Ongoing client audits of micro-segmentation at UK asset management firm Baillie Gifford led its IT team of Colin Lennox and Bill Frater to review their options. They needed granular assurance of client data protection on an ongoing basis and a higher level of scrutiny than they could provide using traditional segmentation methods. “We were looking for a solution that gave us a deep, insightful view of what’s traversing the network and enabled us to ringfence based on logic rather than just us taking pot luck.”
Re-architecting its network infrastructure was a non-starter. “We would be taking something that was working and potentially break it to secure the environment. We’d have to rework the routing and add lots of complex paths. There was quite a lot of risk involved, and we found it difficult to justify the expense of costs associated with doing that.”
Beyond the data center, the firm leverages multi-cloud for efficiencies and to avoid vendor lock-in – but governing the environments consistently was a concern. “We wanted to have a solution that worked across any data center and any cloud vendor so that we can treat them as a transient species that we can move between.”