Ixom Achieves Secure Segmentation Across Environments with Illumio
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- Pacific
Country
- Australia
Product
- Illumio’s Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)
Tech Stack
- Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
- Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries
- Chemicals
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Ixom is a leading industrial chemical manufacturer based in Melbourne. The company has a portfolio of global businesses across various geographies. Ixom's IT infrastructure includes cloud data centers, on-premise servers, and brownfield applications. The company was facing challenges in securing its legacy applications that require unsupported platforms for continued operations. Additionally, Ixom wanted to harden its critical IT infrastructure to decrease the risk from vulnerabilities. The company had recently transitioned from Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) routing to a Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), which allowed its core IT team to decouple controls from the network for more agility and effectiveness.
The Challenge
Ixom, a leading industrial chemical manufacturer based in Melbourne, faced multiple IT challenges securing legacy applications that require unsupported platforms for continued operations, as well as the desire to network harden critical IT infrastructure to decrease the risk from vulnerabilities. With a portfolio of global businesses across geographies, cloud infrastructure was critical to gaining efficiencies. Yet governing cloud environments posed its own security challenges. A transition from Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) routing to a Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) allowed Ixom’s core IT team to decouple controls from the network for more agility and effectiveness. Adopting a Zero Trust security approach, they sought a whitelisting solution to limit exposure by preventing unauthorized access to any system. But manual methods proved untenable, both to architect and maintain.
The Solution
Ixom chose SaaS-based Illumio ASP to enforce Zero Trust across environments, allowing them to safely ringfence vulnerable applications from their other systems and gain visibility and control in the cloud. Deployment of the agent took two days. Ixom first locked down standard traffic before looking for anomalous behavior and working with application owners to remediate; they then modeled policy changes prior to enforcement in order to avoid any disruption. “We change behavior, install the new way, and easily find the people not adopting it before we turn things off. The visibility into policy modeling prevents risk because we know the impact of changes before we enforce.”
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