Industry: Cryptocurrency
Mintable is a digital marketplace enabling you to create, buy, and sell digital items using various blockchains. These digital items are universally referred to as NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens. NFTs are secured by the blockchain, and they live on the blockchain itself.
Challenge
As an online NFT platform, Security and compliance are major considerations for Mintable. Due to rapid growth and accelerated cloud adoption, Mintable required a security approach to easily identify and prioritize the 1% of real risks in their cloud environments. Mintable’s focus on continuous innovation required a security partner that would empower the engineering teams to continue to innovate without the distraction of non-relevant misconfigurations, all while ensuring continuous risk reduction across their cloud environments.
Solution
Mintable’s CTO, Cesare Tagliaferri, describes working with Plerion as truly transformative for them. “Working with the Plerion team has been smooth and effective since we started our engagement. We have regular check-ins, and the team has guided us in gradually utilizing the platform to its full potential, advising us on how to enhance the security of our accounts.”
“Plerion gave Mintable the much-needed analysis of our AWS environments through a single pane of glass. This made understanding our overall risk posture easier and halved the time the engineering teams spent addressing the risk.”
Cesare describes the value Mintable received from the Plerion Platform “The unique aspect of the Plerion platform is that it not only identifies isolated issues, but also detects potential exposures arising from chains of misconfigured items. Each item might appear secure on its own, but in combination, they could potentially lead to risks or leaks.”
“With Plerion, I have the confidence of not needing to constantly check our production accounts, knowing that the same high level of scrutiny and continuous monitoring is applied to our less critical accounts as well.”
Key benefits
Prioritise Risk Posture - Plerion provides Mintable with the visibility it needs to efficiently prioritize and understand the overall risk posture of its cloude state. Plerion ensures all new applications being developed by Mintable are built with security at the forefront of all development.
Attack path analysis - Using graph technology to map associations between Mintable’s cloud assets, Plerion effectively maps out any attack paths that lead to data exposure—something that Mintable understood was required for their continued growth and success.
Results
Security Operations - Mintable significantly improved its triaging and response to cloud security threats, with an overall reduction in alert fatigue experienced by engineers. This also resulted in faster response times to issues, since the team now can rely on a daily scan and not a periodic manual review of the environments. Plerion enabled the identification and prioritization of critical security risks, allowing the team to respond to potential threats and proactively address security issues before they escalated.
Risk Reduction
With the Plerion Platform, Mintable dramatically reduced the attack surface and risk threat by 30% by focusing on the discovery and remediation of publicly accessible vulnerable workloads. Along with the work the team completed to mitigate workload risk, they were also able to further secure their cloud environment by addressing the number of administrative accounts and access policies attached to workloads.
Overall, the security team is highly engaged and moving towards an offensive position versus being reactive.
Find out more
Plerion is a cloud security platform providing organizations with a clear picture of what they actually need to do now to improve their overall cloud security posture. With a focus on prioritization, Plerion uses the context of your entire environment to assess and score risk as the asset level - so teams can view potential attack paths, quickly identify mission-critical issues, and figure out what they actually need to do next. Plerion helps teams focus on the 1% of risks that matter. Book a demo today to learn more.