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The largest lending-exclusive financial company in the US, OneMain Financial is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit. The company helps customers meet critical financial needs, including debt consolidation, home and auto repair, medical procedures, and other major expenses.
Simplify infrastructure, reduce risk, perform unlimited TLS/SSL inspection, and deliver a smoother, faster user experience
Ensures predictable costs, with no capacity limitations or hardware refreshes
Simplifies administration with fewer change windows and less to manage
Improves user experience with <1 ms latency for 96% of transactions
Fully inspects all traffic, including TLS/SSL-encrypted traffic
Policy administration has been simplified immensely, where we make a change, we put it into one place versus entering it into ten different places.
Benefits of moving to the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange
Read the BlogMigrating from traditional hardware to cloud-first security
Watch the WebinarThis blog post was originally published in August 2020 and has been lightly updated.
We spoke with Daniel Kelly, VP/Managing Director of Network Services and Security at OneMain Financial, one of the largest lending-exclusive financial companies in the United States. This financial leader has been in existence for more than 100 years and has lent more than $152 billion to customers across 44 states since 2005. The company switched from a stack of Broadcom (formerly Blue Coat) appliances to Zscaler Internet Access, and Mr. Kelly shared some of the results with us.
Before we look specifically at OneMain Financial, let take a quick look at something that is top of mind of just about every executive—costs. Over just a three-year span, organizations can save millions with a cloud-based security-as-a-service platform over a hardware-based security stack.
As if that wasn’t enough reason to switch, here are some of the specific benefits seen by OneMain Financial after it switched from Broadcom appliances to Zscaler:
Of course, undertaking a task such as replacing your entire legacy appliance stack can seem daunting. But Mr. Kelly offered some tips and suggestions that anyone contemplating this type of move cloud use to their advantage:
Using Zscaler now gives us the capability to route things directly out through the internet in our branches and campus location.
Like so many others, OneMain Financial has discovered the benefits of leaving appliances behind and moving to Zscaler.
We don’t have to worry about [adding proxies] in each data center anymore, so it’s a lot less for us to manage. Zscaler is doing that for us.