Financial Services Sector
How a Top US Financial Advisory Firm Enforced 360° MuleSoft Compliance & Governance With Falcon Suite
Project Overview
A prominent US-based financial advisory firm offering comprehensive wealth management services to individuals, families, and businesses. As part of their digital transformation journey, the firm integrated MuleSoft to streamline financial data services and backend toolchains. But like many financial institutions, they faced escalating concerns around regulatory compliance, integration security, governance, and operational visibility.
The Challenges
Before deploying Falcon Suite, the team was managing its MuleSoft development lifecycle without a formalized system for ensuring enterprise-grade code quality and security compliance. Key challenges identified during their product trial included:
Guaranteeing Integration Data Privacy
As a wealth management company, the team needed to ensure that no scanning or review process would compromise sensitive financial or client data.
Avoiding Operational Interruptions During Scanning
Security processes had to be transparent, controllable, and non-intrusive—particularly in environments with multiple CI/CD pipelines and direct deployments.
Lack of Centralized Rule Governance
With 15 MuleSoft developers across various initiatives, the team struggled to enforce uniform coding standards and maintain consistent deployment quality.
Toolchain Compatibility
Integration with tools like LastPass or HashiCorp Vault was essential for secrets management and streamlined endpoint configuration.
Compliance & Security Visibility
Robust dashboards and dynamic reporting to monitor quality gates, track risks, and respond proactively to issues across their MuleSoft projects.
User Onboarding & Interface Intuitiveness
Ease of adoption was critical. The chosen platform had to support flexible login options and be easy to navigate for developers and security leads alike.
The Solutions
After a hands-on evaluation through a trial license, the organization chose to implement the full Falcon Suite, which included:
- Plugin for Anypoint Studio delivering real-time, in-line code reviews with 165+ MuleSoft and 50+ API rules.
- CI/CD pipeline integration with configurable quality gates to automatically block non-compliant builds.
- Autofix capability for instant code corrections and issue resolution
- Support for custom rule creation using a groovy-script playground
- Post-deployment dynamic scanning of apps deployed to Runtime Manager and API Manager
- Detection of policy gaps (e.g., missing rate limits or auth protocols)
- Automated health scans to detect direct deployments that bypass governance
- Ability to monitor API version sprawl and inactive or deprecated assets
- Full inventory of all deployed apps, APIs, libraries, and dependencies
- 91+ metrics for reverse lookup, deprecated component tracking, and connector usage
- Crucial for risk audits like Java Log4j vulnerability detection across the platform
- Scanning agents could be deployed on-premise, allowing the team to retain complete control over data
- Server received only the scan results, ensuring sensitive code or data never left organization’s internal network
★★★★★
Head of Integration,
A Leading Global MedTech and Healthcare Company, USA
Results & Early Impact
With Falcon Scan, Falcon Eye, and Falcon Lens, the organization gained a 360° view of their development and deployment pipeline, reducing manual compliance tracking.
Falcon Eye flagged non-compliant apps deployed outside the CI/CD pipeline, giving security teams confidence in post-production integrity.
Developers now receive real-time, automated code feedback and can autofix issues before committing code, improving standardization without slowing velocity.
The platform’s reporting tools support internal audits, demonstrating regulatory alignment across all MuleSoft APIs and applications.
Falcon Lens provided clarity into API usage, deprecated versions, and transitive dependencies—critical in financial environments with complex system integrations.
Project Cost
As part of their onboarding, the client licensed Falcon Suite for 15 MuleSoft developers, giving them full access to Falcon Scan, Falcon Eye, and Falcon Lens modules. The investment was made after a successful trial period where the platform’s feature set was mapped closely to the client’s regulatory and operational needs.
While cost savings are yet to be measured in hard financial terms, early indications show significant time reductions in review cycles, reduced manual effort, and greater audit preparedness—positioning the client for long-term efficiency and compliance.
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