The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) is the corporation responsible for operating the electricity market and directing the operation of the bulk electrical system in the province of Ontario, Canada. And in coordinating the wholesale electricity market for Ontario, they work with sector partners, engaging with communities across Ontario to plan and prepare for the province’s electricity needs now and into the future. As a part of the North American power grid, the IESO interties with the different Independent System Operator entities in the U.S. including New York, New England, and the Midwest.

IESO's network architecture faced challenges in providing secure access to allow vendors and contractors into their existing client-based VPN.

Read this case study to learn how Ivanti Secure and Ivanti Appliance products helped IESO solve these challenges and provided better role-based operations, web portal operations for vendors, and dynamic role mapping with custom expressions to enable the Administrator the ability to provision by purpose for each unique session.