Introducing a Corporate Network Access Management System

PZU’s business rests upon the trust of millions of customers. And it is not only about insurance payout or transparent insurance terms. The utmost personal data protection has become particularly important in today’s digital world, where the points of contact with customers have gone far beyond physical offices and any service can be ordered in just a few taps on a smartphone.

Enhancing access control and expanding functionality to detect threats from a single point in the infrastructure was one of the tasks to be solved as another step on that way.

Одне із завдань, вирішення яких - черговий крок на цьому шляху, було підвищення рівня контролю доступу та розширення функціоналу по виявленню загроз з єдиної точки управління доступом в інфраструктурі.

about the customer

Company

PZU Ukraine

Industry

Insurance

Website

https://www.pzu.com.ua/

About company

PZU Ukraine is a member of some of the largest financial groups of companies in Eastern and Central Europe. The innovative solutions and functional technological trends used by the company help ensure the optimal service to meet the customers’ needs.

Business in numbers

160

divisions

700

employees

agents and partners

200

insurance products

customers

our results

task immersion

We started the project with the audit of the existing network infrastructure. The data we have collected and understanding the infrastructure helped us build and introduce a new network architecture concept taking into account PZU Ukraine’s further business growth and future needs

solutions

Building the infrastructure to create a Cisco ISE-based corporate network access management system.

result

This product automates the information security functions throughout the system using access control and encryption tools at the network level. It also facilitates the daily work routine of the IT department through the development of policies reflecting the business rules based on users, devices, applications, and locations.

technological results:

We have developed policies for building network security in the organization.
The Cisco ISE access control system has been integrated with the existing hardware and software suites (Cisco ASA and Cisco FTD).
The intelligent development of policies with a granular description of the setting terms has been introduced.
The information security mechanisms have been provided together with the solution for their audit.
The network scalability has been ensured with regard to the further growth of the team and the needs for the service development.
Network interruptions have been reduced.
The threat detection functionality has been expanded.

new business opportunities

upgrading

The company managed to enhance the protection of its assets by reducing the risks of unauthorized network access. The deployed customized business access policies made the network management process more flexible and convenient for the administration team allowing them focusing on improving the team’s quality and comfort.

reduction

Operating costs for network control and management tasks have been reduced because the majority of manual processes were automated by introducing complete monitoring, generation of historical reports, advanced searching tools and by eliminating the network access deficiencies.