How Northbridge built deeper enterprise trust with developer-first endpoint security
Northbridge
A high-growth enterprise software company strengthened endpoint assurance for enterprise reviews—without deploying traditional MDM—by pairing EDAMAME with its existing SOC 2 + Vanta compliance backbone.
Vanta, SSO/IdP, laptops across engineering + product + operations, EDAMAME
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Challenge
Northbridge already had a strong foundation: SOC 2 and a compliance automation platform (Vanta). That answered baseline questions, but enterprise security reviews quickly moved beyond checklists—especially around endpoints.
Customers started asking concrete questions:
Which devices can access sensitive systems and data?
How do you ensure those devices are actually secure?
What visibility do you have into laptops beyond what a compliance platform checks?
Internally, the goal was clear: treat SOC 2 as a starting point, increase real security signal on endpoints, and do it without going full MDM. Traditional MDM/UEM was a poor fit culturally and operationally—high friction, heavy lockdowns, and too much “remote control” for a fast-moving team.
They needed company-wide assurance across the endpoints that touch sensitive customer and strategic data (not just developer laptops), while keeping a developer-first, employee-friendly operating model.
Solution
Northbridge chose EDAMAME to deepen endpoint posture in a way that fit their operating style—and to extend Vanta with device-level telemetry rather than replace it.
Company-wide rollout, no MDM
Instead of limiting coverage to engineering, Northbridge rolled EDAMAME out to the endpoints that matter most for customer trust: engineering, product, and other roles with access to sensitive data.
Real-time posture checks (encryption, OS baseline, core protections) with clear remediation guidance.
Fleet-level visibility for security—without removing admin rights or forcing a one-size-fits-all device lockdown.
Feeding endpoint signals back into Vanta
Because EDAMAME integrates with Vanta, Northbridge connected the two so device posture evidence flows back into their existing compliance backbone. That helped them answer “show us your endpoint controls” questions with continuously verified data instead of ad-hoc scripts and policy language.
Roadmap: conditional access
With posture visibility in place, Northbridge’s next stage is posture-based conditional access for sensitive internal applications—ensuring unknown or non-attested devices can’t masquerade as compliant.
Longer term, they plan to extend the same principles to CI/CD build systems—treating runners as high-value endpoints and applying posture and network controls consistently across the SDLC.
Results
Stronger endpoint story in enterprise reviews
Northbridge can now answer deeper endpoint questions with concrete, continuously verified posture signals—going beyond what a compliance platform typically covers out-of-the-box.
Security and productivity aligned
The company avoided the “MDM trap”: no heavy lockdowns, no loss of autonomy, and a security layer that feels like infrastructure rather than punishment—while still giving leadership and security the assurance they need.
More confident buyer conversations
When security questionnaires arrive, Northbridge can present a clear layered narrative:
Baseline: SOC 2 with Vanta as the compliance backbone.
Endpoint assurance: EDAMAME deployed across key endpoints with real-time posture and remediation.
Integration: endpoint evidence visible alongside existing controls.
Roadmap: posture-based conditional access and, later, CI/CD coverage.
The result: clearer, faster reviews—and a more mature trust signal for enterprise buyers.
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