Case Study: Stowe Australia achieves malware-proof data centers with Illumio Secure Cloud

Stowe Australia Malware-Proofs Data Centers with Illumio Cloud

Stowe Australia, the country’s oldest and largest private electrical contractor, builds and operates data centers and “smart” IoT-enabled buildings for large enterprises. As their attack surface grew, traditional WAN/firewall zoning proved too coarse and too slow to maintain — Stowe needed more granular, scalable segmentation to stop malware and unauthorized lateral movement across servers, branches and applications.

Stowe deployed Illumio Secure Cloud, a host-based, cloud-managed segmentation solution that was up and running in a day and enforces labeled workload policies without changing underlying network infrastructure. The result: finer-grained, adaptive control that blocks East–West threats, improves visibility with an application dependency map, eliminates frequent manual firewall rule changes, and delivers stronger, cost‑effective protection and peace of mind.

Stowe Australia

Karl Houseman

Group Technology Officer