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SaaS Provider Transforms Security Automation in New Data Center with Illumio
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries
- Software
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
A Fortune 1000 enterprise SaaS provider sought to secure a new greenfield data center without restricting application traffic for its automated compute environment. The stakes and costs for a new data center were high. Complex automation was critical to this SaaS provider’s current and future plans, including public cloud. In automated environments, DevOps cannot accept any solution that breaks automation or slows down their work, which is essential to keeping billions of dollars of revenue flowing. Customer SLAs (spelled out in contracts) cannot be violated without financial penalty. This created tension between automation and contractual obligations. Security architects needed to transform an operationally unsustainable system – one that required supporting five different segmentation solutions including firewalls, Calico, VMware NSX, and switches. Every time the organization adopted a new technology, they adopted a new segmentation solution, which made them have to build their own backend to synchronize all of the different solutions. This created security sprawl.
About The Customer
The customer is a Fortune 1000 enterprise SaaS provider. They are in the process of securing a new greenfield data center without restricting application traffic for its automated compute environment. The stakes and costs for a new data center are high for them. Complex automation is critical to this SaaS provider’s current and future plans, including public cloud. In automated environments, their DevOps team cannot accept any solution that breaks automation or slows down their work, which is essential to keeping billions of dollars of revenue flowing. They have customer SLAs (spelled out in contracts) that cannot be violated without financial penalty. This has created tension between automation and contractual obligations.
The Solution
Illumio’s Adaptive Security Platform® offered a policy model that aligned with the organization’s granular segmentation needs – it integrated with all of the disparate technology stacks, allowed better control and faster provisioning. The SaaS provider tested every automated workflow during an intensive pilot that included provisioning 5,000 workloads and converging policy well within acceptable SLAs. Cost and architectural needs aligned, the deployment plan met project specifications, and organizational consensus emerged organically as requirements for each team were fulfilled – including collapsing five segmentation work centers down to one. New scalable capabilities helped the SaaS provider transition to its desired future state with containers and public cloud.
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