The challenge
A leading life insurer holds highly sensitive policyholder data and operates under strict insurance-sector regulation. Its applications and infrastructure needed ongoing assessment, and security checks were too often arriving late in the delivery cycle, as a gate before release rather than a part of how software was built.
Our solution
Our security lead was embedded with the client’s technology teams to run security as a continuous practice rather than a periodic audit.
- Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT) oversight across applications and infrastructure
- Risk assessments to identify and prioritise security threats before they became incidents
- Security policies and procedures designed around industry standards and insurance regulatory expectations
- Security controls embedded throughout the software development lifecycle, working alongside engineering teams
- Secure code review and CI/CD security gates so issues are caught early in the pipeline
- End-to-end incident response leadership, from containment to coordinated remediation
- A company-wide security awareness programme for non-technical staff
Results and impact
- Security incidents reduced by 30% through proactive risk management and the awareness programme
- Stronger regulatory compliance posture for policyholder data
- Security shifted from a late-stage checkpoint to a shared engineering responsibility