CUSTOMER CASE STUDY RUCHI SOYA

Real-time visibility
becomes a reality forprominent FMCG player
Ruchi Soya.
The Ruchi Group is regarded as a pioneer in the Indian FMCG industry. It started
its operations in 1972 and by 1986, when it became a Public Limited Company,
it had clinched its position as market leader. The company sells a range of soya
products – soya chunks, soy protein, soya milk, granules and soya flour. As
one of India’s largest manufacturers of edible oil, it also deals with palmolein,sunflower oil, vanaspati and bakery fats. The company is best known for its
range of soya products under the brands Nutrela, Mahakosh Soyabean oil,
Ruchi Gold Palmolein, and Sunrich sunflower oil.

CUSTOMER-AT-A-GLANCE
Ruchi SoyaIndustry
Agri-food FMCG

Websitewww.ruchisoya.com
Number of Users
1,000+Sophos Solutions
Sophos XG Firewall 102
Sophos XG Firewall 105
Sophos XG Firewall 115
Sophos XG Firewall 210
Sophos XG Firewall 230
Sophos Access Points

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‘Since the company began using the Sophos
XG Firewall as its primary firewall, it has notsuffered a single cybersecurity attack.’
Yateendra Chaturvedi
CIORuchi Soya Industries Limited

Challenges
ÌÌ Lack of real-time visibility into

the network, consisting of diverse
branches across various locations
ÌÌ Inability to manage bandwidth

effectively for different levels of users
ÌÌ Difficulty with authenticating internal,

wireless, and guest users securely

Can better technology
impact business operations?
With more than 20 manufacturing plants,
126 depots, 6,500 distributors, and 4,000
employees, and serving over 11.5 lakh retail
outlets, Ruchi Soya is no stranger to technology
or the complexities thereof. Given its massive
scale of operations, the company neededa solution that would do much more thanprotect it during a crisis. It needed a productthat would equip it with real-time information,
averting crises before they ever happened.
Says Yateendra Chaturvedi, chief information
officer, Ruchi Soya Industries Limited: “Wewere losing many manhours managing
users and firefighting supposed threats. We
wanted to be able to provide uninterrupted
connectivity across our branches, but wehad very little control over how the internet
was being used across the organization. Ourlegacy solution did not effectively track internet
usage of individual users. The lack of control
was risky, but there was little we could do.”Often, concurrent usage by several thousandsof employees meant that bandwidth
was not available for critical tasks.
“We wanted to limit bandwidth for certain users
and functions, so that it could be made more
effective for other functions that required higherbandwidth,” says Chaturvedi. “This meant that
we needed to be able to apply rules to control
usage and bandwidth for different work profiles.”The company also struggled with providing
secure Wi-Fi access to users. It wanted toenable guest users to easily plug in andout of the network without having to deal

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY RUCHI SOYA‘The anti-spam and antivirus at thegateway level has boosted security
and saved us many manhours ofeffort combating potential attacks.’
Yateendra Chaturvedi
CIO
Ruchi Soya Industries Limitedwith complex internal protocol. This meantthat authentication, while being foolproof,
had to be simple and intuitive too.

phased out of their legacy solution. Today, thecompany has more than 20 UTM and/or firewalls
and 40 wireless access points across its offices.

What made Sophos the final
word in network protection?

How did the Sophos
solution impact business?

“We initiated technical discussions withseveral UTM and firewall vendors,” says
Chauturvedi. “After several rounds of evaluations,
we finally decided to implement Sophos
XG Firewall, as it met the unique business
requirements and challenges of our distributedenvironment. Not only was it engineered
to address our major challenges, but alsopre-emptly deal with those concerns.”“The anti-spam and antivirus at the gateway levelhas been a game changer,” notes Chaturvedi.
“It has boosted security and saved us many
manhours of effort combating potential attacks.
Since the company began using the Sophos
XG Firewall as its primary firewall, it has not
suffered a single cybersecurity attack.”

Ruchi Soya began implementation by installing
four firewalls. Since then, it has completely

The purpose-built secure web gateway appliancemakes web protection simple, providing
advanced protection against malware thereby
optimizing performance. With unique featuresin terms of antivirus scanning, as well as app
and web filtering, Sophos provides instantinsight into ongoing web activity across thenetwork. By stopping malware in its tracks, it
frees up IT staff from having to chase threats.
According to Chaturvedi, the filter application
capabilities have also helped to dramatically
improve productivity. With just a few additional
clicks, Sophos empowers the company toenforce browsing quota times, while granular
controls for social web applications allow
companies to disable specific features.
Apart from managing usage, the company
has also been able to allocate bandwidth
depending on users and functions. Theload balancing feature has helped thecompany further optimize performance.
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we weren’t managing these lease lines in anyway,” observes Chaturvedi. “Users were affected
due to this ISP failure. Our business applications
were also impacted. Since implementing
Sophos, however, we have enjoyed seamlessconnectivity and users report 99.9% uptime.”
Another unlooked-for benefit has been thedeployment ready access points, which has
helped the company extend Wi-Fi easily.
“Now wireless networks can be up andrunning in no time,” says Chauturvedi. “Wehave a constantly evolving network acrossmultiple sites, so this scalability allows
us to upsize and downsize on the go.”An intuitive, centralized dashboard provides
Ruchi Soya with real-time information acrossthe network and customized reports makeit possible to make informed decisions.
“There’s no doubt that managing IT security
concerns has become a lot easier postSophos,” says Chaturvedi. “We look forward
to implementing Sophos at our subsidiarycompanies and also hope to explore theSophos Central range of products.”‘There’s no doubtthat managing IT
security concerns
has become alot easier post
Sophos.’Yateendra Chaturvedi
CIO
Ruchi Soya Industries Limited

It also allows guest users to easily plugin and out of the network. The two-factor
authentication process makes W-iFi
access more secure and helps bypass theneed for complex internal protocol.

Find out how Sophos can help
protect your organization atwww.sophos.com/products

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