How NineStar Elevated Cybersecurity Standards for Its Organization and Customers

Customer stories

Sep 09, 2024

NineStar Connect uses Pentera to continuously validate security controls, strengthen credential policies, and prioritize remediation with clear, step-by-step guidance. The platform’s insights improved CIS hardening, Active Directory configuration, and overall network hygiene, enabling the team to eliminate exploitable gaps before annual assessments. As a result, the organization significantly improved its penetration test performance and reduced its security risk rating from high to low.

Shira Dankner, Director of Security Services at NineStar Connect, a combined utility based in Greenfield, Indiana, shares how Pentera enables her team to elevate cybersecurity standards for both the organization and its customers.

Recognizing that many customers cannot afford expensive annual penetration tests, NineStar implemented Pentera Core and the Ransomware Module to continuously validate security controls, test credential strength, and identify exploitable weaknesses. The platform’s clear attack path visualization and remediation wiki provide step-by-step guidance, allowing teams to prioritize critical issues instead of navigating overwhelming reports. Insights from Pentera have driven improvements in CIS-based hardening, Active Directory configuration, group policy management, and ongoing network hygiene.

As a result, NineStar systematically eliminated low- and medium-risk exposures, significantly improved its annual penetration test results, and reduced its security rating from high risk to low risk, all while increasing operational efficiency and customer value.