As an international company, Toyota Financial Services provides a global IT strategy with a level of customization for each country that factors in local challenges, regulations, and limitations. So, while all offices comply with global objectives—especially when it comes to security—networks, remote access facilities, links and inter-site connections, and email systems are unique, and the core network, storage and virtualization systems, office automation tools, and some professional solutions rely on local IT expertise.

To comply with the security directives from the Japanese parent company, for example, the IT team in France has for many years dealt with patching manually, using whatever tools were available. Unfortunately, when corrections are applied manually, malfunctions can occur, preventing some components from being updated. “This was an issue we found with VMware Tools,” recalls Pierre Ng, Chief Information Security Officer at Toyota Financial Services. It led him to consider other solutions.

In addition, recurring security audits andGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) obligations made better application control essential, and the company needed the ability to identify and encrypt removable devices like USB flash drives as well.

Read the case study to discover how Toyota Financial Services reduced patching time, secured removable devices and became compliant with GDPR and annual safety audits.