Standard Insurance Uses Cato for Cloud Migration and Digital Transformation Secure Cloud-Based SD-WAN • Cloud Datacenter Integration • Branch Appliance Elimination Many enterprises are undergoing a digital transformation — Alf Dela Cruz, reinventing the way they do business to become more innovative First Vice President, and more responsive to customer needs. This often entails migrating Head of IT Infrastructure applications to the cloud and increasing business agility by simplifying and Cybersecurity the IT infrastructure. Both were undoubtedly goals for Standard Insurance whose digital transformation initiative became so successful About Standard that ICMG, a leading full-service enterprise and IT architecture Insurance firm, awarded the company winner of “Best Architecture for IT Standard Insurance Co. Infrastructure” in 2018. Inc. operates as a non-life Standard Insurance, a nationwide provider of insurance and insurance company in the financial products in the Philippines had initiated a multiyear digital Philippines. The company is based in Makati, the transformation project in 2016. The company was shifting to online Philippines with sixty selling and needed to evolve its aging backend software infrastructure. branches, 700+ dealer/ The system served the entire process of the insurance business, agent networks, and 1500 from application and proposal to policy issuance, administration, associates nationwide. Prior to Cato, Standard Insurance and claims—in other words, the lifecycle of the company. The used local firewalls and new, custom-developed platform, though, still ran in the company low-bandwidth, telco- datacenter. A system failure would represent an existential threat to the provided IPVPN services company; moving the insurance software to AWS became a priority. to connect branches to the company headquarters. Insurance agents and employees across sixty branches VPNed Applications were initially into the Makati headquarters to access the company’s insurance hosted on-premise and in application. Those sites were secured by branch firewall appliances AWS before migrating fully to AWS. Specific applications connected by telco-provided VPN services. But the lack of telco included the core insurance coverage meant that Alf Dela Cruz, First Vice President, Head of issuance application, CRM, IT Infrastructure and Cybersecurity at Standard Insurance, and an accounting system, and his team had to manage multiple provider relationships to deliver other office productivity comprehensive branch connectivity. It was a headache. tools. Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next Case Studies - Banking/Credit union & Financial Services 14