Case Study: Global 250 Bank achieves fast, scalable SWIFT compliance with Illumio ASP

Global 250 Bank Deploys Illumio for Faster, Scalable SWIFT Compliance

A Global 250 bank needed to meet mandatory SWIFT security controls across 25 virtual machines in three data centers on two continents but found its firewall‑centric approach too slow and unwieldy. Iterating complex firewall rules, managing more hardware, and staffing constraints conflicted with the bank’s DevOps pace and hybrid‑cloud plans, so it sought a simpler, more flexible way to enforce granular, consistent micro‑segmentation.

The bank deployed Illumio’s Adaptive Security Platform, using its infrastructure‑agnostic application dependency map to quickly discover dependencies, let application owners author and validate fine‑grained policies, and segment SWIFT workloads without bulky data‑center firewalls. The result was fast, scalable micro‑segmentation with consistent policy across bare‑metal, VMs and cloud, reduced operational overhead, quicker SWIFT compliance, and expansion into secure, isolated test environments for development and vendors.