Case Study: City of Marietta, Georgia improves threat detection and cuts security response time with IBM Security QRadar

Advanced security intelligence solution deployed to expose and stop credible threats

The City of Marietta, Georgia, a municipality serving approximately 57,000 citizens, faced the challenge of defending its public-facing digital presence from a continual assault of malicious activity. This relentless threat volume taxed its small security team, requiring constant and resource-intensive vigilance to manage everything from simple network irregularities to serious security breaches. To address this, they worked with vendor IBM to implement a security intelligence solution.

IBM deployed a sophisticated solution integrating its QRadar SIEM, QRadar Log Manager, and X-Force Threat Intelligence. This system helped the city identify and isolate the most severe threats from millions of weekly events, centralizing surveillance into a single view. The results were significant: IBM's solution reduced security response time by 40%, cut hours spent on security issues by 18%, and helped the city save 50% in security labor resources and costs.

City of Marietta Georgia