Plerion.

Providing End-to-End API Security for Plerion

Plerion is on a mission to simplify cloud security for enterprises by providing a platform that identifies, prioritizes, and helps remediate critical security vulnerabilities across major cloud environments.

By taking a targeted approach to cloud security, Plerion focuses on reducing risks in real-time, ensuring their customers’ most valuable assets remain protected. As a security-first company, Plerion needed a solution that would help safeguard their extensive use of APIs, which are a fundamental component of how their services interact with cloud infrastructures. With FireTail, Plerion has the tools they need to monitor, secure, and respond to API-based threats.

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The Challenge

The complexity of cloud security is growing rapidly, with environments becoming larger and more interconnected. Plerion’s platform manages an extensive set of APIs to help clients prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities in their cloud environments. As Plerion scaled, they recognized that their APIs, while powerful, could also present attack vectors that could compromise their customers’ data.

Plerion wanted to “shift left” by embedding security directly into their API development process, ensuring secure design from the start. Initially, Plerion planned to build their own API security tools but they needed a short-term solution to monitor and manage the APIs already in production. They also required visibility into API usage to identify vulnerabilities and understand attack paths. FireTail was the answer.

The Solution

FireTail partnered with Plerion to deliver API security that would not only protect existing services but also support Plerion’s future growth plans. FireTail provided an agentless API security solution that integrated seamlessly into Plerion’s cloud environments, enabling comprehensive protection without introducing unnecessary complexity. Key benefits that Plerion gained from FireTail include:

• Real-Time API Monitoring: FireTail continuously tracks API traffic, alerting Plerion to any anomalies, unauthorized access attempts, or potential threats. This helps Plerion ensure that their APIs behave as intended and remain secure, even in production.
• Attack Path Visibility: FireTail identifies potential attack paths starting at vulnerable APIs and provides actionable insights to break those chains before an attacker can exploit them. This prioritization allows Plerion to focus on vulnerabilities that matter most, dramatically reducing the time to remediation.
• Shift-Left Security: FireTail’s platform empowers Plerion to build APIs with security in mind from the beginning. Plerion can now easily identify and prioritize vulnerabilities within development and ensure systemic fixes prevent future issues.
• API Inventory & Security Auditing: With FireTail, Plerion gains a comprehensive inventory of all APIs in their environment, ensuring none are exposed or misconfigured without proper security oversight. FireTail automatically identifies and tracks new APIs, ensuring continuous security review as APIs are created.

“API security is complex. Older tools just threw lists of problems at us without any clear way to prioritize them. FireTail helps us go a step further by showing us where the actual risks are in our APIs and how to address them. We can now see potential attack paths before they happen and take action to stop them."
Dan Grzelak | Chief Innovation Officer | Plerion

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The Results

FireTail has provided Plerion with the confidence and clarity needed to secure their APIs across multi-cloud environments. By automatically identifying and prioritizing potential threats, FireTail ensures that Plerion’s APIs are built securely in development and behave correctly in production.

“FireTail’s ability to monitor our APIs in real time and show us where risks could arise has been transformative,” says Dan Grzelak, Chief Innovation Officer at Plerion. “We’ve integrated FireTail into our cloud platforms, and it’s given us the single-pane-of-glass view we needed. We can see all of our APIs, prioritize risks, and be sure that our attack surface is covered.”

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Plerion continues to leverage FireTail to secure their API infrastructure, gaining both immediate protection and long-term strategic insight while eliminating the need to develop their own tools. With FireTail’s help, Plerion can focus on scaling their platform and delivering a simplified, effective cloud security solution to their customers.

For Plerion, FireTail is more than just an API security tool—it’s a partner in their journey to protect cloud infrastructures across the globe.

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