What the Client Was Facing
A SaaS company's engineering team spent 8 hours every week applying manual security patches. Patches were applied inconsistently, some servers were months out of date and a CVE had recently caused a security incident due to a missed patch.
What ZippyOPS Was Engaged To Do
ZippyOPS was brought in to design and implement a solution addressing the root causes of the client's challenges — delivering measurable outcomes within a fixed engagement timeline. Our team worked embedded with the client's engineers throughout the entire project.
How We Solved It
ZippyOPS implemented Ansible-driven patch management with OS-level patching, service restart orchestration and pre/post health check automation. A canary patching strategy ensured production stability — patching 10% of servers first with automated health validation before rolling out fleet-wide.
Technologies Used
Measurable Outcomes Delivered
Manual patch effort reduced from 8 hours/week to zero
All servers patched within 48 hours of a CVE being published
Canary strategy prevented 2 potential production incidents in first 90 days
Weekly patch compliance report sent automatically to the security team
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