PaloAlto networks

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."

Greenhill & Co., Inc. is a leading independent global investment bank that provides financial advise on significant mergers, acquisitions and restructurings and manages merchant banking funds.

"We needed better visibility into our network in order to block access to certain applications – especially Gmail over HTTPS."

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."

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."

The 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."

Koch Logistics is a transportation logistics company providing third party transportation, shipping and distribution services.

"With Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall, now we can not only see what’s on our network, we can control it. The result is I’m confident in our ability to protect our network from harmful applications and other risks."

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."

Sonic Solutions designs and manufactures DVD publishing systems used to prepare music, video, film, graphics and entertainment software.

"Our existing security solution is blind to traffic flowing across port 80. Palo Alto Networks provides us with user-based application visibility and control."

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."

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"

City of Seattle is a commercial hub of the Pacific Northwest and a major port city for trans-Pacific and European travel and trade.

"Palo Alto Networks has created a new generation of security device that identifies applications – not just ports, protocols and source/destination IP addresses – and enforces policies concerning application usage.The granular visibility and control that Palo Alto Networks gives us has allowed us to re-write and enforce our acceptable application usage policies and protect the city."

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."

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."

Sisters of Mercy Health System is the ninth largest Catholic healthcare system in the U.S. and provides critical services across seven states.

"With the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), firewall and other functionality the Palo Alto Networks firewall offers all in one box, it makes sense to switch to Palo Alto Networks."

Peirce College is a private, four-year, specialized institution providing practical, leading edge curricula primarily to working adult learners.

"In my career I’ve yet to see a major infrastructure piece go in as smoothly as the installation of the Palo Alto Networks firewall."

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."

SANS What Works Webcast: Tapping Unexpected Benefits of IPS + Next-Gen Firewall at Farm Credit Financial Partners
Frustrated with a lack of integration with his end of life intrusion prevention system, the Information Security Director at Farm Credit Financial Partners began a search for a new solution. The product he chose offered the added benefit of a next generation firewall, as well as significant cost savings in people, software, maintenance and hardware.

Enabling the Collaborative Enterprise Without Putting Your Company at Risk
Collaboration is a strategic business imperative in today’s economy. But how do you enable applications such as WebEx, Facebook and Skype without introducing risks of malware attacks, data leakage and other threats? Watch this ISSA webcast to learn how.

Stopping the Hemorrhaging of Personal Health Information
Eric Johnson, professor at Tuck Business School, presents provocative research about the availability of personal health information on P2P networks. Chris King of Palo Alto Networks provides prescriptive guidance to mitigate these risks.

Interview with Palo Alto Networks CTO and Founder Nir Zuk
Watch Nir Zuk in an engaging interview with security analyst Richard Stiennon from RSA 2009. Nir discusses his motivation for founding Palo Alto Networks, the challenges with stateful inspection firewalls and his vision of network security.

Why Bad Security Breaches Keep Happening to Good Organizations
Join security industry innovator Nir Zuk, CTO of Palo Alto Networks and Dark Reading editor, TIm Wilson for a candid discussion on how breaches occur, what they cost, and why today's traditional network security environments fall short.

Nir Zuk Speaks at Security Conference
At a recent security conference in Stuttgart, Germany, Nir Zuk spoke to a roomful of IT professionals on the limitations of traditional firewall technology, and the benefits of Palo Alto Networks to address new requirements for application control and threat management.

InfoSecurity Webcast: What Applications Are on YOUR Network?
Palo Alto Network shares key findings, analysis, and recommendations from its just released Application Usage and Risk Report, which is based on actual network traffic in more than 60 large enterprises representing nearly a million users.

SANS What Works Webcast: Better Firewall Functionality and Cost Savings at Haworth
Learn why this leading manufacturer of organic workspaces investigated new firewall options and why the selected Palo Alto Networks to provide increaded functionality and granular controls over web 2.0 apps.

PCI Webcast: Reducing PCI Compliance Burden with Network Segmentation
Watch this webcast featuring John Kindervag, a Forrester Research PCI expert and Palo Alto Networks and learn how network segmentation can help reduce the cost and complexity of your PCI compliance burden.

SANS Tool Talk: How to Stop Threats that Target Applications
Join Nir Zuk, CTO Palo Alto Networks and SANS for an educational discussion on emerging threats, insight into why traditional firewalls can't control them, and advice on what organizations can do about this problem going forward.

The Rise of User Circumvention and Risky Unauthorized Activities
Chris King from Palo Alto Networks discusses user circumvention - how end users are actively skirting IT security controls with anonymous, external proxies and tunneling applications, enabling risky and unauthorized activities.

New Directions in Firewalls for Emerging Web 2.0 Threats
Industry experts Nir Zuk, CTO of Palo Alto Networks and Joel Scambray, author of the Hacking Exposed book series, discuss the latest threats, analyze how Web 2.0 technology traverses secure perimeters and explain how firewalls must evolve to address these issues.

How to Safely Leverage New Internet Applications
Steve Gold Infosecurity Magazine, talks with Chris King, Palo Alto Networks and Jon Biskner, Nicolet National Bank about the behavior and risks of specific Internet applications and the IT management strategy being employed to control them.