This customer spotlight features an enterprise road and rail solutions provider company that successfully utilized SUSE's NeuVector solution running on Amazon EKS to enhance its IT infrastructure and streamline operations. The organization experienced significant improvements in efficiency, reliability and overall performance with NeuVector on Amazon EKS.
At-a-Glance
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Challenges
This organization faced significant challenges in managing its complex IT infrastructure and ensuring smooth operations. To optimize its processes, improve stability and enhance security, the company sought a reliable and efficient solution. Specifically, the company was unhappy with its current container security solution and wanted to evaluate other options. It had security concerns with its Kubernetes environment and needed to protect its distributed computing environment. Because the organization uses cloud native tools for developer agility, it needed to keep those environments secure. The company selected NeuVector on Amazon EKS for its robust capabilities and flexibility. As a result, it secured the development pipeline and runtime while increasing stability by leveraging the managed EKS control plane, auto-scaling and robust and highly available API. Overall, these changes improved business reliability and dramatically improved the security posture.
"Implementation was quick and easy, giving us instant coverage of all of the services in our cluster. The visibility it gave us and the ability to block unwanted traffic and any commands that should not be happening was crucial."
Risks
Had the organization not addressed the above challenges, its systems would have been impacted by zero day attacks, leaving the organization vulnerable to unplanned downtime, data breaches and/or bribery attacks. In addition, it would have lacked visibility into cluster communications and no software to create an application communication map.
Outcomes
The company selected NeuVector on Amazon EKS for its robust capabilities and flexibility. As a result, it streamlined IT management, increased stability and fortified security measures. The company reported enhanced system performance, reduced downtime and increased efficiency in operations while benefiting from cost savings and exceptional customer support. Overall, it experienced improved business performance and customer satisfaction.