Ducks Unlimited Canada snapshot

Canada’s largest land conservation organization and a leader in wetland conservation

Industry:Nonprofit Institutions

HQ:Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada

Size:500 employees and 25 field offices

25

field offices

Hours

to connect and secure users and devices

1

policy ruleset applied everywhere

challenges

Legacy SD-WAN-based architecture could not deliver distributed, scalable connectivity across field offices with different needs

Publicly accessible branches presented segmentation challenges to route and secure employees, volunteers, and 100,000 annual visitors

Ongoing management of multiple networking and security point solutions was complex, time-consuming, and expensive

phased journey

  1. Secured internet, SaaS, and private app access for the hybrid and mobile workforce, regardless of location or device
  2. Replaced SD-WAN with Zero Trust Branch to unify policy management and enforce granular access control, eliminating the need for separate rulesets

results

Simplifies operations to keep IT agile, able to deploy and scale and policies from small branch offices to its national headquarters

Strengthens security posture with granular access control and segmentation within the branch network, preventing lateral movement of threats

Andrew Pratt

Andrew Pratt

Director of Information Technology, Ducks Unlimited Canada
The beauty of having the branch connector and ZPA is it gives us one set of rules that we can update and push to all clients everywhere [...] It's one pane of glass to manage all of those topologies and rules.

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We could have left our [previous] SD-WAN in place and layered ZPA on top of that, but that would mean managing rules in one product and rules in another.

Andrew Pratt, Director of Information Technology, Ducks Unlimited Canada

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We are a very small IT team that has to manage a fairly wide array of products, people, and places. [Zscaler] scales very easily between a very small branch all the way up to our national headquarters.

Andrew Pratt, Director of Information Technology, Ducks Unlimited Canada

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One of the things I'm really excited about moving from SD-WAN into a true zero trust platform [...] will be that microsegmentation concept. So if there is a compromised account or device, it can't laterally start to move.

Andrew Pratt, Director of Information Technology, Ducks Unlimited Canada

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Solutions

Zero Trust Architecture
Zero Trust Branch & Cloud
Network & Security Transformation
Zero Trust SD-WAN