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Achivements
5× Faster Detection
Improved Communication
Streamlined Workflows
Overview
Street Group, a fast-growing PropTech company, needed a way to bring security in line with its rapid development cycles. Traditional testing approaches were too slow, reactive, and disconnected from developer workflows — creating unnecessary delays and risking missed vulnerabilities.
By adopting Cytix, Street Group embedded continuous security testing directly into Jira workflows and Slack communications. This shift enabled the business to detect critical issues 5x faster, align fixes to sprints, and reduce the burden on engineering teams while maintaining release velocity.
The Challenge
Before Cytix, Street Group's engineering team faced:
Slow, traditional testing cycles that disrupted development.
Delayed remediation, with vulnerabilities raised long after changes shipped.
Manual chasing, where security issues weren't automatically routed to the right teams.
Visibility gaps, as testers sometimes couldn't locate or activate features due to reliance on feature flags.
These challenges left engineering leads spending too much time chasing updates instead of focusing on delivery, while critical issues risked being missed or delayed.
Approach with Cytix
Cytix integrated into Street Group's workflows to ensure security testing became collaborative, contextual, and aligned with product delivery. This approach created a cultural shift: teams now work with the knowledge that security is continuously embedded, leading to more secure development practices from the start.
Key Implementation Elements
Jira integration
Automatically raising issues in the security board, with the ability to link diagnostics back to original tickets.
Slack notifications
Providing real-time updates and enabling quick clarification on findings.
Continuous testing
Running checks on every change, ensuring vulnerabilities are caught early and mapped to relevant features.
Environment alignment
Adapting to feature-flag-driven releases, ensuring new functionality is tested as soon as it's staged.
5x faster detection of critical issues
Vulnerabilities are identified and triaged significantly faster than with legacy pen testing cycles.
What the Team Says
"Cytix has helped us embed security into our workflows without slowing us down. The ability to detect critical issues 5x faster and route them to the right teams means our engineers can focus on building, while staying confident in our security posture."
Chris Grice, Head of Engineering at Street Group
Conclusion
Cytix has enabled Street Group to move from reactive, slow security cycles to a model of continuous, developer-aligned testing. Critical issues are now detected and resolved 5x faster, freeing engineering leads from manual coordination and embedding security into the fabric of the development process.
With Cytix, Street Group can maintain the pace of innovation while ensuring its platforms remain secure and resilient.
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