Case Study: Fairfax Media achieves rapid SaaS adoption and improved security with OneLogin

Fairfax Media Adopts SaaS Apps Quickly While Enhancing Security

Fairfax Media, a digitally progressive media company serving Australia and New Zealand with about 7,000 users, was struggling to keep up with rapid SaaS adoption. Their homegrown SSO required manually building SAML integrations, managing multiple Active Directory forests and domains, and left a risky, slow deprovisioning process that created stranded cloud accounts and heavy support overhead.

Fairfax implemented OneLogin’s unified directory with real-time AD sync, pre-integrated apps and network-aware MFA in about a week and a half. The change cut app rollout times from weeks to minutes or a day, enabled immediate disablement of cloud access across ~25 SaaS products, reduced support tickets (3,138 prior password resets) saving roughly AUD 40,000 and 500 hours, and improved productivity, perception and morale across the business.

Fairfax Media

Steven Christall

Director of Security