Case Study: a large insurance company achieves regulatory privacy compliance with OpenLegacy and BigID

A large insurance company achieves regulatory compliance with privacy laws

A large insurance company with 90 million customers needed to comply with privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA but was unable to access all the required sensitive data, which was locked in legacy mainframe VSAM files that were hard to reach from outside the system. They partnered with their vendor, BigID, and OpenLegacy to help extend their data management capabilities to these core systems.

OpenLegacy provided a solution using its VSAM adapter to parse COBOL copybooks and generate REST APIs, granting BigID easy access to the previously inaccessible data. This integration enabled complete regulatory compliance and allowed the company to identify and manage customer data across its entire environment. The measurable impact was significant, as new APIs leveraging 60 copybooks and VSAM files were created in just 3 weeks, a process that previously would have taken a minimum of 3 months.