Case Study: QBE Insurance Group achieves rapid Zero Trust and reduced risk with Illumio

QBE Strengthens Zero Trust Posture with Illumio

QBE, a 135‑year‑old global insurer operating across Australia, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America, faced rising ransomware risk and escalating complexity as it moved to hybrid multi‑cloud environments. Traditional physical and virtual firewalls proved labor‑intensive and hard to manage, so the company prioritized a Zero Trust approach and needed efficient micro‑segmentation to reduce risk and operational overhead.

QBE implemented Illumio Core to gain real‑time visibility and software‑based micro‑segmentation; its application dependency maps and infrastructure‑independent policies let security follow workloads and be tested before enforcement. The deployment brought production assets under control in months (not years), sped firewall changes from days/weeks to minutes/hours, reduced lateral‑movement risk, improved security/app team alignment, and provided a scalable path to Zero Trust.

QBE Insurance Group

Andrew Dell

Chief Information Security Officer