CHALLENGE
Managing security for a platform producing 1 billion videos annually requires protecting a high-velocity environment where threats "shapeshift" weekly.
Modern innovations like AI introduce "competing objectives" where tools may prioritize task completion over established security protocols.
A lean security team lacked visibility into complex cloud asset relationships, leading to reactive firefighting and manual, one-by-one vulnerability remediation.
SOLUTION
SundaySky gained the comprehensive visibility needed to utilize its resources in an optimal way by better understanding how all infrastructure assets connect.
The team implemented single strategic fixes that resolve dozens of high-severity risks simultaneously, providing massive operational leverage.
Security transformed into a streamlined, collaborative partnership by providing developers with exact file names and line numbers for code fixes.
KEY METRICS
Faster, more efficient
communication with R&D teams, leading to faster time to market for package upgrades.
15
critical/high severity issues resolved with a single IAM role fix
1 billion
video interactions protected annually
Company Background: Scale and Security Precision
For almost two decades, SundaySky has been a leader in personalized video technology, helping enterprise brands create meaningful customer connections at scale. The company's platform generates more than 1 billion videos per year, with each one renders in real time within seconds of a viewer pressing play. This massive scale demands not only technical excellence but also security precision.
Protecting this high-velocity operation falls to a lean team of security professionals. For Amit Levran, head of security, efficiency is the key difference between strategic security leadership and constant firefighting.
The Challenge: Navigating a "Shapeshifting" Landscape
Amit sees the modern security landscape as a "shapeshifter, constantly evolving." He compares the environment to Forrest Gump’s "box of chocolates"—where “You never know what you’re gonna get” and "next great thing" for the business, such as the rapid rise of AI, often becomes the next biggest challenge for the security team.
While SundaySky is constantly innovating, Amit explains that new technologies often lack transparency. He notes that while humans can be trained with guardrails, automated systems and AI models can have "competing objectives." If a tool is tasked with a tight deadline, it may inadvertently bypass security protocols to meet that goal. For a lean team, the risk is the "unintended consequences" of tools giving themselves access permissions or publicly exposing S3 data, for example.
Before implementing Wiz, SundaySky's ability to identify these complex, interconnected misconfigurations wasn’t as efficient as they would have liked. They had limited visibility into how different assets connected across their cloud infrastructure, leaving them trapped in a reactive cycle.
“What Wiz does really well is identifying the issues. Wiz’s Security Graph allows us to understand where any misconfigurations sit and what they’re connected to—that’s the big value I’m getting from Wiz.”
— Amit Levran, Head of Security, SundaySky
Solution: Understanding the Security Graph for Strategic Prioritization
The transformation began with Wiz providing a comprehensive view of SundaySky's security posture through a graph-based approach. This went beyond listing individual vulnerabilities to showing the actual relationships between assets, permissions, and risks.
This shift fundamentally changed how the team approached risk. Instead of seeing 15 separate critical issues, the security team could now see that they all stemmed from a single misconfigured IAM role. By making one strategic fix to that role, 15 problems—including potential pathways for data exfiltration—were instantly resolved.
This provided staggering leverage for the team. Amit says Wiz has helped change his day-to-day tremendously for the better.
"Wiz has completely changed how I think about tackling vulnerabilities. It gives me the ability to use my time wisely and remove 15 different issues from my plate so I can prioritize the issues that really need handling.”
— Amit Levran, Head of Security, SundaySky
Key Impact: Transforming Developer Relationships with Precision
A critical benefit came in how Wiz Code transformed the relationship between the security and development teams. In a high-scale environment, the security team needs to point to exactly what needs fixing, rather than providing high-level descriptions of problems.
“Wiz Code allows me to communicate with my R&D team in their native language and be more clear about what I’m asking them to do. It helps improve the relationship between R&D and security.”
— Amit Levran, Head of Security, SundaySky
This precision made conversations between Amit’s team and R&D faster and more collaborative. For example, Before Wiz Code, Amit would have to ask a developer to tell him all the places where a specific package was not upgraded to the correct version. With Wiz Code, he has better visibility into the packages that aren’t up to date and can simply ask his developers to upgrade them.
“Wiz Code saves time for developers, it saves time for me, and it creates a much better dialogue and a faster time to market for all of those fixes.” Amit Levran, Head of Security, SundaySky
—Amit Levran, Head of Security, SundaySky
What’s Next
SundaySky’s security team now protects a platform generating 1 billion videos annually with a level of efficiency that was previously impossible. By using Wiz to understand the relationships between their data and their tools, they have moved from firefighting to strategic risk management.
As the landscape continues to shift toward AI and other automated technologies, Amit and his team now have the visibility and precision required to anticipate risks and maintain the agility of a global enterprise leader.
