Case Study: Forbes 1000 Media Company achieves real-time actionable security metrics and reduced risk with Snowflake

Forbes 1000 Media Company Tracks Actionable Security Metrics Using Snowflake Security Data Lake

Forbes 1000 Media Company, a global provider of news and professional information, needed to turn massive, siloed machine-data into reliable security KPIs so leadership could measure and reduce cyber risk. Their legacy platform couldn’t handle semi-structured data, forced manual, spreadsheet-based audits, and produced delayed, unreliable insights—leaving the CISO and teams without timely key risk indicators across a fast-changing environment.

The company built a security data lake on Snowflake (on AWS) as a single source of truth, quickly ingesting JSON and other feeds from S3 with Tasks and Streams, centralized RBAC, and automated pipelines. That platform enabled self-service executive dashboards, near-real-time KRIs, automated alerts (via SnowAlert) and remediation workflows, giving cross-functional teams accurate, actionable security metrics, faster audits, and measurable reductions in risk.