Palo Alto Networks

STW Communications Group Limited is Australasia’s largest marketing content and communications services group, comprising more than 75 operating companies and 2,500 staff which focus on advertising, design, digital, public and government relations and specialist communications.

"Implementing the Palo Alto PA-5020 next-generation firewall has been a huge positive for our business. This solution has been very easy to implement and it has definitely fulfilled our needs. We know we can gain relevant, reliable information on the business and use that to greater benefit in the longer term – all while secure in the knowledge that we are continually protected."

The University of Macau (UM) was founded in 1981 as a private higher education institution. Formerly known as the University of East Asia and renamed as the University of Macau in 1991, the university is now one of leading universities in the region, offering over 130 Bachelor, Masters and PhD programmes.

"The whole network is now far easier to manage and maintain. Better yet, it is also highly scalable, so we do not need a major network infrastructure upgrades for the foreseeable future. Overall, the Palo Alto Networks solution has proven to be the best fit for our purpose."

Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) is a public institution of higher education with an emphasis on applied knowledge and skills. The MPI has 235 academic staff, 297 administrators and 55 professional trainers.

"Being able to migrate seamlessly from the old system to the new one had been a key concern for us, but in the event, it was very easy, with no disruption to students or staff. Now, the console gives us total network visibility at any given time."

Fundada en 1608 por manda testamentaria del Arzobispo don Fernando de Valdés Salas, la Universidad de Oviedo cuenta actualmente con unos 23.000 alumnos, 2.000 PDI (Personal Docente e Investigador) y 1.000 PAS (Personal de Administración y Servicios) para impartir enseñanzas oficiales de 1º y 2º ciclo, grado, master y Doctorado, así como otros estudios de títulos propios y extensión universitaria.

“El grado de satisfacción con los productos de Palo Alto Networks es muy positivo. Ya en la fase de prospección de soluciones, ésta se reveló como una de las más completas y competitivas de todas las analizadas. El salto cualitativo en el control de los eventos que ocurren en nuestro perímetro de comunicaciones, tanto en flujos entrantes como salientes, ha sido muy importante. Por todo ello, es más que previsible que en futuros procesos de adquisición de hardware, sobre todo en el ámbito relacionado con la seguridad de las comunicaciones, tengamos presentes las soluciones de Palo Alto Networks”.

Das Bildungswerk der Niedersächsischen Wirtschaft gemeinnützige GmbH (BNW) bietet berufliche Orientierungshilfe, Vermittlungsunterstützung und Fortbildungsprogramme.

„Zweimal infizierte eine Version des Conficker-Wurms Schulungsräume, die zwar nicht vom BNW betreut werden, aber auch an unserem Netz hängen. Die Firewall hat es uns glücklicherweise ermöglicht, die Attacke zu isolieren. Damit war die Bedrohung von unserem Netz abgewendet.“

The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), the nation's largest community college district, serves one-quarter million students a year in more than 36 cities in Los Angeles County.

“More and faster access to information is critical to students and faculty, but it creates new challenges for traditional IT thought. Palo Alto Networks empowers our users to consume all the information they want from any client, but prevents infections. That’s revolutionary.”

The Vocational Training Council (VTC) is the largest vocational education, training and professional development group in Hong Kong.

"Palo Alto Networks PA-2050 allowed us to gain increased visibility & control over web application usage by students, something not possible with traditional firewalls."

University of Groningen enjoys an international reputation as one of the oldest and leading educational and research universities in Europe.

"The great thing about the PA-4000 Series is I can easily install it and block all high risk and critical incidents. It actually shows me applications, not just ports, and tells me what a port is used for even though it looks like an HTTP port."

IKT Agder is a provider of IT project planning, procurement and consulting services based in Norway.

"Palo Alto Networks has delivered everything we hoped for in a firewall solution, and more.  The PA-4000 Series is an ideal, comprehensive, and effective solution for an IT services and educational organization such as ours.  It has made us more secure and lowered our costs."

Sinclair Community College is the largest community college at a single location in the state of Ohio.

"After deploying Palo Alto Networks' PA-4000 Series, we were able to not only see which applications were on our network, but we were also able to understand the benefits and risks associated with them."

University de Liège is a major public university in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.

