Case Study: NYC Cyber Command achieves faster threat detection and scalable security operations with Looker

NYC Cyber Command Keeping New York City's digital services more secure at massive scale

NYC Cyber Command, New York City’s centralized cyber defense organization, faced the challenge of protecting critical city systems while rapidly detecting, responding to, and recovering from cyber threats across more than 100 agencies. Using Looker’s data and analytics capabilities on Google Cloud as part of a cloud-first, zero-trust approach, the team needed a secure, scalable way to process massive security data volumes and deliver the right information quickly.

Looker helped NYC Cyber Command build a resilient, highly scalable data pipeline that ingests and analyzes data in near real time, enabling faster threat detection and response. The results included processing and analyzing data 10x faster, scaling to terabytes now and petabytes soon, and accelerating onboarding across all 100+ city agencies, all while helping a small team manage infrastructure more securely.

NYC Cyber Command

Colin Ahern

Deputy CISO for Security Sciences