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Cambia Health Solutions Case Study
Cambia Elevates Cybersecurity Efficiency with Brinqa’s Innovative Platform
Cambia’s Strategic Shift: Streamlining Vulnerability Management with Brinqa
Solutions:
- Automated Vulnerability Management
- Risk Based Vulnerability Management
Annual Revenue
$4.2 Billion
Industry
Nonprofit Healthcare
Results of creating the risk operation center with Brinqa
50%
Reduction in Vulnerability Owner Discovery & Remediation
Faster and More
Informed Decision-Making
Reduced Cost
In Cybersecurity Operations
Improved compliance
With industry security standards
Cambia Health Solutions faced significant challenges with traditional vulnerability management methods, which relied heavily on unwieldy spreadsheets that often became too large and complex to manage effectively. This outdated approach hindered their ability to clearly communicate and prioritize cybersecurity risks across the organization, impacting overall security management efficiency.
Challenges in Legacy Vulnerability Management at Cambia Health Solutions
Cambia Health Solutions wanted to improve operational efficiencies by modernizing its vulnerability management practices. The goal was to eliminate busywork and primarily based on outdated, spreadsheet-driven methods. As the organization grew, the scale and complexity of managing cybersecurity risks also increased, leading to a situation where the existing tools were no longer adequate. The spreadsheets became excessively large and cumbersome, frequently unmanageable on standard computing equipment. This slowed down the vulnerability management process and increased the risk of errors and oversights. The lack of a dynamic and scalable system led to bottlenecks, making it difficult for analysts to open, update, or use the data effectively for security operations.
The system limited data visibility and communication within the organization. The security team struggled with a fragmented view of vulnerabilities due to the isolated nature of data stored across multiple, disjointed spreadsheets. This setup made it challenging to obtain a holistic view of the cybersecurity landscape or to prioritize actions based on the actual risks to the organization.
The spreadsheet-based system’s manual nature meant that much of the data was static and outdated, failing to provide real-time insights into emerging threats. The overall impact was a reactive rather than proactive approach to cybersecurity, where the security team was often a step behind, struggling to keep up with the evolving threat environment.
Brinqa Streamlined & Unified Cambia Vulnerability Operations
Cambia recognized the inefficiencies and risks associated with this manual system and sought a solution to streamline its cybersecurity operations and provide a more dynamic and scalable approach to managing vulnerabilities.
Brinqa’s platform offered Cambia a comprehensive solution by automating the entire vulnerability management process. This transition marked a significant departure from spreadsheets to a more sophisticated and integrated approach. Brinqa’s automated tools enabled real-time data processing and indexing, vastly improving the speed and accuracy of vulnerability searches and analyses. Furthermore, the platform included dynamic dashboards and reporting tools that provided up-to-date insights into Cambia’s cybersecurity posture. This enabled the security team to detect and respond to threats promptly and precisely.
“Brinqa reporting is super fast and unlike anything else we tried before.”
Moreover, Brinqa implemented a grading system that assessed each application across various security categories, such as host, container, code, and configuration vulnerabilities. This system simplified the communication of security statuses across the organization and facilitated greater middle and senior leadership engagement.
By providing leaders with clear, actionable insights into the security landscape, Brinqa helped Cambia’s leadership better understand their roles in the cybersecurity effort, empowering them to allocate resources more effectively and elevate the organization’s overall security posture. Through these strategic implementations, Brinqa helped Cambia transform its approach from a reactive to a more proactive cybersecurity strategy, aligning better with modern security best practices and enhancing the organization’s resilience against cyber threats.
“We needed to apply risk-based vulnerability management against business-critical vulnerabilities. Brinqa enabled us to dig out of a hole. Now we have a place to do not only our formatted report cards, dashboards, etc., but we also have ad hoc search capability to drill in on things.”
Customer Benefits
Platform replaced inefficient spreadsheet-based management, allowing for more effective vulnerability tracking and remediation.
Delivered better insights into security posture with dynamic dashboards and real-time reporting, making it easier to understand and act upon security data.
The grading system helped Cambia communicate the status of vulnerabilities and risks in a straightforward manner accessible to technical staff and senior leadership.
Automating the prioritization and remediation processes allowed Cambia to allocate its security resources more effectively, focusing efforts where they most needed to mitigate risks.
Brinqa’s platform brought several operational improvements to Cambia Health Solutions. It introduced a grading system that transformed how vulnerabilities were communicated and understood across various levels of the organization. This system allowed technical teams to prioritize issues more effectively and provided clear, actionable insights to senior leadership who were previously less aware of the security landscape.
Brinqa’s automated tools for prioritizing and remediating vulnerabilities helped reduce the manual labor associated with these processes, freeing the security staff to focus on more strategic initiatives. Implementing real-time dashboards and reporting tools further enabled Cambia to maintain a continuous overview of its security posture, facilitating quicker responses to potential threats and ensuring the organization’s cybersecurity measures were proactive and aligned with its overall business objectives.
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