Rakuten Rewards Case Study

How Rakuten Rewards' security team saves hundreds of hours every month with Apiiro.

Case Study

#### **Challenges** - Understanding application risk as early as product design through software development and production systems. - As a security and risk team, it is difficult to ensure effective security across thousands of projects and repositories. People cannot effectively understand risk posture at scale without automation. #### **Solution** - Apiiro helps with collecting, organizing, and continuously tracking all data that is risk-related and can be tied to code. - Apiiro creates a risk-based inventory that is continuously updated so the security team can understand their application security posture at any point, in real-time. - Apiiro not only prioritizes the right risks, but provides a top-down view so Rakuten Rewards can understand their overall application risk and drill-down to the details, as needed. - Apiiro first sheds light on technology with its inventory and then uses context to help make risk-based security decisions. #### **Results** - Apiiro workflows save hundreds of hours every month by automating previously-manual tasks such as prioritizing alerts, investigating risks, and remediating vulnerabilities. - Apiiro enables Rakuten Rewards to leverage context to make risk-based application security decisions, improve its risk posture and Shift Left. - Improves efficiency by continuously correlating and orchestrating code and infrastructure security alerts in one platform. #### **About Rakuten Rewards** Rakuten Rewards was founded in 1998 as eBates and was acquired by Japanese online retailing company Rakuten in 2014. The company provides cash-back and shopping rewards. It has 12 million members who have earned over $1 billion in Cash Back at their favorite stores. > "With Apiiro, our security team is saving hundreds of hours every month." > > **–Cloud Security Architect at Rakuten Rewards**