"Palo Alto Networks est le seul constructeur qui nous a proposé la protection que nous recherchons depuis si longtemps, c'est-à-dire la possibilité de filtrer le trafic par application et par utilisateur."

Garland Independent School District is the twelfth largest school district in Texas with more than 58,000 students.

"The PA-4000 Series greatly improved network and application performance while giving us instant, sustainable control over the applications and content on our network."

Greenford High School is a vibrant and successful seat of learning for over 1700 pupils aged 11 to 19.

"Controlling what users can access is essential. We cannot compromise on anything less than total responsibility when students – many of whom are under the age of 18 – are accessing materials through our networks."

Oriental Institute of Technology  was founded by Yu-Ziang Hsu, president of Far Eastern Group, in October, 1968, OIT, or Oriental Institute of Technology, was originally a two-year junior college, later changing to its current name in 2000.

"With accurate identification rate, intuitive interface, detailed reports, and rapid data analyses, the Palo Alto Networks PA-4020 can accomplish what traditional firewalls cannot do."

Shinshu University is a Japanese national university with eight facilities on five campuses.

"Now, our PA-4000 offers us a rich set of features to enable granular policy management by different faculty. We can also delegate policy management privileges to each domain's administrator."

Wellington College is a prestigious 150-year old educational institution founded by Queen Victoria in 1859.

"After investigating several technologies, the Palo Alto Networks firewall provided a much better fit for the needs of the college by combining application visibility and control with intrusion prevention in one solution."

Texas A&M University is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant institution located in College Station, Texas.

"Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls are multi-function devices that do more than the other products combined, and give us everything we need."

San Jose State University offers rigorous course work and research opportunities to more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students in seven colleges.

"Ensuring (IT) resources are not overwhelmed by threats and risky applications is challenging, given the nature of university environments. The PA-4000 Series enables us to understand and control applications on our networks to achieve that goal."

En charge de l’amélioration de la sécurité des installations électriques, le Comité National pour la Sécurité des Usagers de l’Electricité (CONSUEL) veille au respect des normes d’installations électriques dans les logements et les locaux à réglementations particulières en vue d’assurer la sécurité des personnes et la conservation des biens.

« Palo Alto Networks nous a aidé à mettre en oeuvre une utilisation sécurisée des applications au niveau des employés principalement grâce aux logs de trafic. »

DTE Energy is a Detroit-based diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related services nationwide.

"With Palo Alto Networks we found the visibility into our network we were seeking. Now we get better visibility into what's going on inside our network and into the applications attempting to access our network. From a bandwidth perspective, we don't want to be too restrictive, but we do want to ensure appropriate resources for our business traffic."

Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance is the European consumer credit leader. The Dutch branch office Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance Nederland B.V. is the largest credit lender of the Netherlands. Through its renowned brands and labels this financing company provides 40% of all private crediting in the country.

"Everything has become a lot easier. We can now do a lot more by ourselves. I get insight faster as the reports are now much better organized. Palo Alto Networks generates numerous reports, giving us a clear direction. With the old firewall, it took us days to unearth the information. Now it’s simply a click on a button. I’m now more in control. Also the IPS capabilities are doing a great job for us."

Raymond James Financial (NYSE-RJF) is a Florida-based diversified holding company providing financial services to individuals, corporations and municipalities through its subsidiary companies.

"Lab evidence and tests using demo applications from firewall vendors wouldn’t suffice; we wanted to see a firewall perform live in production on our network with our traffic and applications.  The fact that we chose Palo Alto Networks after nearly a year of testing every major firewall vendor speaks volumes about the advanced nature and performance of their solution."

Western & Southern Financial Group is a nationally recognized leader in consumer and business financial services.

"The Palo Alto Networks system holds a great deal of promise for simplifying security infrastructure. Strategically, that could translate to the ability to reduce the number of technologies we use and simplify our infrastructure - all while maintaining a very high level of security and resiliency."

Nicolet National Bank provides retail, private and commercial banking needs in northeast Wisconsin.

"I really like the visibility I gain into our network. I can literally review our logs very easily at any time and tell anyone what applications are being used, and by whom, in minutes."

