience with StackHawk

Once StackHawk was up and running, the impact was immediate.

  • Consistent, automated scanning replaced the manual scanning processes that had bogged down the team, saving time and reducing human error.
  • The security team gained confidence in their posture, knowing every deployment was being scanned against modern threats.
  • Authentication handling improved, enabling more secure scans of modern, protected APIs.
  • Developers and security teams are now speaking the same language, thanks to clear, developer-friendly findings and tighter workflow integration.

Most importantly, StackHawk enabled the company to scale security without slowing down engineering velocity. With automated testing embedded in CI/CD, vulnerabilities are caught and addressed early, helping the company stay compliant and competitive as their microservices strategy grows.

StackHawk was a massive improvement to our quality. It has helped us identify vulnerabilities and actually FIX them.
Head of API Web Security

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