The M&A Story: Then and Now

According to Harvard Business Review, there have been more than 50,000 mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures worldwide in each of the past three years, and 2018 shows no signs of abating. While each M&A is unique, for IT, they all tell a similar, excruciating story: IT scrambles to figure out the fastest way to keep services running in order to minimize disruption and maximize ROI for the business.

In the past, this process could take months or years and involved converging disparate networks and dealing with overlapping IP addresses. But that was then, this is now.

In this session, you’ll hear from Casey Lee, Director of Security at National Oilwell Varco (NOV), a global leader in oil industry manufacturing. NOV has carried out more than 300 M&As over the last decade and now uses Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) to achieve zero trust security while accelerating the M&A process. You’ll learn:

• How traditional challenges can be avoided
• The NOV M&A story
• How ZPA simplifies M&A
• How legacy processes compare to ZPA