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Forrester Consulting study details the benefits, costs and risks.
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## Software firewalls deliver 163% ROI
Learn how Palo Alto Networks software firewalls deliver quantified benefits.
> We had significant cost savings ...
> Moving to Palo Alto Networks (software firewalls) means we're not wasting tons of procurement time on firewall purchases.
\---Study participant, enterprise infrastructure architect, government
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** $5.98M
### Benefits realized over three years
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** $1.8M
### Firewall deployment and maintenance savings
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** $1.6M
### Data breach reduction savings
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Forrester Consulting's
Total Economic Impact™
2023
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## Explore Palo Alto Networks software firewalls
Effectively secure applications in public, private, hybrid and multicloud environments.
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### Any network.
All clouds.
Secured.
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** 67%
### Reduction in end-user downtime.
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** 50%
### Reduction in time required to attain security posture.
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** 700k+
### Avoided hardware spend per year.
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