Case Study: Virginia Tech automates external pentesting and streamlines remediation with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero

Virginia Tech secures 38,000 students with Horizon3.ai

Virginia Tech, a large decentralized university, needed a scalable way to validate external exposure and route security findings to the correct owners across its vast and federated environment. The challenge was operational, requiring a solution to connect pentesting to remediation without creating a disconnected process. They partnered with Horizon3.ai and used the NodeZero platform to address this.

Horizon3.ai's solution involved using the NodeZero GraphQL API to automate external pentesting through GitLab and directly route findings into ServiceNow. This created a repeatable workflow from attack validation to remediation, integrating security testing into existing engineering processes. The result was greater accountability across the decentralized environment, clear assignment for subnet owners, and a scalable process that allows their lean security team to efficiently manage external attack validation.

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