Case Study: West Fraser achieves rapid Zero Trust transformation and speeds M&A onboarding with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange

West Fraser Embarks on Zero Trust Transformation and Speeds M&A Onboarding with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange

West Fraser Timber, one of the world’s largest diversified wood products companies and North America’s largest lumber producer, operates 8,000+ employees across ~50 locations. Rapid growth through acquisitions created a pressing challenge: simplify secure remote access and dramatically shorten time-to-productivity for employees at newly acquired companies.

By deploying Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange (including ZIA and ZPA), West Fraser implemented zero-trust work-from-anywhere access globally within weeks, cutting M&A access provisioning from weeks to hours. The solution filtered ~3.5 billion events in a year, prevented over 745,200 policy violations, and blocked 37,000+ threats (including 5,490 encrypted threats), while simplifying access for IT and users and transforming the company’s network access strategy.

West Fraser

Michael Dobson

Director of Information Security