Case Study: Leading Energy Company achieves secure Work-From-Anywhere and cost savings with Versa Networks

Top Energy Firm Achieves Comprehensive “Work-From-Anywhere” with Versa SASE

Leading Energy Company, a large global oil & gas firm with ~80,000 employees and nearly 500 sites, faced challenges supporting a mobile workforce and contractors: WFH users needed assured performance for a high‑bandwidth hosted voice application, private access to enterprise apps, and contractors required secure access to two different enterprise networks (a gap with their incumbent). They also required MFA, always‑on high availability, and a solution that would integrate with existing switching, Wi‑Fi and WAN optimization. The customer selected Versa Networks and its Versa SASE offering (including Secure SD‑WAN, Versa Secure Access and Versa NGFW) to address these needs.

Versa Networks deployed Versa SASE to provide Secure SD‑WAN, routing, embedded NGFW and private access, integrating with the firm’s existing infrastructure and replacing legacy NGFWs at ~400 branches. The customer purchased ~1,000 licenses; Versa now protects ~400 sites (with ~900 nodes at full deployment), including 200+ WFH users and ~40 offshore sites. The deployment delivered measurable cost reductions via license/product consolidation, improved control and visibility through multi‑tenancy and analytics, enhanced security with encrypted private access and NGFW, simplified operations, and positioned the Leading Energy Company for future transformation.