Case Study: Bow Valley College cuts vulnerability detection and remediation to under one week with Rapid7 InsightVM

Why Bow Valley College Gives Rapid7 InsightVM High Marks for Vulnerability Management

Bow Valley College, a multi-campus institution in Calgary, faced gaps in its vulnerability management as a small IT team struggled with hundreds of alerts, inconsistent assessments for new servers, and limited visibility across on-prem and cloud systems. James Cairns, the college’s database administrator, needed a way to prioritize risks, streamline patching, and clearly report progress to leadership.

By adopting Rapid7 InsightVM, the team gained a single dashboard with agent-based visibility, asset grouping, CIS benchmarking, and prioritized risk scoring, enabling fast, targeted remediation and executive-ready KPI reports. The result: detection-to-remediation time dropped to under a week, routine micro-projects and visible ROI for security work, and plans to further automate remediation via a ServiceNow integration.

Bow Valley College

James Cairns

Database Administrator