Case Study: Fortune 20 Energy & Petroleum Company achieves 50% lower cybersecurity appliance costs with Big Switch Networks

How a Fortune 20 Energy & Petroleum Company Protects its Next-Gen Extranet with a Software Defined Security Fabric

The Fortune 20 Energy & Petroleum Company needed a more flexible, secure extranet to connect more than 20 global locations as cloud providers and cybersecurity demands increased. Its legacy design was too rigid to add or remove tools without outages, and it also relied on costly duplicate appliances for monitoring and protection. Big Switch Networks’ Big Monitoring Fabric™ Inline (Big Mon Inline) was selected to support the new software-defined security fabric.

Big Switch Networks implemented Big Mon Inline across multiple sites worldwide, along with tools such as SSL visibility, IPS, and threat protection platforms, giving the company centralized control and granular traffic steering. The result was faster agility, improved monitoring and compliance, easier management through a single interface, and a 50% reduction in third-party appliance costs, while achieving scalable DMZ security across 20+ global data centers.