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Industry: Workforce Management

Deputy is the world’s leading workforce management platform, revolutionising hourly work for 1.5 million+ workers and 385,000+ workplaces across 100+ countries. For over 15 years, Deputy has helped businesses to effortlessly navigate complex labour laws and enhance employee engagement with predictable, transparent and flexible scheduling. Deputy’s platform delivers actionable insights to turn labour efficiency into a competitive advantage.

Challenge

As a global leader in workforce management, Deputy is committed to maintaining a best-in-class security posture. To proactively manage risk at scale across its complex cloud environments, the team sought a solution to provide a centralized view for identifying and prioritizing the potential risks. With multiple teams involved, they also needed a solution that could streamline how cloud risk was surfaced and coordinated across engineering - ensuring efforts were focused in the right areas.

In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, filtering the signal from the noise is a universal challenge. The team wanted to advance its capability to instantly contextualize and prioritize vulnerabilities, such as distinguishing potential exploits from those actively used in the wild, which is a complex task to perform at scale. To further mature its security program, Deputy looked to automate and streamline complex processes like attack path analysis and identity and access management oversight.

The Security team also sought to enhance its risk measurement framework, creating clear, quantifiable metrics to track continuous improvement and report on the program’s success to leadership.

Solution

To strengthen cloud security while supporting fast-paced development, Deputy turned to Plerion for a platform that could centralize visibility, reduce noise, and prioritize real risk. The platform’s broad feature set, beyond standard CSPM, offered the tools Deputy needed to stay ahead of threats without slowing down delivery.

"We’re a fast-moving organization, and Plerion helps us keep up without compromising security. It contextualizes risk, removes noise, and gives us exactly what we need to focus on what matters.” - Joseph Hanna, Security Engineer

Plerion’s risk scoring model provided Deputy with a clear view of both individual assets and their overall environment, helping the team quickly assess where to focus. Features like custom categorization of vulnerabilities, support for compensating controls, and compliance framework libraries have helped Deputy maintain accuracy while staying aligned with standards like ISO 27001 and SOC 2.

The inclusion of SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) also gave Deputy real-time visibility into third-party packages in use, adding another layer of insight across their cloud stack.

Kyle M., Security Operations Team Lead notes that Plerion’s ongoing support has been a key part of the experience -

“The team is responsive and proactive - they help us understand new features and make sure the platform works the way we need it to in our environment.”

Together, these capabilities allow Deputy to stay proactive and efficient, ensuring that security remains tightly integrated with how their teams build and ship software. ‍

Key Benefits

Prioritized security conversations: Plerion enables the Deputy security team to focus on the most important risks and have clearer, faster conversations with internal teams. Attack path analysis, for example, gives visibility that previously required time-consuming threat modelling, allowing Deputy to act quickly and with confidence.

Efficient cross-team triage: With structured findings and contextual guidance, Plerion accelerates the triage process and helps security collaborate more effectively with engineering. Teams spend less time debating what to fix and more time fixing what matters.

Streamlined infrastructure reviews: Plerion brings structure to Deputy’s infrastructure security review process, making it easier to identify meaningful issues, reduce noise, and align remediation with business priorities.

Results

Faster risk reduction - With Plerion, Deputy dramatically accelerated its ability to mitigate risk. The platform’s prioritization capabilities allowed the team to immediately focus on the most critical issues, significantly shortening the time between detection and remediation and measurably improving the company’s security posture.

Reduced engineering load - By providing clear, context-rich findings, Plerion streamlined the remediation process. This significantly reduced the time engineering teams spent on patch management, freeing them to focus on innovation and delivering value to Deputy’s customers.

Improved alert triage - By cutting down on unnecessary alerts, Plerion allowed teams to focus on real problems during patch cycles, reducing time spent on triage and improving overall efficiency.

Future-ready with AI - As a forward-looking workforce management software provider, Deputy is partnering with Plerion to explore the next generation of cloud security. As an early design partner for “Pleri,” Plerion’s AI security teammate, Deputy is helping shape the future of AI-driven security to further accelerate remediation and proactively address emerging threats.

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