How Cathay Pacific Fast-Tracked Segmentation and Compliance Success with Illumio

"Attacker sophistication just keeps improving How do you make it difficult for them?

With this question looming over General Manager of Infrastructure, Operations, and Security, Kerry Peirse, Cathay Pacific determined to implement a Zero Trust security strategy and redouble its focus on segmentation to prevent the lateral movement of attackers and malware.

Kerry and team sought to make life difficult for attackers with a micro-segmentation solution that makes life easier for the organization. This led Cathay toIllumio Core and Illumio Edgeforend-to-end Zero Trust and micro-segmentation.

Time is of the essence in matters oflateral movement protection and PCI compliance, and Illumios simpler approach to micro-segmentation put Cathay on a fast track to success: "Our overall implementation time was less than three months, which is very fast. If you try and do that on a network-based level, you're talking 12, 18 months.

Hear their story in this video with Kerry Peirse, General Manager of Infrastructure, Operations, and Security. Kerry recounts:

• Cathays requirements for segmenting their critical systems and protecting vast troves of customer data.
• How Illumio proved indispensable while chasing down an attack.
• The added value to theorganization that goes above and beyond any product capability.

To learn more about Cathay's story fromHead of Infrastructure Engineering, YC Chan,read on here.