STIGNING

Case-studie

Issuer Authorization Platform Resilience Program

Anonymized engagement for a high-volume issuer authorization platform with strict latency and continuity requirements.

01

Kontekst

A card authorization platform operating multi-region traffic experienced rising tail latency during dependency incidents and weak isolation in custody-adjacent signing workflows.

02

Teknisk risiko

  • Authorization throughput degraded under partial dependency failure, with unstable p95 latency.
  • Signing service fault boundaries were insufficiently isolated, raising compromise blast radius.
  • Incident recovery lacked deterministic rollback controls across critical service groups.

03

Intervensjon

  • Re-architected request routing and fallback control to preserve throughput under dependency instability.
  • Introduced stronger signing-boundary segregation and key lifecycle guardrails.
  • Implemented deterministic rollback gates with release-level verification checks.

04

Målt resultat

  • Service continuity improved during degraded-state operation.
  • Critical signing paths retained control under incident pressure.
  • Operational teams reduced restoration time for high-severity incidents.
MålingFørEtterEndring
Authorization latency p95410 ms165 ms-59.8%
Signing incident MTTR84 min19 min-77.4%
Failed release rollback time43 min8 min-81.4%
Control coverage62%96%+34 pp

05

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