Case Study: Ottawa County achieves automated compliance and threat detection with Blumira

To reduce manual log review, Ottawa County turned to Blumira's automated, easy-to-use detection and response platform

Ottawa County, a state and local government organization in Michigan, needed a simple and affordable way to improve security monitoring across a complex IT environment while meeting CJIS, IRS Pub 1075, and HIPAA compliance requirements. With a small IT team and hundreds of servers, switches, firewalls, and endpoints, the county struggled with the heavy manual effort required to review logs daily.

Blumira provided an easy-to-implement detection and response platform that connected with Ottawa County’s cloud and on-premises systems, including Microsoft Office 365, Duo Security, Cisco Umbrella, Cisco ASA, Windows, and Linux environments. Blumira helped the county detect threats faster, including password spraying and suspicious logins, and reduced manual log review significantly; Ottawa County said it would otherwise need a team of 100 to process logs manually, while Blumira enabled them to go live in days and focus only on meaningful alerts.

Ottawa County

Mike Morrow

Technical Infrastructure Manager