How a Global Manufacturer Cut Compliance Prep by 90% & Reduced Vulnerability Noise by 95%
Learn how Finite State helped a global manufacturer eliminate 95% of false positives, streamline SBOM workflows, & cut audit prep time from weeks to days.
Finite State Team
When security teams are buried in noise, real threats slip through the cracks. For one global manufacturer, fragmented tools, siloed workflows, and excessive false positives were doing just that—derailing compliance efforts and distracting from what really mattered.
Here’s how they turned it around with Finite State.
Problem: A Fragmented Security Landscape
Before partnering with Finite State, this manufacturer faced a growing challenge: five different SBOM generators were in use across product lines. Each product release produced a new wave of disconnected data—SBOMs in inconsistent formats, vulnerability reports lacking context, and evidence scattered across teams.
The result? Weeks of effort from legal, compliance, and product security teams just to prepare for audits and regulatory reviews. No single source of truth. No way to validate which vulnerabilities truly mattered. And no efficient path to production.
The Turning Point: Unifying with Finite State
The company needed more than another scanning tool; it needed a centralized platform to unify and streamline product security from end to end. That’s where Finite State came in.
By adopting our platform, they were able to:
- Normalize SBOM generation across all teams and tools
- Ingest third-party SBOMs, enabling full supply chain visibility
- Enrich vulnerabilities with reachability analysis, filtering out noise
- Automate policy enforcement and assign ownership for compliance tracking
- Export standardized SBOMs and VEX data for internal and external stakeholders
The Impact: Weeks to Days. Noise to Signal.
The results were immediate and measurable:
95% Noise Reduction
Finite State’s reachability and exploitability analysis helped the security team focus only on vulnerabilities that were actually exploitable. This dramatically reduced false positives and triage fatigue.
Compliance Prep Time Cut by 90%
What once took weeks of manual effort now takes just days, thanks to automated workflows, consolidated views, and audit-ready SBOMs.
Predictable, Repeatable Releases
With a single pane of glass into SBOMs, vulnerability findings, and policy compliance, teams now share a common view of readiness—across security, engineering, and legal.
Regulatory Readiness Built In
Whether for EU CRA, Cyber Trust Mark, or internal risk frameworks, the platform provides full traceability:
- VEX status tracking
- Assigned vulnerability ownership
- Complete SBOM lifecycle management
Why This Matters
This isn’t just a story about one company; it’s a blueprint for what’s possible when product security moves from reactive to proactive.
Key Takeaways:
- ✅ Reduce security noise by up to 95% with reachability analysis
- ✅ Accelerate compliance workflows from weeks to days
- ✅ Unify SBOMs, findings, and policies across teams and tools
- ✅ Gain transparency across your entire software supply chain
- ✅ Meet regulations with confidence, not chaos
Ready to Streamline Your Product Security?
If your teams are still buried in manual audits and noisy vulnerability data, it’s time to see what a unified platform can do.
👉 Request a demo and learn how Finite State can help your organization turn complexity into clarity.
Finite State Team
The Finite State team brings together experts in cybersecurity, embedded systems, and software supply chain risk to help connected device manufacturers secure their products and comply with evolving global regulations.
