Case Study: Cedar achieves better security visibility and faster detection with Panther Labs

Cedar Scales Security and Gains Better Visibility with Panther

Cedar, a healthcare technology company serving more than 10 million patients a year, needed a better way to unify security data, improve monitoring, and meet strict compliance requirements as its cloud footprint and log volumes grew. Its existing SIEM and open-source tools struggled to keep up with disparate data sources, making it difficult to map alerts to business needs and limiting visibility. Cedar turned to Panther Labs and its detections-as-code approach to modernize security operations.

Using Panther Labs, Cedar centralized security logs in a scalable data lake, normalized data for better visibility, and built custom Python-based detections integrated into a CI/CD workflow. Panther’s real-time detection engine and Slack alerting helped Cedar catch previously hidden risks, cut new alert creation time from two weeks to just 1–2 days, and reduce false positives by 80%.

Cedar

Aaron Zollman

Chief Information Security Officer