Palo Alto Networks

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."

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."

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."

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."

Charlotte Russe is a growing, mall-based specialty retailer of fashionable, value-priced apparel and accessories.

"Everyone we've worked with at Palo Alto has always gone above and beyond. It's an awesome technology and one that sells itself. The more we use it and learn about it, the more amazing the technology gets."

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."