Case Study: Pathful cuts total security issues by 60% in two weeks after moving to Aikido
Key results
The challenge
Pathful, a U.S. career-readiness platform protecting data on over 4 million students and 40,000 volunteers, faced overwhelming noise from its existing security tools, including pentests and Snyk. The tooling did not integrate well into developer workflows, interfaces were not intuitive, and it was hard to prioritize which vulnerabilities actually mattered.
The solution
Pathful migrated to Aikido, which shows how a vulnerability entered the codebase, provides AI-powered changelog summaries to judge whether an upgrade is safe, and prioritizes findings so teams are not spammed with unactionable alerts. Aikido fits into Pathful's lower environments and supports compliance needs such as DAST and continuous scanning.
“We've seen a 60% reduction in total issues over the past two weeks. That's a big deal.”
MAMatthew AlversonVP of Engineering, Pathful
The results, in context
Pathful reported a 60% reduction in total issues over the two weeks after adopting Aikido, alongside faster remediation and simpler compliance reporting. AI changelog analysis cut hours of manual review, and trend-over-time reports let engineering leadership track risk and remediation week to week.