Case Study: Discovery achieves cloud-first transformation and secure multi-cloud innovation with Rapid7 InsightCloudSec

Rapid7 Enables Innovation in the Cloud Without Compromise

Discovery, Inc., the global media company behind brands like Discovery Channel, Food Network and MotorTrend, faced a rapidly changing streaming landscape in 2016 and needed to modernize to accelerate content development and distribution. The challenge was to become cloud‑first across a complex, multi‑brand enterprise while preserving security, compliance and avoiding vendor lock‑in, enabling business units to move quickly without creating enterprise chaos.

Over an 18‑month transformation, Discovery shifted IT from day‑to‑day operations to strategic governance, chose InsightCloudSec (Rapid7) to enforce top‑down policies across multiple clouds, and embraced automation to remediate issues and notify the right teams. The result: all major offerings run in the public cloud across 240+ environments with 7,000+ compute instances and 44 PB of data, rapid integration of the Scripps acquisition in under a year, and new consumer products like Food Network Kitchen and MotorTrend—faster innovation with security and compliance intact.

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