Case Study: W. R. Grace & Co. secures cloud SD‑WAN and protects Office 365 users with Check Point Software's Harmony solutions

Global Chemical Manufacturer Grace Secures Cloud Digital Transformation with Check Point Harmony Solutions

Grace, a global specialty chemicals leader founded in 1854 with 18 plants serving customers in 40+ countries, was moving from an MPLS, on‑premises WAN to cloud services like Office 365, AWS and Salesforce. The company needed a cloud‑ready SD‑WAN that reduced latency, supported direct Internet egress, met cybersecurity requirements (URL filtering, IPS, HTTPS inspection), and protected ~5,000 SaaS users from increasing phishing and account‑takeover attacks while improving IT efficiency.

Grace deployed a VMware VeloCloud SD‑WAN alongside Check Point Harmony Connect for cloud‑hosted network threat prevention and Harmony Office & Email for advanced SaaS/email protection. The combined solution delivered a single, consistent security policy across branches, allowed new sites to be deployed in under five minutes, was operationally simple (Harmony Office & Email was onboarded in about an hour), immediately blocked large volumes of phishing, and freed IT staff to focus on strategic work.

W. R. Grace & Co.

David Antlitz

Global Manager, Security and Firewall Technologies