Case Study: General Electric achieves $30M annual savings and faster, secure global connectivity with Zscaler

General Electric - Customer Case Study

General Electric, a global industrial leader with 425,000 active users across 4,000 locations in more than 180 countries and roughly 3.5 billion transactions a day, faced an increasingly complex, costly network as applications and data moved to the cloud and usage surged. The legacy architecture struggled to keep pace with performance demands and security — GE was confronting about 50,000 cyberattacks daily — prompting CTO Chris Drumgoole to seek a simpler, more secure connectivity model.

GE replaced its corporate network with a direct-to-internet architecture using Zscaler and SD‑WAN, delivering identical security for office, remote, and mobile users while eliminating wasted bandwidth and VPN hairpinning. The change reduced manual network configuration, improved user experience and security posture, increased capacity by 35%, cut latency by 80%, and produced annualized savings of up to $30 million.

General Electric

Chris Drumgoole

Chief Technology Officer