Case Study: Malwarebytes achieves accelerated data exploration and product innovation with Snowflake

Malwarebytes Accelerating Data-Driven Malware Protection with Snowflake

Malwarebytes, a 500‑employee cybersecurity software company in Santa Clara, needed to elevate internal BI and enable new product capabilities but was hampered by a traditional data warehouse that required constant tuning and a full‑time DBA. So‑called cloud databases also failed to deliver true cloud benefits like decoupled storage/compute and usage‑based pricing, driving up headcount and infrastructure costs and slowing analytics velocity.

Malwarebytes migrated to Snowflake in a two‑week sprint, using Snowpipe to continuously ingest data from its Amazon S3 data lake and consolidating sources like Salesforce, Marketo, and NetSuite into a single analytics repository. The zero‑management, per‑second pricing model and native SQL support let data scientists query large semi‑structured datasets in near real time, accelerating data exploration and product innovation without adding DevOps headcount, while paving the way for future data sharing initiatives.

Malwarebytes

Darren Chinen

Sr. Director of Data Science and Engineering