Case Study: Heffernan Insurance Brokers achieves rapid detection and prevention of network attacks with Blue Hexagon

Heffernan Insurance Brokers Stops Network Attacks With Blue Hexagon

Heffernan Insurance Brokers, a nationwide, employee-owned insurance firm headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, needed to protect critical client data and secure business-to-business transactions and remote access for its mobile sales teams. CIO John Petersen rejected traditional signature- and sandbox-based network defenses and evaluated alternatives, ultimately selecting Blue Hexagon’s Deep Learning–powered Network Security Platform to address gaps in rapid, accurate threat detection.

Blue Hexagon deployed deep learning models that inspect full network flows—payloads, headers, URLs, and C2 communications—and deliver threat inference in under a second, enabling prevention on firewalls, endpoints, and proxies. The platform quickly detected and neutralized an Emotet variant on a Heffernan server (and has identified threats such as Anatova and TrickBot), preventing potential ransomware delivery and business disruption; Heffernan’s security team and its cyber insurance carrier credited Blue Hexagon with materially reducing damage and preserving business continuity.

Heffernan Insurance Brokers

John Petersen

Chief Information Officer