Case Study: Mountain Equipment Co-op achieves faster, simpler security management with Scalar Decisions

Mountain Equipment Co-op Manages Through Difficult Security Upgrade with Scalar Security Consulting Services

Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), the Vancouver-based outdoor retail co-operative, needed to replace a security solution that was costly and time-consuming to maintain. The team at MEC struggled with manual updates across store sites, limited application visibility, and difficulty prioritizing and controlling cloud traffic. They turned to Scalar Decisions and its security consulting services to help modernize their security environment.

Scalar Decisions delivered a multi-phased engagement that included product training, network conversion, architecture and design workshops, deployment, and knowledge transfer. The new solution provided centralized management, templates for consistent rollout, improved application visibility, and QoS controls, while Scalar also helped troubleshoot a persistent appliance failure by isolating ARP traffic and finding an obscure configuration error. MEC said the new template functionality and careful design enabled them to roll out appliances faster than before, cutting the time and effort required to maintain and update their security infrastructure.

Mountain Equipment Co-op

David Greekas

Manager of It Infrastructure