Case Study: Pacific Gas and Electric Company achieves 76% risk reduction with Tripwire IP360 (Tripwire)

Pacific Gas and Electric Company - Customer Case Study

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is one of the largest natural gas and electric utilities in the U.S., serving about 15 million people across a 70,000‑square‑mile service area in California. Facing strict regulation and growing threats, PG&E needed to redefine information security by centralizing functions, setting enterprise‑wide policy and standards, and creating an objective, real‑time method to measure and track tactical security risk with a target of reducing network security risk by 40%.

PG&E implemented Tripwire IP360 to produce high‑impact, actionable security measurements and automate assessments. Within the first year they achieved a greater than 76% overall risk reduction, gained complete visibility into hosts, applications and vulnerabilities, established accurate risk tracking over time, automated compliance checks, and were able to shift focus toward external security intelligence—making their security and risk management teams more effective and efficient.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Seth Bromberger

Manager, Information Systems Security, Chief Information Officer