Case Study: au Kabucom Securities achieves Zero Trust security and eliminates VPN for improved protection and efficiency with Akamai Technologies

au Kabucom Accelerates Transformation to Zero Trust Security Model

au Kabucom, a Tokyo-based online brokerage serving over 1.1 million customers, shifted from perimeter-based defenses to a Zero Trust security model to address secure remote access, growing cloud use, and increasingly sophisticated attacks. The firm struggled with VPN-related issues—complex management, hardware and bandwidth strain, and potential vulnerabilities—that hindered secure, seamless access for remote workers.

To resolve this, au Kabucom deployed Akamai Enterprise Application Access alongside identity-as-a-service and Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector. The new approach eliminated the VPN, simplified and sped up application access, reduced bandwidth and hardware needs, and enabled immediate, cloud-updated malware blocking—improving security posture while lowering the operational burden on the security team.

au Kabucom Securities

Kenta Nakamura

CISSP, System Risk Management Department