Leading Auto Marketplace Eliminates 2,400+ Vulnerabilities Across 100+ Apps With a Robust Vulnerability Management Program

Quick overview

• Client: A leading auto marketplace company.
• Technology used: Snyk, AWS Inspector
• Goal: Strengthen application and cloud security.
• Challenge: Heavy use of open-source libraries, public Docker images, and AWS-managed workloads introduced widespread security risks across 100+ applications.
• Solution: Wavicle implemented an integrated Snyk + AWS Inspector–based vulnerability management program with automated scanning, remediation, and centralized visibility.

An automotive marketplace company partnered with Wavicle to enhance its application and cloud security posture. Wavicle implemented a comprehensive vulnerability management program using Snyk for application-layer protection and AWS Inspector for infrastructure-level scanning. This integrated approach enabled continuous visibility into risks, accelerated remediation, and strengthened the organization’s overall security readiness.

Challenges

Identifying critical security gaps across an evolving platform

The company used open-source libraries, public Docker images, and AWS-managed workloads to build and scale its applications, which introduced many security challenges:

• Application layer contained unpatched dependencies and misconfigured IaC templates.
• Public Docker images included outdated or insecure components that increased exposure.
• AWS workloads such as EC2, Lambda, and ECR faced runtime vulnerabilities and configuration issues.
• Multi-account AWS environment created inconsistencies in scanning, role management, and centralized reporting.
• Manual triaging and frequent dependency updates required continuous adjustments to security controls, slowing down development teams.

These security gaps created an urgent need for an automated, continuous, and developer-friendly vulnerability management solution.

Solution

Implementing an end-to-end vulnerability management program to strengthen platform resilience

Wavicle deployed a unified vulnerability management program using Snyk and AWS Inspector to secure both the application stack and AWS infrastructure. The approach included:

• Integrating Snyk directly into developer workflows—IDEs, Git repositories, and CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins—to enable early detection of vulnerabilities in open-source packages, Docker images, and IaC templates.
• Leveraging Snyk’s automated fix recommendations and pull-request generation to speed up remediation and prevent insecure packages from entering the environment.
• Implementing AWS Inspector to continuously scan EC2, Lambda, and ECR resources for vulnerabilities and configuration issues.
• Using Inspector’s native integration with AWS Security Hub to achieve centralized visibility and better risk prioritization.
• Standardizing IAM roles across all AWS accounts to ensure consistent scanning coverage and simplified governance.

Throughout the engagement, Wavicle optimized tool configurations to adapt to ongoing dependency updates and AWS service changes, ensuring long-term effectiveness of the security controls.

Results

Achieving significant risk reduction and long-term security gains

Wavicle’s unified vulnerability management program delivered strong, measurable outcomes:

Through Wavicle’s Snyk and AWS Inspector implementation, the organization now has a clear, streamlined, and sustainable approach to managing vulnerabilities across both applications and cloud infrastructure. The project strengthened day-to-day development workflows, improved response times, and created greater confidence in the security of business-critical systems. With these foundations in place, the company is better prepared to scale securely and maintain strong protection as its technology landscape evolves.