Case Study
City of Sioux Falls Achieves Over 90% Operational Savings and Minimizes Risk of Data Breach with Polaris Sonar
City of Sioux Falls Achieves Over 90% Operational Savings and Minimizes Risk of Data Breach with Polaris Sonar
The City of Sioux Falls adopted Rubrik Polaris Sonar to improve visibility and control over sensitive employee and citizen data as its growing population created increasing data sprawl. Previously, sensitive-data discovery required complex scripts, spreadsheets, multiple engineers, and 40–80 man-hours, with individual searches taking one to two weeks. Polaris Sonar automated classification across file servers and reduced search time to about one hour, delivering more than 90% operational savings. The city identified overexposed credit card and Social Security numbers, enabling proactive remediation before a breach occurred. The SaaS application was operational in under 30 minutes without additional infrastructure and continuously monitors existing backup data without agents or production i
