Case Study: Wipro achieves a 30% productivity boost and blocks tens of millions of threats with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange

Wipro Replaces Traditional Firewalls/VPNs with Zscaler

Wipro, a global technology services and consulting firm with about 240,000 employees across 64 countries, needed to strengthen its security posture, enable secure work‑from‑anywhere, modernize legacy VPNs and firewalls, and improve the digital user experience. Existing appliances caused performance bottlenecks, limited TLS/SSL inspection and couldn’t scale during the pandemic, creating security and productivity gaps.

Wipro deployed the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange (ZIA, ZPA, and Data Protection) to replace VPNs and appliances with a direct‑to‑cloud, least‑privilege architecture and inline TLS inspection. In three months the platform processed 106 billion transactions (5,629 TB), prevented 8.1 billion policy violations and blocked 15.7 million threats (including 8.2 million in encrypted traffic), while boosting workforce productivity by 30%, delivering multimillion‑dollar cost savings and improving security posture by roughly 85%.

Wipro

Anup Purohit

Chief Information Officer