One of India’s largest ridesharing platforms built a collaboration tool, Jackhammer, to enhance security within the organization. Today’s threat landscape is so advanced and terrifying that cybersecurity is no more an afterthought for big or small companies.Research firm Gartner predicts that global cybersecurity spending will reach USD 86.4 billion in 2017, and is expected to grow to USD 93 billion in 2018.Ola is one of India’s largest and most popular platforms for ridesharing that allows customers to book cabs, bikes, shuttles, and autos using a mobile application. The Bangalore-based company wanted a robust security tool that would bridge the gap between the security team, developers, QA, TPMS and senior management to have clearer insights and visibility into the security hygiene of the company, and allow continuous integration and fast paced deployments throughout the day. Integration made easy The organization developed Jackhammer, a collaboration tool with an inbuilt vulnerability management capability, which could also do static and dynamic code analysis. Ola’s security engineering team built the whole project from scratch.Mohd. Shadab Siddiqui, head-Security at Ola, is confident that the suite is capable of analyzing code, web apps, mobile apps, network, and content management systems via combinations of various proven tools. “It also uses machine learning and the reports generated are available to developers or security teams so that users get a comprehensive view of what their business unit looks like in terms of security,” he says. Highlighting one of the best features of the suite, he points out, “The tool is easy to understand regardless of who you are: Developers, QA, senior leadership or security team.”It is also allows scalability and it’s capable of integrating new tools. “We have a dockerized orchestrator model where a user can individually scale the tools plugged into the suite and the orchestrator automatically load-balances the tools via maintaining a whole registry and therefore the scans are all running in concurrent mode. Moreover, every tool runs in its own sandboxed environment so that the user need not worry about any conflicts of tools and environments,” Siddiqui explains. Standardized security“The suite plugs into the CI systems and Git via hooks, so that the user has complete control over changes taking place in the repository. The entire suite is designed to make security a standard, he points out.As it is an open-source platform, security engineers as well as senior leadership can have a view of everything going on within the organization.Also, it is integrated with advance alert systems that can send alerts in the form of SMS, email, Slack, and Pagerduty, etc. “It has an integrated vulnerability manager, which can be plugged in to ticketing systems like Jira so that nothing slips through the cracks,” adds Siddiqui. Related content BrandPost Retail innovation playbook: Fast, economical transformation on Microsoft Cloud For retailers, tight integration of data and systems is the antidote to a challenging economy. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 24, 2023 3 mins Retail Industry Digital Transformation BrandPost How retailers are empowering business transformation with TCS and Microsoft Cloud AI-powered omnichannel integration and a strong, secure digital core lets retailers innovate across four primary areas while staying compliant, maintaining security and preventing fraud. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 24, 2023 4 mins Retail Industry Cloud Computing BrandPost How to Build ROI from Cloud Migration This whitepaper and webcast can help you calculate the ROI and create a business case for modernizing your legacy applications to the Microsoft Cloud. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 24, 2023 1 min Retail Industry Cloud Computing BrandPost How to power a sustainable enterprise on Microsoft Cloud In this eBook, we’ll follow the journey of Amal Skye, a fictitious woman who is committed to living in a way that preserves the planet for the future —and how businesses like Tata Consultancy Services and Microsoft are making that possi By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 24, 2023 1 min Retail Industry Green IT Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe