Client: Veolia Group, Poland
Industry: Energy, Water, and Waste Management
Solution: Sycope Visibility + Security Modules
Impact: 5x Faster Data Collection, Streamlined SIEM Integration, Optimized Network Operations
About the Client
Veolia Group stands as a leader in delivering innovative energy, water, and waste management services aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Globally employing over 220,000 professionals, and 4,600 in Poland alone, Veolia serves both municipalities and industries with sustainable infrastructure solutions. In 2021, it delivered drinking water to 79 million people and generated nearly 48 million MWh of energy.
Veolia Poland’s Shared Services Centre IT Department plays a mission-critical role in ensuring the availability, security, and performance of IT infrastructure across all sites in the country.
The Challenge: complexity, bottlenecks, and disjointed tools
The IT environment at Veolia is characterized by a wide range of hardware — including Meraki, Cisco, and CheckPoint devices — dispersed across numerous sites. Prior to Sycope, monitoring was fragmented. Vendor-specific tools forced engineers to juggle multiple consoles, making incident response slow and reactive.
“We needed one platform to monitor our network end-to-end and feed relevant insights into our SIEM system.” says Maciej Oziembło, Data Centre Area Manager at Veolia Poland.
Key pain points included:
- Delayed troubleshooting caused by fragmented visibility
- Inability to analyze real-time traffic loads
- Difficulty tracing bottlenecks and application slowness
- Complex configuration and poor scalability of prior solutions
- Overhead from maintaining disparate tools for traffic and security
The Sycope Solution: unified, high-speed, scalable monitoring
After a comprehensive market review, Veolia chose Sycope for its superior performance, real-time analytics, and user-focused design.
Why Sycope?
- 5x faster data collection (up to 250,000 flows per second), far outpacing most competing solutions
- Unified Visibility and Security modules
- Seamless integration with Veolia’s SIEM
- Powerful dashboards for custom KPI views
- Easy deployment — up and running in one day
“The Sycope system perfectly met our needs and helped us optimize the operational costs of our SIEM.” – Maciej Oziembło, Data Centre Area Manager
Results: Faster, Smarter, More Transparent Network Operations
Key Benefits:
- 5x Faster Data Collection: Achieved a peak rate of 250k flows per second, unmatched by prior tools.
- Comprehensive traffic insight: User-to-server, server-to-server, port-based, and protocol-level analytics.
- Proactive problem solving: Quickly identified bandwidth bottlenecks and degraded links.
- Reduced response time: Visual dashboards allowed real-time identification of anomalies.
- Streamlined compliance: Automated traffic validation against approved security matrices.
- Simplified security: Sycope’s threat detection engine enhanced visibility of suspicious or unauthorized activity.
“Working with Sycope has been a smooth experience. They have an organized approach to product implementation, and their team communicates effectively to ensure the project progresses as planned.” – Jan Rześny, Support engineer, Passus S.A.
From Visibility to Action
The Sycope solution has allowed Veolia’s IT department to move from reactive troubleshooting to proactive decision-making. By centralizing network and security insights, the team can now:
- Allocate resources more effectively
- Detect and prevent outages
- Spot suspicious behavior before it becomes an incident
- Support long-term planning for application scaling and device load balancing
Faster troubleshooting, and greater operational efficiency — all without compromising scalability or simplicity.
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