Møre and Romsdal Council is part of county-level government in Norway, responsible for the well-being of around 250,000 people in the west of the country. Its 2,400 employees are responsible for the region’s transport infrastructure, culture, business development, dental care and secondary education for around 10,000 high school students.

“For me, the difference between the Palo Alto Networks firewall and its competitors is night and day,” said Kaldhol. “We’re not only detecting and eliminating threats long before they can do any damage, we’re also removing the opportunities for attacks on our network in the first place — and all this in a single, simple and cost effective solution."

Der IT-Dienstleister regio iT ist ein Partner für Städte und Kommunen. Mit Standorten in Aachen und Gütersloh unterstützt regio iT rund 320 Kunden und betreut 20.500 Clients aus dem kommunalen Umfeld bei Herausforderungen mit der rasanten IT-Entwicklung und zunehmendem Kostendruck. Mit derzeit 340 Mitarbeitern übernimmt regio iT den Betrieb und die Betreuung von Datenbankund Server-Systemen sowie der gesamten IT-Infrastruktur bei Energie- und Entsorgungsunternehmen, Schulen und Non-Profit-Organisationen und verwaltet die Daten von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern in der Region.

„Wir konnten mit der Konsolidierung der Firewalls Kosten senken, den Zeitaufwand der Administration deutlich reduzieren und die Flexibilität auf Kundenanforderungen erhöhen. Gleichzeitig wurde die Sicherheit für unsere Kunden verbessert.“

Con más de 80 centros asistenciales y dos hospitales propios, con implantación nacional, MAZ centra su actividad en la gestión de las contingencias de Accidentes de Trabajo y Enfermedades Profesionales, asistencia sanitaria, trámites para prestación económica por incapacidad temporal derivada de la enfermedad común o accidente no laboral, y otros servicios y actividades legalmente atribuidas por el Ministerio de Trabajo. Asimismo, la entidad –séptima mutua en el ránking del sector entra las 20 existentes– presta servicio a más de 88.000 empresas asociadas a nivel nacional, protege a unos 515.000 trabajadores por cuenta ajena, y cuenta con más de 95.000 trabajadores autónomos adheridos protegidos.

“Nuestra presencia en Internet es muy alta. MAZ es un sistema autónomo y dispone de un numero importante de direcciones IP públicas, por lo que el numero de amenazas que recibimos es muy alto. El anterior sistema de seguridad perimetral no nos reportaba las respuestas esperadas, y los problemas de gestión eran cada vez más acuciantes. En este punto, nos propusimos migrar a un firewall de nueva generación, en alta disponibilidad, lo suficientemente escalable como para asumir el tráfico que generábamos y lograr un control mas personalizado del trafico de red”.

Como institución de carácter ejecutivo en que se organiza el autogobierno de la Comunidad Foral de Navarra, el Gobierno de Navarra es el órgano colegiado que, bajo la dirección de su Presidente, establece la política general y dirige la Administración de la Comunidad Foral de Navarra.

“Con anterioridad a la instalación de los firewall de nueva generación de Palo Alto Networks, no disponíamos de una visibilidad real de lo que se hacía y se utilizaba en nuestra organización. Ahora, gracias a sus funcionalidades, es posible realizar un control granular de las aplicaciones utilizadas por los usuarios; disponemos de una protección eficaz frente a una gran variedad de amenazas, así como, de información sobre los equipos corporativos que generan tráfico malicioso; y de opciones de filtrado de URLs, lo que permite establecer políticas de control sobre la actividad de navegación”.

Situado geográficamente en la zona suroeste de la provincia de Guadalajara, en la comarca de La Alcarria, Yebes es un pueblo con más de mil años de antigüedad que consta de dos núcleos urbanos: el propio pueblo, donde se encuentra el ayuntamiento, y el moderno núcleo de Valdeluz, inaugurado en 2007 y diseñado para albergar 9.000 viviendas y hasta 30.000 habitantes, y que, entre otras, da cobijo a la Estación de Alta Velocidad Guadalajara, y donde también se encuentran las oficinas municipales. Ambos ejes urbanos están separados por una distancia de unos 8 kilómetros.

