Case Study: SecurityScorecard cuts projected operating costs 48.3% and saves $1M+ with Confluent
Key results
The challenge
SecurityScorecard, a cybersecurity ratings company, was spending significant engineering time, up to eight hours a week, maintaining self-managed Apache Kafka. The team needed to scale data ingestion and internet scanning without growing its operational overhead.
The solution
SecurityScorecard moved to Confluent to offload Kafka operations and scale its data streaming and governance. This let the team amplify ingested and processed data and expand its port-scanning coverage.
“We went from scanning the internet in a month and a half on 80 ports to being able to do what people said was literally not possible: over 1400 ports in a week and a half, at a level that no other system could produce.”
BBBrandon BrownSenior Engineering Manager, SecurityScorecard
The results, in context
SecurityScorecard projected an overall 48.3% reduction in annual operating costs and estimated over a million dollars in savings versus other vendors, with roughly $125K saved per year. The team also cited an 80% reduction in Day 2 operational burdens and amplified processed data 10 to 100x.