Case Study: Major Oil and Gas Company achieves secure, zero-trust visibility across critical infrastructure with Bradford Networks

Major Oil and Gas Company Leads The Pack In Securing Critical Infrastructure With Network Access Control

Major Oil and Gas Company needed to secure 5,000 endpoints across 200 North American locations, including remote industrial control systems and legacy equipment that could not support 802.1x. The company turned to Bradford Networks for Network Access Control to prevent unknown or non-compliant devices from accessing the production network while maintaining uptime and visibility across highly distributed sites.

Bradford Networks implemented a centralized, vendor-agnostic NAC solution that worked with both new and legacy Cisco and HP switches without remote appliance installs or bandwidth-heavy setup. The result was full visibility into users, endpoints, and IoT devices, automated detection and quarantine of rogue devices, and a live network inventory that strengthened SIEM, IDS/IPS, and CMDB integrations. The solution was deployed in the first year, delivered robust control at a cost hundreds of thousands of dollars below competitors, and enabled the customer to plan expansion to its SCADA network.