Fortune 10 Energy & Chemical Manufacturer Seamlessly Migrates from on-prem to Zero Trust Cloud
iboss delivers a Zero Trust cloud security solution that readily adapts to future changes — all while reducing costs and complexity.
Fortune 10 Energy & Chemical Manufacturer Case Study
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Key Statistics
Overview
As one of the world's largest publicly traded energy providers and chemical manufacturers, this organization develops and applies next-generation technologies to help safely and responsibly meet the world's growing needs for energy and high-quality chemical products. An industry leader in almost every aspect of the energy and chemical manufacturing businesses, they operate facilities or market products in most of the world's countries, explore for oil and natural gas on six continents, and research and develop next-generation technologies to help meet the dual challenge of fueling global economies while addressing the risks of climate change.
Fortune 10 Energy & Chemical Manufacturer's Challenge
Explosive bandwidth, mobility and SaaS cloud application growth makes an appliance-based approach to network security unsustainable. The organization leveraged traditional proxy appliances, which are ineffective at securing users and devices that are no longer bound by network boundaries. The organization experienced slow connections that prevented users from working effectively in remote locations, leading to challenges for their IT team as equal protection could not be applied to users in the same manner between the office and the road.
This dynamic, enterprise organization was a forward-thinking technology and security innovator moving to complete Zero Trust network model, previously structured with traditional firewall & web gateway proxy appliances at network perimeter edges. They needed a cloud-based SaaS network security solution that could apply and deliver fast, secure connections in the most remote locations of the world without appliances or infrastructure, including full-stream packet capture capabilities, SaaS delivered, capable of storing months of raw packet capture for security review.
Fortune 10 Energy & Chemical Manufacturer's iboss Solution
With an extensive feature-set required by the most demanding enterprises, only iboss cloud can transition all of the capabilities found in traditional web gateway proxies and network firewall appliances to the cloud. iboss has infinite compute capabilities and can handle any bandwidth load with its containerized horizontally scaling design. Instead of buying or renewing proxy appliances, the organization switched to iboss to solve remote work issues with ease.
With iboss, the organization's IT team was able to create filtering policies, malware prevention rules and data loss prevention policies that protect users without worrying about how that policy will make it to the user. iboss was chosen as the organization's core global cloud-based SaaS proxy and firewall solution after extensive capability and security efficacy testing against competitors. All network security functions traditionally delivered via the on-prem firewall and proxy appliances were ported over to iboss platform, with packet capture fully delivered through the containerized cloud architecture, and hard-to-reach remote users (for example, in China) connected to the iboss platform for security and consistent security policy.
The increase in mobile workforces, corporate data residing across multiple public clouds and the increased threat of cyber-attacks has created an urgent need to transition security to the cloud to protect corporate data. We created one of the worlds largest purpose built security clouds designed to seamlessly protect our data and employees in this dynamic technology landscape.
Key Results for Fortune 10 Energy & Chemical Manufacturer
- iboss delivered 100% of firewall and web gateway proxy security functions via cloud
- Global coverage provided for all users regardless of location, including remote regions like China
- Containerized cloud architecture delivered required data isolation including geo-zoning for GDPR
- Reduced costs and complexity of IT maintenance significantly
- Fast and secure Internet access delivered on any device, from any location, at any scale
Highlights
- iboss chosen as the organization's core cloud-based SaaS proxy and firewall solution globally after extensive capability & security efficacy testing against competitors
- All network security functions traditionally delivered via on-prem firewall and proxy appliances were ported over to iboss platform
- Packet capture was fully delivered and made possible via the containerized cloud architecture of the iboss platform
- Hard-to-reach remote users (ex. China), were also connected to the iboss platform for security and a consistent security policy
- iboss cloud's unique zero trust and IP restriction capabilities in the cloud increased security posture
- Seamless transition from on-prem network security appliances to network security in the cloud provided full visibility and control needed to secure remote workers
- Created one of the world's largest purpose built security clouds designed to seamlessly protect data and employees