Illumio Case Studies Global 250 Bank Deploys Illumio for Faster, Scalable SWIFT Compliance

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Global 250 Bank Deploys Illumio for Faster, Scalable SWIFT Compliance

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Virtual Private Cloud
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity Regulatory Compliance Monitoring
Services	Cybersecurity Services Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	A Global 250 bank was struggling with mandatory SWIFT compliance due to the complexity and time-consuming nature of building granular and consistent micro-segmentation policies using their standard firewall-based approach. The bank was also facing challenges such as security product overload, a rapidly changing threat landscape, scarcity of qualified security personnel, and the need to move into a hybrid cloud in a secure manner. The bank needed a more flexible and less complicated solution that could address their critical security, compliance, and data protection requirements without compromising the need to move at the speed of their global business spanning multiple continents and time zones. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a Global 250 bank that operates across multiple continents and time zones. The bank is facing mandatory SWIFT compliance and is struggling with building granular and consistent micro-segmentation policies using their standard firewall-based approach. The bank is also facing challenges such as security product overload, a rapidly changing threat landscape, scarcity of qualified security personnel, and the need to move into a hybrid cloud in a secure manner. The bank is looking for a more flexible and less complicated solution that can address their critical security, compliance, and data protection requirements without compromising the need to move at the speed of their global business. Read More
Solution	The bank decided to leverage Illumio's Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) to address their challenges. Illumio ASP provides banks with the speed they need for SWIFT compliance, combined with the defensibility and trust of a validated micro-segmentation strategy attested to by application owners. With a successful SWIFT deployment, the customer is now expanding Illumio into their software development life cycle environment to securely create isolated test environments for remote vendors. Illumio's micro-segmentation capabilities provided scalable and flexible segmentation between individual environments, a single segmentation solution for bare-metal, virtualized, on-premise, and cloud workloads, application segmentation with fine-grained control between application tiers, and segmentation between and within production and development environments. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Virtual Private Cloud

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Regulatory Compliance Monitoring

Services

Cybersecurity Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

A Global 250 bank was struggling with mandatory SWIFT compliance due to the complexity and time-consuming nature of building granular and consistent micro-segmentation policies using their standard firewall-based approach. The bank was also facing challenges such as security product overload, a rapidly changing threat landscape, scarcity of qualified security personnel, and the need to move into a hybrid cloud in a secure manner. The bank needed a more flexible and less complicated solution that could address their critical security, compliance, and data protection requirements without compromising the need to move at the speed of their global business spanning multiple continents and time zones.

About Customer

The customer is a Global 250 bank that operates across multiple continents and time zones. The bank is facing mandatory SWIFT compliance and is struggling with building granular and consistent micro-segmentation policies using their standard firewall-based approach. The bank is also facing challenges such as security product overload, a rapidly changing threat landscape, scarcity of qualified security personnel, and the need to move into a hybrid cloud in a secure manner. The bank is looking for a more flexible and less complicated solution that can address their critical security, compliance, and data protection requirements without compromising the need to move at the speed of their global business.

Solution

The bank decided to leverage Illumio's Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) to address their challenges. Illumio ASP provides banks with the speed they need for SWIFT compliance, combined with the defensibility and trust of a validated micro-segmentation strategy attested to by application owners. With a successful SWIFT deployment, the customer is now expanding Illumio into their software development life cycle environment to securely create isolated test environments for remote vendors. Illumio's micro-segmentation capabilities provided scalable and flexible segmentation between individual environments, a single segmentation solution for bare-metal, virtualized, on-premise, and cloud workloads, application segmentation with fine-grained control between application tiers, and segmentation between and within production and development environments.

Impact #1	The bank was able to achieve SWIFT compliance quickly and efficiently.
Impact #2	Illumio's solution provided the bank with the flexibility and agility needed for their DevOps IT approach.
Impact #3	The bank was able to secure their payment systems and control East-West data center traffic flows in compliance with SWIFT security controls.

Impact #1

The bank was able to achieve SWIFT compliance quickly and efficiently.

Impact #2

Illumio's solution provided the bank with the flexibility and agility needed for their DevOps IT approach.

Impact #3

The bank was able to secure their payment systems and control East-West data center traffic flows in compliance with SWIFT security controls.

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Global 250 Bank Deploys Illumio for Faster, Scalable SWIFT Compliance

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