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Case Study: Mambu cuts false-positive alerts by 95% with Sysdig

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
Mambu
Industry
Financial Technology
Challenge
Untrusted security data and noisy alerts across a large multi-cluster fintech platform.
Headline result
Runtime-based prioritization let Mambu trust its security data across 20+ clusters serving 230 million end users

Key results

95%
reduction in false-positive alerts
95%
elimination of recurring vulnerabilities
>50%
lower agent resource consumption
1-2 days
to remediate vulnerabilities
across 20+ clusters

The challenge

Mambu operates a cloud-banking SaaS platform supporting more than 230 million end users across 20+ Kubernetes clusters. The security team had abundant scanning data but could not trust it, making it difficult to know which issues actually mattered at runtime and consuming excessive agent resources.

The solution

Mambu adopted Sysdig to apply runtime context to vulnerability and threat data, prioritizing issues that were actually in use in production. The platform reached production stability within three months and reduced agent resource consumption while surfacing the findings that mattered.

Before Sysdig, we had security data, but we didn't trust it. Now we know which issues actually matter at runtime.

NB
Nemanja Banovic
Senior Engineering Manager, Mambu

The results, in context

Mambu reported a 95% reduction in false-positive alerts and 95% elimination of recurring vulnerabilities, with more than 50% lower agent resource consumption. Vulnerability remediation across its 20+ clusters was completed in 1-2 days.

Products used

Sysdig Sysdig SecureSysdig Sysdig CNAPP