Smartex is reinventing quality inspection in textile manufacturing. Their AI-powered inspection systems sit on factory floors handling sensitive production data for some of the world's largest apparel brands. As they grew past 120 employees and onboarded enterprise clients, the bar for security rose with them.
A fast-changing attack surface, slow detection cycles
Paulo, VP of Engineering at Smartex, had a Velocity problem.
Multiple environments. Frequent deploys. Limited security headcount. Vulnerabilities could land on Monday and stay unnoticed for weeks. By the time the previous testing approach surfaced something exploitable, it had already been live in production long enough to matter.
He needed continuous validation that moved at engineering speed.
Mapping the surface, validating in near-real-time
Ethiack's platform mapped Smartex's attack surface end to end, including assets the team had lost track of, and brought everything under continuous, autonomous testing. Hackian validates exploitability the moment new code ships. For the highest-stakes assets, Smartex layers in deep, on-demand pentests by Ethiack's elite ethical hackers, all under one platform.
The change Paulo points to is speed:
“With other tools we took weeks to detect vulnerabilities. Now they’re found and mitigated within days.”
And the second-order effect, the one engineering leaders care about most:
We can sleep better at night knowing that if something shows up, we’ll know right away.
Compliance with EU regulation became operational, not aspirational. Engineering kept its release cadence. Risk shrank.
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