Case Study: Pacific Life achieves streamlined cloud security and faster, compliant deployments with Check Point Software's CloudGuard Dome9

Cloudguard Dome9 Helps Pacific Life Streamline Security Complexity in the Cloud

Pacific Life, a Fortune 500 insurance company, began migrating Retirement Solutions workloads to AWS in 2013. A small security team of three struggled with growing cloud complexity—over 150 security groups across seven accounts and strict regulatory and data‑residency requirements—making it difficult to manage security, ensure compliance, and scale without expanding staff.

By deploying CloudGuard Dome9 for continuous monitoring, automated enforcement and rollback, visual topology (Clarity), compliance auditing, and region/tamper locks, Pacific Life centralized and automated cloud security while enabling secure DevOps practices. The outcome was faster, more reliable deployments, enforced separation of duties, the ability to burst cost‑efficiently to 2,000 instances, fewer manual errors, and $1.1M in reported savings in 2016.

Pacific Life

Reza Salari

Manager of Information Security and Telemetry, Retirement Solutions Division