Case Study: Frankfurter Volksbank achieves regulatory compliance and stronger security with Illumio Core

Frankfurter Volksbank Invests in Illumio for Compliance Success

Frankfurter Volksbank is a cooperative universal bank serving 250,000 members and 600,000 retail and commercial customers in Germany’s Rhine-Main region. Facing strict BaFin requirements (KWG, MaRisk, BAIT) and ISO 2700x standards, the bank needed complete network visibility and effective segmentation of systems and applications, and found traditional network approaches could not meet those compliance and risk-management demands.

The bank deployed Illumio Core for host-based micro-segmentation and native OS firewall enforcement, moving rapidly from proof of concept to production with no operational disruption. Illumio’s testing and automation simplified policy creation, while real-time application dependency and vulnerability maps gave auditors and the IT team clear, on-demand visibility; the result was maintained regulatory compliance, stronger application ringfencing and environmental separation, and a markedly improved security posture with reduced operational risk.

Frankfurter Volksbank

Steffen Nagel

Head of Information Technology