Case Study: ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) strengthens security and boosts productivity with F5 Networks

Canadian Insurance Giant ICBC Strengthens Security, Boosts Productivity with F5 Solution

ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia), which supports more than three million motorists and runs about 125 applications on 1,200 servers, needed stronger security, simpler IT management, faster application deployment, and better visibility into apps. To address those challenges it turned to F5 Networks, deploying the BIG-IP platform (including BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP DNS) along with iApps and iRules to provide SSL decryption, intelligent traffic management, and a foundation for layered security.

F5 Networks offloaded SSL processing, centralized application visibility and streamlined deployments so ICBC can deploy applications predictably and troubleshoot from a single view. The deployment cut configuration time dramatically (BIG-IP LTM configured in about half an hour versus days previously), enabled hardware consolidation (often one box replacing three or four), increased team productivity, and reduced costs—saving up to 65% through the F5 Best pricing model—while delivering stronger security and faster application delivery.

ICBC

Stan Hembrough

Senior Technical Specialist