InfoTrax Systems

The Challenge

InfoTrax Systems, the industry-leading provider of commissions software and distributor tools for Direct Sales companies, needed to build more flexibility into their application stack. With approximately 50 employees, the company needed a more efficient way to build, test, and deploy changes. Since their existing virtual machine infrastructure could not meet these requirements, they adopted Kubernetes.

However, they quickly discovered that their legacy vulnerability management tools lacked visibility into their containerized environment. As Davis Vail, Security Operations Engineer at Infotrax Systems explains:

“Containerized environments presented old challenges in a new way. We had plenty of experience with virtual machine environments but many methodologies did not translate directly to containers.”

The Solution

InfoTrax implemented ARMO Platform, which dramatically increased security visibility across their Kubernetes environment and containerized applications. ARMO’s solution presents information in an understandable way that developers, operations, and security personnel can all grasp and discuss.

The initial goal was primarily better vulnerability management. However, ARMO’s additional features helped increase SOC readiness by 40%, make system hardening improvements, and ensure the system remained compliant with industry security standards.

How It Works

ARMO Platform provides comprehensive scanning and security capabilities:

• Runtime reachability-based vulnerability management with built-in filters to quickly identify packages in use, available updates, exploits in the wild, and severity levels
• Cloud Compliance features that map controls from common industry frameworks to InfoTrax’s system
• Workflow automation enables prioritization of alerts and auto-generation of tickets, replacing frequent manual dashboard checks
• Cloud security visibility enabling effective communication among developers, operations, and security teams

Real-World Impact

InfoTrax achieved significant improvements in their security posture:

• Increased SOC compliance score by ~40%
• Streamlined the vulnerability management workflow
• Enabled rapid response to evolving threats through immediate alerts for critical issues
• Reduced time required to resolve newly identified vulnerabilities

Seamless Onboarding and Immediate Impact

Implementation was simple. The solution was up and running within minutes of installing the Helm chart in Infotrax’s clusters.

ARMO Platform is in constant use by multiple stakeholders in the organization.

• Developers rely on it to quickly check if their recent changes have resolved expected issues.
• Security teams use it to prioritize remediation efforts.