Case Study
Enterprise Success Story - Credit Card Services
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE: INCREASED PERFORMANCE, IMPROVED AVAILABILITY AND SECURITY In the face of the ever-growing uptick in “trolling” -- hackers sniffing networks for remote access into point-of-sale systems that are open (or loosely protected) -- this large US-based credit card services company wanted to upgrade its legacy three-tier network architecture as well as add granular network-based intrusion protection for its customers’ POS systems. By adopting Pica8’s unique CrossFlow TM technology – a standard component of Pica8’s industry-leading Linux-based PICOS ® network operating system for disaggregated white box networking switches – this customer was able to eliminate a hacker’s network “dwell time” for known threats as well as slash any dwell time for new ones. On top of adding th