99.8% Fewer Alerts, 98% Less Vulnerability Noise: A Security Evolution in Healthcare Tech

Company Overview

A leading healthcare IT provider that operates a state-based marketplace helps thousands of individuals compare healthcare plans, estimate costs, and access doctor networks to secure health coverage. By consolidating complex data across multiple states, the company improves healthcare access and reduces costs for thousands of people.

With faster software rollouts and responsibility for sensitive data, security and compliance pressures grew. Facing complex federal standards and an expanding threat landscape, the organization turned to the Sysdig Platform to modernize its approach.

Solutions

Continuous Compliance Built Into the Workflow

Sysdig immediately changed the organization’s approach to compliance by automating control validation across environments. Built-in mappings provided real-time visibility of a compliance posture linked directly to system behaviors.

Now, validating a control takes less than two minutes instead of 15, and the process is repeatable, auditable, and fully integrated into daily operations. In total, Sysdig helped the team eliminate more than 125 hours of manual audit preparation per cycle, turning compliance from a multiweek scramble into a daily habit. The team no longer prepares for audits under pressure; now they live in a state of continuous compliance.

“I just type in the control, Sysdig shows how we meet it, and I move on,” the Security Operations Manager said. A multiweek chore has become part of our daily workflow.”

This shift freed up weeks of manual effort each year, empowered the team to standardize documentation, and gave stakeholders from auditors to leaders confidence that the organization’s cloud security controls are always current.

Real-Time Detection That Reveals Real Risk

Sysdig provided runtime visibility, eliminating blind spots and sharpening focus on critical threats. By tying detections to severity and context, like attempted data exfiltration or drift from known-good container states, they slashed alert noise by 99.8%, going from more than 10,000 daily events to just two dozen prioritized alerts.

Sysdig doesn’t just flag events. It ties events to users, processes, and MITRE ATT&CK tactics, helping the team understand exactly what’s happening, how, and why. Forensic captures allow investigations to continue even after workloads are gone, which is essential for maintaining security visibility in ephemeral cloud environments.

“If something happens at 2 a.m., we can trace it, analyze it, and respond, even if the container no longer exists,” the Security Operations Manager said. “Sysdig gives us visibility and confidence we never had before.”

Drift control and runtime forensics strengthened tabletop exercises and incident response planning. During drills, the team could simulate events and walk through containment using actual runtime data, aligning technical operations with business-critical response plans.

Developer-Driven Vulnerability Management

Sysdig transformed how developers engage with security. By showing only vulnerabilities that are actively in use and potentially exploitable in production, the platform turned vulnerability management from a source of friction into a point of collaboration.

Developers now use filtered dashboards to address relevant vulnerabilities independently.

“We went from push to pull,” the Security Operations Manager said. “Now developers fix things because they trust the Sysdig data, and that speeds up remediation.”

The result: Vulnerability noise dropped by 98%, and unresolved issues in core workloads fell from over 500 to just 10. Critical vulnerabilities in production are now close to zero. Even more importantly, security and engineering teams are aligned on shared priorities.

Smart Security With a Personal AI Assistant

Adding even more scale and intelligence to their security operations, Sysdig Sage™, the platform’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, became an indispensable part of daily workflows. Each morning, the Security Operations Manager uses Sysdig Sage to reveal top event-generating containers, track suspicious user activity, and prioritize follow-up investigations. “Sysdig Sage is like having an extra team member. It surfaces where I need to focus that day and points me to the next steps instantly,” he said. In the absence of a formal SOC, Sysdig Sage compresses complex information, enabling rapid response. “Security isn’t known for being simple, but Sysdig Sage simplifies everything I do.”

Today, Sysdig supports continuous compliance, real-time detection, vulnerability management, and daily security operations, empowering a small team to protect highly sensitive healthcare systems with speed, accuracy, and confidence.