CASE STUDY FINANCIAL SERVICES INSTITUTION PROTECTS LEGACY ASSETS BACKGROUND A multinational banking and financial services corporation undertook multiple network security and compliance initiatives to reduce operational complexity and risk. The financial institution faced a number of challenges. First, legacy applications and infrastructure run numerous core business operations. These legacy applications were unable to integrate with modern identity and access management (IAM) platforms including modern methods of user authentication (such as SAML and RADIUS). Next, the institution needed to move 2 million firewall rule sets handling north/ south traffic off the internal data center firewalls. Managing this with firewall rule sets was becoming resource intensive and error prone.

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