About
PayEm is a global finance and procurement solution combining budget control, invoice management, customizable intake forms, and approval workflows. This empowers organizations with financial insights and integrations for efficient operations.
The platform facilitates smooth collaboration among employees, approvers, finance, and procurement teams. It simplifies processes like fund requests, purchase orders, and financial transactions, promoting transparency and communication. This efficiency drives operational speed and productivity, resulting in notable time and resource savings.
Challenges and Goals
PayEm faced significant challenges with ensuring data security and compliance, particularly given the complex regulatory requirements associated with financial data. Managing the security at scale as they expanded into new markets was also challenging????.
Solution
The solution involved leveraging AWS security services to enhance PayEm’s infrastructure security. AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) was deployed to protect against web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise its security, or consume excessive resources. AWS Lambda service was used to run code in response to events, which includes security automations like responding to potential security incidents. Additionally, PayEm utilized Amazon RDS to ensure encrypted data storage solutions that comply with industry standards??.
Results
PayEm utilized AWS services to strengthen their security posture; AWS WAF to safeguard their web applications, AWS Lambda for security automation, Amazon RDS for secure and scalable database services with encryption at rest. Security groups and network ACLs for network security. IAM roles and policies for fine-grained access control.
Outcome
The integration of AWS security services enhanced PayEm’s ability to secure sensitive financial data, streamline compliance with various regulations, and manage security with ease. The adoption of AWS tools contributed to a robust security infrastructure that supports PayEm’s expansion and maintains high standards of data protection??.
