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How SecurityScorecard Saved $1M+ in TCO by switching from Hosted Kafka to Confluent Cloud

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How SecurityScorecard saved $1M+ (in TCO) while amplifying data processing by 100x

Hosted Kafka services promise simplicity and cost savings. But many teams discover hidden operational costs that don't appear on cloud bills: engineers pulled away from feature development for manual upgrades and patches, days spent troubleshooting and scaling clusters, and infrastructure complexity that scales poorly with business needs.

If your team is facing similar challenges—or if you're evaluating whether to migrate from hosted Kafka—this webinar is designed for you.

Join Brandon Brown, Senior Engineering Manager at SecurityScorecard, as he shares the technical and business realities of their switch from a hosted Kafka service to Confluent Cloud. You'll get practical insights from real-world experiences, learn about the challenges they faced and how they overcame them, and discover lessons that will help inform your own infrastructure decisions

What You'll Take Away

  • Uncover Hidden Costs: Identify the operational expenses of hosted Kafka that don't appear on your cloud bill
  • See Real Results: Learn how SecurityScorecard achieved $1M+ in total savings through their switch and subsequent optimization
  • Performance Transformation: Understand the leap from processing data in days to real-time stream processing
  • Planning Your Switch: Get practical approaches for planning and executing your own move to Confluent Cloud

What SecurityScorecard Achieved – And What You Can Too

  • Dramatic Cost Reduction: 48% reduction in projected annual operating costs
  • Massive Scale Improvements: 100x amplification in data ingestion and processing
  • Vendor Consolidation Savings: $1M+ savings from operational efficiency improvements
  • Real-Time Processing: Eliminated week-long batch jobs for instant insights

"I definitely saved days of management every week just by not having to do anything to make sure our Connect cluster is working. With Confluent Cloud, it just works." — Brandon Brown, SecurityScorecard

Can't attend live? Register anyway to receive the recording and resources.

Bonus: New Confluent Cloud users who register for this webinar can claim $400 in free credits for a 30-day trial—perfect for testing your own migration from hosted Kafka. Details in your registration confirmation email.

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Bharath Chari Director, Product Marketing, Confluent

Bharath leads the go-to-market product marketing team at Confluent. He has played an integral role in launching several end-to-end campaigns and GTM motions to generate market awareness and drive demand for Confluent’s platform. He holds an MBA from the McCombs School of Business.

Brandon BrownSenior Engineering Manager, SecurityScorecard

Brandon Brown is a Senior Engineering Manager at SecurityScorecard where he leads the team who provide the scores at the core of our ratings platform. These scores guide cybersecurity leaders worldwide in reducing their risk and addressing risk in their vendors. His team also drives secure data sharing and advances company-wide adoption of streaming technologies. With 10+ years of experience in software development, Brandon has experience across the full SDLC specializing in Data Pipelines over the last 8+ years. His language of choice is Scala but he has a soft spot for SQL. He’s contributed to top open source projects such as Debezium and was an early contributor to the ZIO ecosystem. He’s passionate about Kafka and Hybrid Data Pipeline strategies. Outside of work he’s helping raise his young son and catching live music or talking about movies