Video Case Study

West Fraser Embarks on Zero Trust Transformation

and Speeds M&A Onboarding with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange

West Fraser snapshot

West Fraser Timber is one of the world’s largest diversified wood products companies and the largest lumber pr

Industry:Manufacturing

HQ:Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada

Size:8,000+ employees across approximately 50 locations

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West Fraser’s zero trust transformation

challenges

Simplify secure remote access and shrink time to productivity for employees of newly acquired companies

results

Deployed zero trust work-from-anywhere access globally within weeks

Grants new M&A employees access to apps in hours instead of weeks

Filtered approximately 3.5 billion events in one year

Prevented more than 745,200 policy violations

Blocked 37,000+ threats, including 5,490 encrypted threats

Simplifies remote access for both IT and users

Transformed network access strategy to zero trust

Michael Dobson

Michael Dobson

Director of Information Security, West Fraser
[For acquisitions] providing access to internal applications that would have involved weeks of planning and complicated architecture discussions are now resolved in a matter of hours.