Case Study: Premier Cooperative achieves live visibility and faster issue resolution with Forcepoint NGFW

Premier Cooperative - Customer Case Study

Premier Cooperative, an Illinois farmer-owned agricultural cooperative, stores sensitive customer and grain-marketing data on-site. After two crypto‑locker incidents and ongoing problems with dated Java/Flash software, the team found their incumbent firewall difficult to configure and lacking live visibility and useful logging, making security and troubleshooting slow and risky.

Premier paired CrowdStrike antivirus with Forcepoint NGFW after a six‑month evaluation and trial supported by a dedicated Forcepoint engineer. The NGFW delivered live traffic monitoring, color-coded logs and drag‑and‑drop rule creation, cutting diagnosis time from an hour to minutes, reclaiming about 10% of bandwidth through application controls, and providing stronger integration, manageability and security efficacy.

Premier Cooperative

Jonathan Pate

Head Network Security Administrator