Case Study: Leading Energy and Oil Company achieves seamless MFA deployment for 100,000+ employees and reduced maintenance costs with Axiad Cloud

Energy and Oil Global Leader Provides Innovative Mfa Solution To 100,000+ Employees With Axiad Cloud

Leading Energy and Oil Company, a global energy and oil leader with 100,000+ employees across 20,000 locations, was struggling with an aging PKI/MFA deployment of over 100,000 smart cards that drove rising maintenance costs, heavy help‑desk demand, and security risk for remote field workers. After evaluating options, the customer chose Axiad and its Axiad Cloud platform to modernize credential management without disrupting dispersed employees.

Axiad integrated Axiad Cloud with the company’s on‑prem CA and IAM, validated 400+ use cases, ran a two‑month pilot, and completed a phased global rollout in five months. The cloud SMARTidentity solution enabled remote credential updates via the Axiad User Portal, Airlock self‑help, MyCircle verification, and One‑Click issuance—protecting 100K+ employees, eliminating the need for IT visits or device shipping, reducing maintenance costs, and improving IT productivity while making it easy to scale to new authentication methods.