Case Study: Largest Freight Transportation Company simplifies access control for 175,000 users with Axiomatics

Fortune 500 Transportation Company Simplifies Access Control for 175,000 Users

Largest Freight Transportation Company, one of the largest freight transportation companies in the world, needed to simplify access control for over 175,000 user accounts. Its role-based approach had grown from 3,775 roles in 2013 to 54,000 groups and over 800,000 user assignments by 2016, creating duplicated data, inconsistent authorization decisions, and difficulty managing access at scale. The company chose Axiomatics Policy Server to replace its siloed authorization model.

With Axiomatics, the company implemented dynamic authorization using attribute based access control (ABAC), with centralized policies, externalized authorization, and consistent decision-making across applications. The result was a single service for authorization, improved performance for the CA Single Sign-On plugin, and better audit logging for troubleshooting and Sarbanes-Oxley and PII reporting.