Modernizing networks to scale for growth.
As one of the world’s leading digital payments providers, the company had long relied on traditional on-premises infrastructure. But as it accelerated its shift to the public cloud to drive innovation and growth, new challenges emerged in managing security, compliance, and operational efficiency across a multi-cloud environment.
- Fragmented governance across hybrid environments.
- Costly backhaul driving latency and inefficiency.
- Complex compliance requirements across regions.
- Inability to deploy firewalls at speed.
“We’ve been a Palo Alto Networks shop for quite a while, and the ability to manage policies through a single pane of glass made the decision clear. A threat is a threat, regardless of whether it's on-prem or in the cloud, so our security posture needed to be consistent."
- Director of Network Security
The customer evaluated multiple vendors based on performance, throughput, and ease of deployment across workloads in a multi-cloud environment.
Palo Alto Networks Software Firewalls, backed by its leading cloud delivered security services, emerged as the clear choice by providing consistent policy management and a unified operating model across hybrid environments.
Mapping Software Firewall Capabilities to Architectural Requirements
Consistent Security Across Environments
Layer 7 visibility, threat prevention, and IDS/IPS capabilities
Unified Policy Management
Via Panorama leveraging existing on-premises rule sets
Ease of Integration with Existing Tooling
Preserve customer monitoring visibility and operational workflows
Performance and Throughput at Scale
On-prem parity in the cloud
Operational Simplicity
Single pane of glass across GCP, AWS, and Azure
Low-Risk Validation Path
Validation in test and dev environments
“Palo Alto Networks provides ease of deployment. Europe has data requirements. APAC has data requirements. We have to build in these regions quickly to support the business. Palo Alto Networks allows us to scale quickly.”
- Director of Network Security
The Fintech Company is making investments to ensure that as the business grows into new markets and launches next-generation payment services, security remains consistent, agile, and future-ready.
- Standardize on Palo Alto Networks: Consolidate its firewall vendors with Palo Alto Networks as its primary security partner due to the technical performance of solutions and quality of support.
- Deepen Platformization: Upgrade its hardware firewalls, while deepening its use of Software Firewalls and integrated cloud services to secure its expanding global footprint.
- Leverage Managed Services to Scale: Offload management of scaling and auto-expansion to Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud, freeing teams to focus on policy governance while reducing operational burden.
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