Leading workplace insurer automates IP address management

Unum

Information technology plays a pivotal role in the fast-moving financial services sector. Effective IP address management is critical, and Anthony Lackey chose Cygna IPControl™ to replace risky and time consuming manual methods.
Integrated into IT infrastructure delivery processes, the Cygna IPControl solution frees valuable IT staff resources by automating and consolidating IP address provisioning. Project managers now have local control over their IP addressing needs — while Anthony has a common policy engine — and what used to take hours can now be achieved in minutes.

“Where possible we needed to adopt a zero-touch process, enabling IP addresses to be distributed and embedded directly within the IT infrastructure.”

Anthony Lackey

Communications Services Consultant, Unum

Applications

Advanced DDI software for Linux or Windows

Secure, multi-platform DDI appliances

25,000

IP Addresses

Challenge

Operating across the United States and the UK, Unum is a leading provider of financial protection benefits available at the workplace. It offers employer and employee-funded disability, life, accident, and critical illness cover to protect millions of people and their families in the event of illness or injury. Unum has won many industry awards and is consistently rated in the top three for both individual and group protection.<br/>With over 25,000 IP addresses administered manually using a variety of spreadsheets, web pages, and locally developed applications, the potential for error and consequential business disruption had become too great. The company decided that a more consistent approach enabling more provisioning process automation was needed.