Case Study: Reece Group achieves 85% reduction in firewall rules and faster change requests with AlgoSec

Reece Group - Customer Case Study

Reece Group, a leading plumbing, waterworks and HVAC-R distributor with 800 branches across Australia, New Zealand and the United States, faced limited business alignment and visibility into its multi‑vendor hybrid network—especially during third‑party firewall upgrades and migrations—and struggled to understand what security rules were in place and which services they affected.

To address this, Reece implemented AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer, FireFlow and AlgoBot ChatOps to gain baseline compliance, automated change workflows and clear risk visibility. The tools let developers check firewall status in Slack, cut troubleshooting and change turnaround (firewall changes now take under two hours), reduced the ruleset by 85% (3,000 to 450), and freed administrators to focus on business‑critical projects while providing easy‑to‑use dashboards for risk and compliance.

Reece Group

Michael West

IT Security Administrator