Customers

Kristin School was founded in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1973 by a dedicated group of parents, with the goal of building and developing a world-class independent school. "What we liked best about the Palo Alto Networks solution is that it naturally met our requirements, rather than being forced to fit. When we started, it was still a very new company, but Palo Alto Networks is mature for a new product, and delivers on need, not fanciful wants."

Austrian Airlines is Austria’s largest carrier and operates a global network of routes to around 130 destinations. The company’s hub at Vienna International Airport is an ideal gateway between East and West. Austrian Airlines is part of the Lufthansa Group, Europe’s largest airline group. This Customer Story is available in German.

OSRAM is one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world. The company’s portfolio covers the entire value chain from components—including lamps, electronic control gear, and opto semiconductors such as light-emitting diodes (LED)—as well as luminaires, light management systems, and lighting solutions. The company, which is internationally oriented, had more than 34,000 employees worldwide and generated revenue of almost 5.1 billion Euros at the end of fiscal year 2014. The company’s business activities have been focused on light—and hence on quality of life—for over 100 years. This customer story is available in German.

IT service provider regio iT is a partner for city and district municipal authorities. With branches in Aachen and Gütersloh, regio iT helps around 320 customers and 20,500 clients from the municipal field meet challenges brought on by rapid development in the IT world and increasing cost pressures. regio iT’s current 340 employees take on the tasks of operating and supporting database and server systems as well as entire IT infrastructures for energy suppliers, waste disposal companies, schools, and non-profit organizations, and of managing the data of citizens within the region. Available in German.

MSC Cruises sails year round in the Mediterranean and offers a wide range of seasonal voyages in northern Europe, the Atlantic Ocean, the French Antilles and the Caribbean, South America, South Africa, and other popular destinations. In 2014, the 12 ships in its ultramodern fleet carried about 1.7 million travelers. This Customer Story is available in Italian.

The UK Cabinet Office Technology Transformation programme was established to replace an end-of-life outsourced IT service. The aim of the programme is to enable modern flexible ways of working and to provide civil servants with technology at least as good as they have at home. During user testing at the start of this project, staff told the UK Cabinet Office IT team that they wanted better connectivity; greater choice of applications; to be able to be more mobile with more portable devices and to be able to collaborate on documents in real time.

The UK Cabinet Office Technology Transformation programme was established to replace an end-of-life outsourced IT service. The aim of the programme is to enable modern flexible ways of working and to provide civil servants with technology at least as good as they have at home.

McLean County Unit School District No. 5 employs approximately 1,650 full and part time staff members to educate more than 13,600 students. The district consists of more than 214 square miles, with 16 elementary, 4 junior high and 2 high school buildings, 1 early learning center, and 1 vocational training site.

RheinLand Versicherungsgruppe knows all about preventing risks and protecting key assets. That’s because, as one of Europe’s leading insurance providers, its mission is to protect people, businesses, and financial assets from threats. Not surprisingly, RheinLand takes protecting others as seriously as it takes protecting the sensitive data of thousands of customers on its network. When RheinLand recognized it needed to increase security by better controlling applications and user access to key databases, it turned to Palo Alto Networks®. What did Palo Alto Networks do to better secure the network for this major insurance player? This case study is available in German.

Organizations around the globe continue to struggle with targeted attacks on the endpoint that bypass multiple layers of traditional controls. Golan Ben-Oni, IDT CSO talks about how the innovative approach and technology of Traps is a paradigm shift in endpoint security, and what that really means for his organization.

Annie Wright Schools proudly maintain Harry Potter-like traditions dating back over 100 years, but network latency, access, and an inability to support BYOD are modern IT problems that can’t be solved with magic. Because the school has boarding students, large amounts of bandwidth are needed at all times for educational, communication, and entertainment purposes. When the school’s incumbent legacy firewall could no longer handle throughput or support the evolving needs of users, and IT management became overwhelming, it needed a new modern solution.

Catholic Education South Australia (CESA) is a parent body that sets directions and policy development for Catholic schools in South Australia. It works in partnership with Catholic schools to provide a range of facilities and resources to support Catholic education and families.

McLean County Unit School District No. 5 employs approximately 1,650 full and part time staff members to educate more than 13,600 students. The district consists of more than 214 square miles, with 16 elementary, 4 junior high and 2 high school buildings, 1 early learning center, and 1 vocational training site.

Revera helps more than 30,000 seniors and other clients to live their lives to the fullest. With 50 years of experience, Revera has a deep understanding of the seniors they serve. Through its vibrant retirement communities, long term care homes, U.S. nursing and rehab centres, and dedicated home health team, Revera offers choices that enable its residents and clients to continue to be their best.

Large Multinational Defense Agency Fortifies its Network, Reduces Complexity and Saves Money with Palo Alto Networks^® Next-generation Security

Palo Alto Networks customers talk about WildFire, automated threat protection and the platform advantage.

Health Information Technology Services Nova Scotia (HITS-NS) provides IT services to district health authorities, and hosting services, internet access and remote connectivity to a network that includes 20,000 users in over 150 locations, interconnecting all the hospitals in Nova Scotia. Hear how HITS-NS is empowered as a result of having Palo Alto Networks WildFire technology in place.

Aardman Animations from Bristol/UK has a deserved reputation as a world leader in model animation. Their award-winning work leads the field producing a unique brand of independent film alongside work for broadcast and advertising spots. To date the studio proudly boasts four Oscars and ten Oscar nominations.

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."

The University of Westminster is an educational institution for the modern age. It delivers relevant, career-focused courses to more than 20,000 students from around the world—studying at campuses in central London and Harrow. The university works with Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewall solution, along with its security supplier Khipu Networks, to protect its networks and enable secure access to thousands of its users, whenever they need it and wherever they may be.

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."

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."

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."

An interview with Mark Starry, Director of Architecture and Security at Capital Region Health Care on why they chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls over Check Point Firewalls.

An interview with Richard Tso, Director of IT Infrastructure at ZipRealty on why they chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls over Check Point Firewalls.

An interview with Justin Kwong, Senior Director of IT Operations at 24 Hour Fitness on why they chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls over Check Point Firewalls.

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."

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."

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."

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."