Case Study: Large European Bank achieves fast, compliant network segmentation with Guardicore

Large European Bank Selects Guardicore to Reduce Security and Compliance Costs

Large European Bank, a multinational financial services company operating across more than 50 countries, needed to strengthen its compliance posture and reduce the risk of flat networks across its data center and cloud environments. Facing regulatory pressure from multiple authorities and internal concerns about breach impact and operational errors, the bank sought a better way to achieve workload segmentation and environment separation. Guardicore’s Centra Security Platform was evaluated as a modern alternative to traditional firewall rules and VLANs.

Guardicore implemented micro-segmentation across on-premises, cloud, and container environments with no application changes or production downtime. The bank used Guardicore’s visibility, application dependency mapping, and auto-generated policies to isolate development, test, and production environments, address more than 10,000 non-compliant assets, and complete the project 10x faster than expected in less than three months. Guardicore also helped automate segmentation into DevOps and ServiceNow workflows, improving security posture and lowering implementation costs.