Introducing Idira, the next-generation identity security platform.

Leading data management provider secures and consolidates its global security using Palo Alto Networks platform

SUMMARY

This leader in global data management is trusted by the world’s leading banks, telcos, and other organisations to secure sensitive information and accelerate business objectives with trusted, high-quality, governed data. When the organisation embarked on a clean-sheet, enterprise-wide, cloud-first transformation strategy, it was being held back by its legacy cybersecurity point solutions – which had bred complexity, duplication, and higher costs.

The leading data management provider turned to Palo Alto Networks for a modern security platform to match its growth ambitions. This unified platform approach, spanning network, endpoint, and cloud security, works intelligently to strengthen security, simplify operations, and lower costs.

RESULTS

€300,000
per year

saved in cloud security

5
hours

to remediate Log4J event

Minutes not hours

to detect threats

CHALLENGE

Point security reactive, not proactive

This global data management leader recently refreshed its technology infrastructure around a cloud-native strategy, geared to driving agility, customer growth, and faster innovation. This modernisation demanded complete reform of its existing network, endpoint, and cloud security to enable a scalable, future-proofed system to support rapid business growth. The challenges were:

Provide the holistic visibility, control, and management required to lead the business into the future.
Cut through the noise created by its legacy endpoint security to reduce false positives, automate alert triage, and enhance cybersecurity efficiency.
Ensure its 150 developers had an agile, automated means of securing the application lifecycle to eliminate risk across code/build, infrastructure, and runtime.
Expand multicloud security beyond the scope of its cloud service providers’ individual native security.

“Without Cortex, we’d be flying blind. The tool set gives us full, immediate visibility into every type of incident so we can mitigate the problem in minutes. That gives us back more time to focus on other security tasks.”

— IT Director

A leading data management provider

SOLUTION

Simplifying operations and reducing costs

The organisation standardised on a single, connected Palo Alto Networks platform to close security gaps, reduce complexity, and lower the total product cost of ownership.

Security journey

Network security

PA-series Hardware Firewalls

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Endpoint security

Cortex XDR

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Cloud security

Prisma Cloud

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“When we tell clients we’re using Palo Alto Networks, it’s a real boost to negotiations. They are satisfied their data is secure from every type of threat.”

— IT Director

A leading data management provider

“Without Cortex, we’d be flying blind. The tool set gives us full, immediate visibility into every type of incident so we can mitigate the problem in minutes. That gives us back more time to focus on other security tasks.”

— IT Director

A leading data management provider

Simple, consistent network security

This leading data management provider selected Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) powered by Precision AI^® for their holistic visibility, speed to insight, and simplicity compared to other vendors’.

The organisation has now deployed NGFWs in three branches (in high availability mode) and across its offices worldwide, leveraging inline deep machine learning to stay ahead of unknown zero-day attacks. This proactive, cloud-based approach ensures simplicity and scale while raising the bar in protection. The NGFWs also deliver site-to-site security across all users, data, devices, and applications.
Accelerating detection and remediation

Cortex XDR^® was a logical next step in the organisation’s platformization strategy, ingesting logs and data simply and seamlessly from NGFWs and endpoints. This modern, flexible approach to endpoint security also supports every type of platform, including Linux workstations. The integration between the NGFWs and Cortex XDR correlates endpoint and network data, allowing AI and analytics to find threats and create high-fidelity incidents.

Full threat visibility and analytics enable the organisation to detect threats within two minutes. The mean time to repair (MTTR) is equally impressive: with incidents often resolved in days.
Securing apps from design to runtime

Attention then turned to the organisation’s 150 developers, who were under pressure to keep pace with customer demand for new cloud data management services.

Replacing the native security in Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS, Prisma Cloud protects the organisation’s applications from code to cloud, preventing breaches and reducing risks. It detects and blocks untrusted images before deployment and protects its cloud apps from zero-day threats at runtime.

Efficiencies derived from using the tool are saving the organisation an estimated $300,000 annually.