Security Upskilling Case Study

Vandebron

Vandebron is an energy company focusing on providing sustainable energy solutions. It provides an online marketplace for sustainable energy connecting consumers directly with local, independent renewable energy producers without the intervention of an old-fashioned energy company.

Industry Energy

Protecting containerized workloads and cloud environments

The Challenge

Vandebron has been adopting cloud-native technologies, particularly Kubernetes, to support Vandebron’s growing infrastructure and applications. As the company scaled, they realized they needed a specialized security solution to protect their containerized workloads and cloud environments.

The Solution

Vandebron chose ARMO Platform for its comprehensive approach to Cloud & Kubernetes security. ARMO provides security visibility, vulnerability management, and compliance capabilities specifically designed for Kubernetes environments. Also, its open-source foundation – Kubescape – was appealing to the team.

Vandebron’s main goals were to achieve improved security posture, reduced vulnerability risk, enhanced compliance, and increased efficiency in managing Cloud & Kubernetes security. They aimed to have better visibility into their clusters and automate security processes as much as possible.

How It Works

ARMO Platform provides comprehensive cloud posture and runtime security capabilities:

Comprehensive cloud security posture and visibility
Runtime reachability-based vulnerability management to prioritize relevant, reachable and exploitable vulnerabilities
Cloud Compliance that leverage controls from common industry frameworks and advanced reporting features
Seamless integration to 3rd party systems including alerting systems (slack) and existing workflows
Workflow automation enables prioritization of alerts and auto-generation of tickets, replacing frequent manual dashboard checks

Real-World Impact

Vandebron achieved significant improvements in their security posture:

Improved visibility into Vandebron Kubernetes and containerized environments.
Significant reduction in the number of vulnerabilities in our Kubernetes clusters and cloud workloads by focusing on the vulnerabilities that actually matter
Streamlined Vandebron compliance efforts.
Improved Vandebron overall security posture and compliance score
Reduced the risk of security incidents.

Seamless Onboarding and Immediate Impact

Implementation and onboarding was fast and simple. Getting started with the ARMO Platform was relatively straightforward. The documentation was clear, and the support team is very helpful. The integration with Vandebron existing tools and workflows was also smooth.

90% decrease in number of vulnerabilities

23% cloud compliance score improvement

ARMO is a powerful and essential tool for Cloud & Kubernetes security. It has greatly improved our security posture and efficiency, greatly decreased our vulnerabilities and I highly recommend it for anyone managing cloud-native environments.

Ewald Schrader Security Engineer, Vandebron

We needed a solution that could keep up with the rapidly evolving cloud security landscape, managing the complexity of Kubernetes environments, ensuring compliance with regulations, and protecting sensitive data in a dynamic and distributed infrastructure.