Case Study: Cedar Health achieves faster search and greater security visibility with Snowflake

Cedar Health Experiences Faster Search and Greater Security Visibility with Snowflake and Panther

Cedar Health, a New York–based healthcare payments platform, needed to scale securely while breaking down siloed security data that lived outside the company’s central systems. Their existing Panther SIEM ran on another cloud backend (using Athena), which produced slow or failing queries during large event streams and reduced confidence in detection and incident response.

Cedar built a security data lake on Snowflake and used Panther as a connected application, keeping ownership of their security data and enabling secure sharing with product teams. The move delivered about 50% faster query times, an eightfold expansion of detections, consistent and accurate alerts, self-service analytics and faster custom detection deployment, plus automated DevSecOps guardrails and new opportunities for advanced analytics and AI/ML.

Cedar Health

TJ Smith

Lead SecOps Engineer