Case Study: Western Digital achieves agile, secure M&A onboarding and reduced risk with Saviynt

Saviynt’s flexible architecture and intelligent capabilities helped Western Digital effectively manage its access and risk

Western Digital, a global data storage and solutions company with roughly 65,000 employees and 20,000 contingent workers, faced a cumbersome legacy identity environment that could not keep pace with frequent mergers and acquisitions. To centralize and modernize access management across diverse applications and identities, Western Digital selected Saviynt and deployed Saviynt’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform to provide a secure, flexible, and user-friendly identity solution.

Saviynt implemented the IGA solution in staged rollouts to streamline M&A onboarding, consolidate processes and platforms, and deliver centralized dashboard reporting and analytics. As a result of Saviynt’s deployment, Western Digital reduced the technical complexity of integrations during acquisitions, improved employee access experiences to business systems, and better managed and reduced identity risk through consolidated governance and actionable analytics.

Western Digital

Kum Chai Shin

Director, Information Security