“Anteriormente contábamos con tres firewalls Linux implantados en cada una de las ubicaciones, los cuales no nos permitían controlar el tráfico a nivel de aplicación, ni alcanzar el rendimiento que demandábamos, a lo que se sumaban los problemas de seguridad de la red. Tras la creación de la nueva infraestructura, comprobamos que Palo Alto Networks era sin duda la mejor elección, tanto por las sesiones concurrentes que puede manejar como por las latencias de tráfico y sus opciones de seguridad”.

La Croix-Rouge française, c’est à la fois une association de 52 000 bénévoles engagés depuis plus de 140 ans sur de nombreux fronts de la lutte contre les précarités et une entreprise de services, à but non lucratif, couvrant différents domaines tels que les services dans le sanitaire, le social, le médico-social et la formation avec 18 000 salariés dans plus de 550 établissements.

« Les produits Palo Alto Networks répondaient à nos deux priorités : des capacités de contrôles des flux applicatifs élevés, associées à une grande facilité d’administration grâce à une interface performante. Peu de solutions apportent ce niveau de fonctionnalités »

Tysvær Municipality is in the very heart of Haugalandet, Norway and is renowned for its many long and winding fjords.

"It's quite amazing because for the first time ever I am in complete control over my network which means I can see any traffic coming in and out - not just on ports like on traditional firewalls - but by application."

City of Stauton, Virginia has more than 20 public schools and a pioneering history in progressive government.

"Not only did Palo Alto Networks give us visibility and control over the applications running on our network, the PA-4000 Series also enables us to consolidate our security infrastructure. Now, one policy engine governs all applications, users and content."

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, a non-profit, has been serving individuals and families for more than 50 years.

"The visibility and control the PA-4000 Series allows us to ensure that bandwidth and network resources are being used appropriately and have not been compromised – giving us the greatest confidence that our clients' privacy and security are protected."

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world.

"The management interface of the Palo Alto Networks firewalls and its ability to dig deep into traffic – including SSL-encrypted applications – provides an intrinsic level of visibility and control to ensure our users and systems are protected, while not being too complex to navigate."

Summa Health System is one of the largest organized delivery systems in Ohio. Encompassing a network of hospitals, community health centers, a health plan, a physician-hospital organization, an entrepreneurial entity, research and a foundation.

"In one Palo Alto Networks firewall we got intrusion prevention, malware protection, content filtering and the visibility to block risky network activities and patch vulnerabilities. Instead of 15 different pieces of software and servers, we only have to manage two devices."

Capital Region Health Care (CRHC) and Concord Hospital CRHC is a regional health delivery system. It includes Concord Hospital, which has 3,200 employees, including more than 750 physicians and nurses, at the main campus and more than 10 remote sites

"Since implementing Palo Alto, I have come to the conclusion that a firewall that is not application and user aware provides little value to our organization."

Children's Hospital Boston is one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States.

"The performance has been fantastic. Our internet traffic ranges anywhere from 300Mb to 1Gb of data passing through at any given time and the product has handled it smoothly."

Mercy Medical Center is a 130+ year old, Catholic health care facility and teaching hospital for the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

"With Palo Alto Networks, we now know what we didn't know. And it's scary what some of our users and contractors were doing."

The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is one of the country's leading academic medical centers.

"Palo Alto Networks allow us to define and enforce appropriate user policies so that the business of the hospital always comes first, risk is minimized and our medical professionals retain maximum flexibility."

ThedaCare is a community health system providing a wide range of health services to residents of central Wisconsin.

"Our old security infrastructure didn't allow us to break down traffic on our network. Palo Alto Networks helps us see exactly how our network bandwidth is being used and ensure that applications are safely enabled for business purposes."

Nordson Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer of systems that apply adhesives, sealants and coatings.

"The PA-4020 has simplified the tasks of managing security at our remote site. And it gives us visibility that no one else can match, telling us exactly which applications are on the network."

Curt G. Joa Inc. (JOA) is one of the world's leading engineering and specialty manufacturers of machinery for the production of disposable products.

"I don't get enthusiastic very often, but the Palo Alto Networks firewall thrills me. I can easily go in to see user activity, denied sources or anything. It's simple, intuitive and effective."

