Marqeta achieves faster application engineering and stronger security with Lacework

Marqeta, a leader in modern card issuing and payment solutions for businesses, provides tools and a platform for building highly configurable solutions that support both physical and virtual payment cards. With its open API, the Marqeta platform gives businesses a simple way to tailor and manage their own payment card programs to create worldclass experiences and new modes of commerce. Marqeta is growing and uses a cloud-based infrastructure to support its expanding operations and customer base.

Challenges

• Create a faster more agile DevOps process
• Improve process visibility while moving to containerized microservices architecture with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Modernize existing AWS systems while meeting compliance regulations and achieving a high degree of visibility

Solutions

• Improve process visibility while moving to a Amazon EKS containerized microservices architecture
• Total visibility and validation of all containerized instances and activity

Results

• Faster application development and improved security monitoring with no additional AWS expertise
• Security team freed to focus on other issues like endpoint detection and threat hunting