Case Study: Schuberg Philis achieves PCI-DSS compliance with Isovalent and Cilium

Achieving PCI-DSS Compliance With Isovalent, Cilium, and Zero Trust

Schuberg Philis, a Dutch IT company serving mission-critical industries, needed to migrate a payment processor’s PCI-DSS-compliant workloads from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud while maintaining strict compliance. The customer processes millions of transactions daily and required a cloud-native environment with zero-trust networking, multi-tenancy, and minimal operational overhead. Schuberg Philis worked with Isovalent and Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium to meet these requirements.

Isovalent implemented Cilium with default deny policies, transparent encryption, enhanced observability through Hubble and Hubble Timescape, and egress gateway traffic engineering to support secure cloud operations. The result was a PCI-DSS-compliant container platform with stronger security, better visibility, and easier policy management for developers and platform teams. Schuberg Philis also reported that, in one incident, Cilium helped its team identify the source of problematic traffic in just 15 minutes, underscoring the operational impact of Isovalent’s solution.

Schuberg Philis

Stephen Hoekstra

Mission Critical Engineer