Fortune 100 Bank Averts Audit Crisis Through Environmental Separation with Illumio
Company Size
1,000+
Country
- United States
Product
- Illumio Adaptive Security Platform
Tech Stack
- Host-based segmentation
- Application firewalls
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
The customer is a Fortune 100 bank that operates on a global scale. The bank was facing compliance violations due to its inability to prove the separation of its development and production environments. This issue put the bank's business, credibility, and reputation at risk. The potential penalties for these violations included heavy fines and the cessation of its ability to trade on the Nikkei exchange. The bank had previously failed an audit after executing trades worth millions of dollars and was under pressure to deliver a solution by a specific deadline. The risk of repeated audit failure was a significant concern for the bank, and it was seeking a solution that would not require reconfiguring a major portion of its network or involve a heavy burden of infrastructure upgrades and re-IPing.
The Challenge
A Fortune 100 bank faced compliance violations for its inadequate ability to prove separation of development and production environments. Potential penalties included heavy fines and cessation of its ability to trade on the Nikkei exchange. The bank’s business, credibility, and reputation were at stake. They failed an audit after executing millions of dollars worth of trades and were under pressure to deliver by a specific timeline. The risk of repeated audit failure was everyone’s problem, but the bank didn’t have a clear solution. Network-based solutions meant reconfiguring a major portion of the network and involved a heavy burden of infrastructure upgrades and re-IPing. The significant fiscal and operational expenses of this approach were untenable – as was the service outage to the business.
The Solution
The bank’s infrastructure team saw the need for a host-based solution leveraging native application firewalls that follow the workload regardless of where it runs. But when they attempted a homegrown solution leveraging iptable batching, they struggled to scale it in the Windows portion of their environment. The bank chose the Adaptive Security Platform for its ability to segment development from production environments without requiring network changes. It is now fully automated and operated overseas by less than one full-time equivalent employee. The Illumio Adaptive Security Platform® uniquely protects critical information with real-time application dependency and vulnerability mapping coupled with micro-segmentation that works across any data center, public cloud, or hybrid cloud deployment on bare-metal, virtual machines, and containers.
Operational Impact
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