Iberdrola Inmobiliaria comienza su actividad en 1993 unificando las sociedades inmobiliarias de Iberdrola. A partir de 1995 intensifica su trayectoria como promotora residencial. En 1999 se impulsa considerablemente la inversión enfocando la actividad a tres grandes áreas esencialmente, promoción de viviendas, promoción y explotación de patrimonio en alquiler, y gestión y promoción de suelo.

“Tras el análisis de varios fabricantes, decidimos optar por la tecnología de Palo Alto Networks, especialmente por las posibilidades del filtrado a nivel de aplicación, y por la integración con el Directorio Activo. Actualmente los dos PA-500 en alta disponibilidad controlan totalmente todas las zonas de red de Iberdrola Inmobiliaria: Sedes remotas, LAN VPN con Iberdrola, Acceso a Internet desde nuestra red, y DMZ (B2B y microsites comerciales)”.

Farm Credit Financial Partners is the premier provider of technology services to farm credit associations throughout the U.S.

"...the model Gartner suggests for a next generation firewall is exactly what Palo Alto Networks built."

Qualcomm is a wireless telecommunications research and development company, as well as the largest fabless chip supplier in the world.

"They (Palo Alto Networks) provided us high throughput firewalling and high throughput IPS. We were able to do antivirus and at the same time we were able to do application based firewalling which was one of our biggest requirements at the time."

Princeton Technology Corp. is a professional IC design company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with a branch in Torrance, USA, an R&D center in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and representative offices in Shenzhen and Japan to serve Asian customers.

"The PA series greatly simplified the IT Department's tasks in administrating information security within each branch; they also helped us identify the kind of applications each employee is running over the network."

Sermicro is a technology solutions and ITC business process outsourcing company in Madrid, Spain.

"La gran ventaja que nos ha proporcionado Palo Alto Networks en nuestra empresa ha sido una reducción de costes fijos derivados de otros dispositivos necesarios en la red, como por ejemplo, el filtrado de URL o el IPS. La reducción especifica de estos costes ha llegado a hacer del 75%...sin sufrir ningún tipo de modificación en el comportamiento normal de la red."

Cricket Communications, Inc.,  is a leading provider of unlimited, no-contract wireless services with more than 4 million subscribers nationwide.

"Palo Alto's products are the best we've seen for traffic identification. They're easy to use, very accurate and it's extremely easy to drill down into the information to pinpoint abusers or threats and block them before they impact service."

Networx Australia specializes in security services and internet connectivity for medium to large enterprises in both the private and public corporate sectors.

"Palo Alto is the only single device that can give you the insights, the reports and the flexibility that we require. We needed a next-generation firewall to do it at gigabytes speed."

Reed is the UK's leading job site. Over 2 million jobseekers visit reed.co.uk every month, making over 45,000 job applications everyday.

"What Palo Alto Networks does is it allows me to put everything on one box. I have one cost, I have one management cost and I can reduce total cost of ownership."

PGI offers on-demand communications solutions for audio and web conferencing, document delivery, desktop fax, and notifications.

"It is one of the most simple devices I have ever had to configure and just ship out the door and just had it work."

Idealista is the leading real estate web portal in Spain with over 536,000 listings by individuals, agencies and developers.

"Con Palo Alto Networks, con un manera rápida y sencilla, podemos ver que está pasando en tiempo real a nivel de maquinas y de usuarios. Lo cual nos da tranquilidad de tener todo bajo control."

Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed Orient Overseas (International) Ltd. Headquartered in Hong Kong, OOCL is one of the world's largest integrated international container transportation and logistics companies, linking over 60 countries including Asia, Europe, North America, the Mediterranean, the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East and Australia/New Zealand.

"Our success in global infrastructure depends on our ability to provide instant access to critical business information for employees regardless of where they are located and what device they are using to access the network. With the Palo Alto Networks solution, we are now able to provide a consistent, controlled and secure network connection for everyone."

Europe Airpost est une compagnie aérienne française membre du groupe ASL aviation avec une double activité de transport de passagers sur les segments loisirs et charter et de transport de fret pour des opérateurs postaux et des opérateurs de fret express en Europe.

« Nous avons été agréablement surpris par l’interface conviviale et ergonomique, ainsi que par la facilité de gestion des applications offerte par le produit. Celui-ci correspondait à nos besoins et restait intéressant au niveau tarification. »