Case Study: Oerlikon Group achieves a 50% reduction in patch time and management-level cyber risk visibility with Balbix

Oerlikon Reduces Patch Time and Improves Management-Level Cyber Risk Visibility With Balbix

Oerlikon Group, a global manufacturing company with over 10,000 employees across 179 locations, needed a risk-based way to secure a widely distributed IT estate. CISO Daniel Gisler sought a solution to get a comprehensive, near‑real‑time asset inventory, detect vulnerabilities (weak/reused passwords, missing encryption, obsolete software), assign owners for remediation, and cut mean time to resolve from months to days — and engaged Balbix to provide real‑time security posture and vulnerability prioritization.

Balbix was deployed across Oerlikon Group data centers in North America, Europe, and Asia, discovering tens of thousands of managed and unmanaged assets, continuously monitoring 100+ attack vectors, and assigning risk owners to dynamic asset groups. As a result, Balbix enabled 3x more assets to be identified, reduced mean time to patch by 50%, and simplified management reporting via the Balbix CISO Dashboard while delivering prioritized, actionable remediation guidance.

Oerlikon Group

Daniel Gisler

Chief Info Sec Officer