How Lyft closed a critical cloud visibility gap with Incydr, right before going public.
We went from not really understanding anything about what was going on with our data, to seeing everything with Incydr. We are able to see everything down to the minutiae of someone uploading a specific screenshot to Slack, up to the broader strokes of someone sharing an entire folder in Google Drive to an outside entity.
Security Analyst
Despite major investments in security tooling, Lyft's security analyst Jay Ward still struggled to see where critical data was moving, especially in the cloud. Google Drive was a particular blind spot: central to everything from driver training guides to hiring materials, yet the team had no visibility into how data moved through it or even how large their Drive footprint had become. As Lyft prepared for its 2019 IPO, closing that gap became urgent.
With Incydr, Lyft went from complete blindness to full visibility, down to individual file uploads and folder shares with outside parties. "Mimecast Incydr does a lot more than just tick boxes for us," Ward says. "It's something we engage with daily... it's kind of our source of truth." Bringing in Incydr just before going public "really saved our bacon," Ward says, turning what could have been overwhelming visibility into the assurance the team needed heading into one of the most high-stakes moments in company history.
