Closer To Becoming world's Most Digitized Bottling Operation

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners was formed in May 2021 by Coca-Cola European Partners’ acquisition of bottling company Coca-Cola Amatil. The entity is the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler, based on net revenues. In addition to Coca-Cola beverages, brands include Diet Coke, Fanta, and Sprite, as well as an extensive range of hydration and ready-to-drink coffees, teas, and juices.

While digitization is increasing efficiency and significantly growing customer engagement, it also comes with several challenges, not least being the growing risk of cyberattacks.

This led the company’s Australian, Pacific and Indonesian operations (CCEP API) to create a three-year roadmap for developing and implementing enhanced security measures. A key element of the plan has been to improve existing privileged access management processes and gain heightened oversight and control over the use of elevated credentials.

Privileged Access Management Is Critical For Mitigating Risk

Reinforcing compliance to standards such as PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and adherence to the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) framework were also important drivers for change.

To select the optimal privileged access management solution, CCEP API brought together stakeholders to ensure cross-business alignment and streamline adoption once the new solution was selected.

CCEP API rolled out CyberArk Privileged Access Manager Self-Hosted – a hybrid on-premises and cloud solution that utilizes Microsoft Azure and other cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform. 

CCEP API managed the implementation with support from CyberArk to help ensure that best practice guidelines, as defined by the CyberArk Blueprint methodology, were followed.

• [Data Management - Cyber Security]
  
  • Defends against modern threats and advanced attacks
  • Provides 360-degree oversight of privileged access management.
  • Replaces manual, trust-based practices with rigorous, automated security processes.

  .

• [Management Effectiveness - Data Analysis]
  
  • Increases efficiency and reduces time and resources needed to manage privileged access
  • Ease of integration with existing technology stack components
  • Satisfy audit and compliance with standards like PCI DSS and NIST
  • Sets the standard for global, group-wide privileged access management