Case Study: Powerco achieves seamless, secure remote working in four days with Zscaler

Powerco energises remote working in record time with Zscaler™

Powerco, a New Zealand electricity and gas distributor serving about 1.1 million customers with roughly 450 staff, needed to replace a legacy on-prem VPN and web-filtering as part of a move to an internet-only, zero-trust network. The existing VPN was unreliable, scaled to only half the workforce, and required manual tweaks—challenges that became urgent when COVID-19 forced widespread remote working.

Powerco deployed Zscaler Internet Access and Zscaler Private Access with Zscaler Professional Services, moved key applications off the intranet behind a secure portal, and completed a company-wide rollout in four days. The outcome was seamless, secure remote access for all staff, much faster application publishing (minutes versus a day), CrowdStrike endpoint integration for conditional access, improved security posture, and anticipated cost savings.

PowerCo

Aaron Gayton

Chief Information Security Officer