Case Study: Columbia College achieves dramatic efficiency gains and cuts query times from hours to minutes with LogPoint

Columbia College replaced a legacy SIEM solution with Logpoint and experienced dramatic improvements in efficiency

Columbia College, a private non‑profit liberal arts institution serving faculty, staff and students across 30 locations, was struggling with a legacy SIEM that was slow, couldn’t search older logs, required manual exports, didn’t normalize data from multiple sources, and had clunky dashboards and alerts. After evaluating options, the college selected LogPoint’s SIEM to replace the legacy solution.

LogPoint implemented a modern SIEM with normalized log ingestion, customizable dashboards and pre‑built alerts, plus responsive support that made deployment fast. The result was dramatic: analytics became near‑instant, a 30‑day VPN query that previously took hours now runs in under two minutes, the node‑based licensing suited the college’s environment, and LogPoint’s real‑time alerts enabled the team to detect mass login attempts and quickly lock a compromised alumni account.

Columbia College

Jason Youngquist

IT Security Engineer