Case Study: Smithfield Foods achieves secure AWS migration of public-facing sites with Barracuda Networks' CloudGen WAF

Global Food Company Undertakes Massive Cloud Migration Chooses AWS and Barracuda for Outward-Facing Web Presence

Smithfield Foods, a $14 billion global food company and the world’s largest pork producer with 52,000 employees, undertook a large-scale migration of all external-facing websites and applications to Amazon Web Services. The initiative required a secure, scalable solution to protect public-facing properties and support future e-commerce growth while moving away from outsourced datacenter hosting.

Smithfield selected the Barracuda CloudGen WAF for AWS, citing its tight AWS integration, ease of use, and strong value versus alternatives. Deployed and configured in a day via the AWS Marketplace, the WAF now standardizes security across internet-facing apps, supports auto-scaling, and has allowed the cloud migration to proceed smoothly with continued confidence in protection against cyber threats.

Smithfield Foods

Jeffrey Thomas

CTO