Case Study: Woodforest National Bank reduces cyber threat response time with Exabeam

Exabeam Helps Woodforest Bank Reduce the Time It Takes to Respond to Cyber Threats

Woodforest National Bank, founded in 1980 with more than 750 branches across 17 states and over a million customers (and Walmart’s largest retail partner), faced the challenge of closing the gap between detecting and responding to cyber threats while avoiding alert fatigue and meeting strict financial‑industry regulations. Their legacy SIEM lacked modern automation, SOAR and behavioral analytics, leaving the team unable to reliably surface real threats or efficiently investigate incidents.

Woodforest adopted Exabeam’s cloud‑based SIEM (including Cloud Connectors, Cloud Analytics, Entity Analytics and Cloud Case Manager) to remove infrastructure overhead, integrate with their data lake, and add behavioral analytics and automated workflows. Exabeam immediately detected penetration tests the legacy system missed, reduced noisy alerts into actionable incidents, sped investigations and response, and returned time to the security team—delivering increased visibility, repeatable processes and stronger threat‑hunting capabilities.

Woodforest National Bank

Marc Crudgington

Chief Information Security Officer