We are the largest insurance
provider in Norway.
Security is our brand.
That's what we do as a company.
We take data security very seriously.
There are new threats.
So you need to be sharp to innovate.
We as developers,
we also need to be as clever
as the hackers out there.
We had our security
in one silo and application
developers and their other silo.
We wanted to build a platform
which is secured by design.
Now we have the new Azure
application platform
and we're calling it GAP,
Gjensidige Application Platform.
We have collaborated
with Microsoft from the start
because they have “security first”
mindset in their own products.
We really believe in the philosophy
of, "you build it and you own it".
We don't want to do the nitty-gritty
infrastructural thing.
We want to build on
top of Kubernetes
and create a really nice
application platform.
By containerizing the application
that has less impact on
bigger infrastructure
getting compromised.
We are using managed identity
so each pod has their own identity.
With the capabilities,
of GitHub Secrets
and the Azure Key Vault,
we are moving all our secrets
out of the code.
GitHub is a great tool.
It has a lot of capabilities.
I really like the Advanced Security.
It gives the teams
an easy way to scan your application
for vulnerabilities.
They have created a model where code is
sort of open to everyone by default.
We are getting the security issues
and the bugs up in the light,
and we have built
in security with automation
every step of the way.
When they first start with pushing code,
we are seeing tracking their dependencies
with the Dependabot.
We are tracking all lines
of their code with
GitHub Advanced Security.
This gives power
to our developers
to contribute, to suggest,
to comment and to
leverage the best practices
from other teams.
It gives us developer velocity.
That Microsoft is now
contributing a lot to open source
is a sign of quality.
The best thing about
Azure Platform is that it integrates
with the best of the partner solutions
available for you.
It's a huge change in joy of working.
We're much more predictable
in our deliveries to the business.
Gjensidige is a digital native company.
Everything we do new,
we do it in the cloud.
We have the world record
for the fastest payout, five seconds.
We are not just building it
for today's world threat.
We wanted to make sure
that we are secure for
future challenges as well.
We have a bright future in Gjensidige.