Case Study

Rapid Compliance Restoration After Skybox Shutdown for Global Retailer

A UK-based global retail and pharmacy leader offering health, beauty, and wellness products with extensive operations and complex network infrastructure.

Use Cases:

Enforce Compliance, Manage Change

Industry:

Retail

The Challenge

The service provider urgently needed a replacement that could restore compliance, reduce risk, and scale without recreating Skybox’s limitations.

The company sought to:

Regain compliance with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and CIS frameworks.
Eliminate costly professional services dependencies.
Centralize visibility and reporting across 100+ firewalls.
Implement scalable automation to support evolving requirements.

The Solution

The organization selected FireMon to not only replace Skybox, but to expand beyond its previous capabilities. By eliminating costly customizations and empowering teams with self-service flexibility, FireMon provided a scalable foundation for long-term compliance and risk management.

Automated compliance checks & customizable reporting across all firewalls
Rule cleanup & lifecycle management: detection of unused, redundant, or shadow rules, with automated recertification workflows
Change automation: predictive analysis of rule changes before deployment
Centralized visibility across Fortinet, Palo Alto, and on-prem firewalls
Scalability & integration through an API-first architecture, aligned with future ServiceNow adoption

“FireMon gave us back the visibility and control we lost when Skybox collapsed. Instead of relying on expensive customizations, we can now manage compliance, reporting, and policy changes ourselves, faster, easier, and at scale.”

Head of Global Networks

managing the selection and deployment of FireMon

Results

Rapid replacement of Skybox functionality without costly PS engagements.
Self-service customization vs. expensive service-heavy approach.
Compliance restored across 100+ firewalls aligned with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and CIS.
Future-ready, scalable architecture supports automation and innovation.
Faster audits via automated reporting nd rule workflows that cut audit prep.
Industry credibility as the pioneer of NSPM, validated through PoCs and outcome delivery.

100%

Compliance restored across PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and CIS frameworks

100+

Firewalls managed across Fortinet, and Palo Alto

70%

Reduction in costs by eliminating reliance on professional services for policy customization.

About FireMon

FireMon’s mission is to improve security operations that will in turn lead to better security outcomes. FireMon delivers industry-leading security policy management, cloud security operations, and asset management solutions. Our platform is the only real-time solution that reduces firewall and cloud security policy-related risks, manages policy changes, and enforces compliance. FireMon’s Cloud Defense (formerly DisruptOps) is the only distributed cloud security operations offering that detects and responds to issues in the fast-paced public cloud environments. Our cloud-based Asset Management solution (formerly Lumeta) scans entire infrastructures to identify everything in the environment and provide valuable insights into how it’s all connected.

Rapid Compliance Restoration After Skybox Shutdown for Global Retailer

The Challenge

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