At Huisman, intellectual property and crucial data is accessed daily by employees worldwide and frequently shared across teams, locations, and partners. This complex context created a clear business demand for the move to a cloud-first solution: How would Huisman protect its “crown jewels” in a cloud-first, globally distributed environment without putting a brake on collaboration or slowing innovation?

First, Huisman relied on a traditional MPLS-based network that was expensive, difficult to scale, and made inefficient use of the available bandwidth. Second, Huisman’s on-premises datacenter model was not up to the task of supporting a cloud-first strategy. Third, legacy Layer 4 firewall is a static rule model, which was difficult to manage in cloud-based environments.