Case Studies
Company Profile
Photosynth inc.
Photosynth inc. is a pioneering IoT security vendor that develops and provides "Akerun," the world's first, cloud-based retrofit smart lock. With its mission "To embed impressive experiences into the future through connected manufacturing," the company is driving its business forward to create a keyless society, where the company liberates people from the constraints and inconveniences around “traditional” physical keys through providing smart locks.
Security Challenges
As the business and user base expanded, the company saw an increase of services and resources provisioned within the AWS environment, a cloud infrastructure of Akerun services. Given that their solution provides and manages "(digital) keys," an important security infrastructure of their customers, it became crucial for the company to ensure quality of services and strengthen security measures for the expanding service infrastructure. In the process of enhancing security, the company faced significant challenges including resource constraints and increased workload, and it realized that it was difficult to monitor and address daily security events and alerts alongside core business operations.
Reasons for
CloudFastener Introduction
With these challenges, Photosynth considered implementing security measures from the present into the future and adopted CloudFastener. Reasons for the adoption are as follows:
- Reassurance from having a dedicated team assigned for security operations, rather than just tool provision
- Flexibility to customize which items to keep in-house and which to outsource
- Appropriate and in-depth operational knowledge of various security services
Values of CloudFastener
By utilizing CloudFastener, the company has eliminated its burden to monitor security alerts and logs reported from deploying security services as CloudFastener handles time-consuming triage and investigation responses. As a result, the company is able to focus more on its core business operations to increase the value of Akerun services.
Photosynth expects CSC to continue driving service quality enhancement, enabling customers to use safer AWS cloud services and infrastructure.
Company Profile
A Inc.
A Inc. is a service provider that develops and offers the live streaming service "Fuwatchi." Without requiring any special devices or equipment, many customers can realize live streaming through A Inc.'s service, reaching a broad audience.
Security Challenges
There were no dedicated security personnel, and security alerts were handled alongside development tasks. Catching up on cloud security concepts and best practices required additional effort. As the service expanded, the need for safer service delivery became paramount, and there was a sense of uncertainty about where to start and the necessary level of security measures. At this point, CloudFastener was introduced.
Reasons for CloudFastener Introduction
- They not only provide standard responses but also offer consulting services aimed at improving security levels
- The reassurance that comes from being able to entrust daily operations to CloudFastener
- The ability to accumulate security knowledge while using the service, contributing to organizational development and culture
Values of CloudFastener
First and foremost, CloudFastener visualized our current risks in AWS and clarified the roadmap for countermeasures and enhancements, which made it clear what resources we needed to prepare internally. Furthermore, they provide concrete proposals for improving our security levels. This not only allows us to outsource daily operations but also enables us to accumulate information within our company. As a result, we feel this is contributing to raising security awareness among our internal engineers.
