Palo Alto Networks today announced that Garland Independent School District (ISD), one of the largest school districts in Texas, has replaced its outdated security infrastructure with the PA-4000 Series next-generation firewall. The district now enjoys an even more robust capability for protecting its students from an ever-increasing range of inappropriate content.
Garland ISD, comprising 65 schools and 57,000 students, is one of the largest in Texas. The district’s legacy security infrastructure made it increasingly difficult for its IT organization to manage and control application use. Importantly, Garland ISD needed granular visibility into proxy applications and anonymizers that enabled network users to circumvent security policy -- often at the expense of exposure to malware, viruses and unacceptable materials.
"Our students are our first concern, so when our former security infrastructure did not offer the application visibility and control we required to protect them from inappropriate content, we didn’t hesitate to make a change," said Neal Moss, Network Engineer for Garland Independent School District. "The PA-4000 Series greatly improved network and application performance while giving us instant, sustainable control over the applications and content our network."
"Evasive applications can wreak havoc on any organization, especially school districts," said Steve Mullaney, Vice President of Marketing for Palo Alto Networks. "Garland’s IT team knew that remaining in control of the applications running across its network was the only way it could protect its users. Palo Alto’s products enable organizations of all sizes to regain the control and visibility needed to meet the highest level of security standards."
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks™ enables visibility and policy control of applications running on enterprise networks. Based on innovative App-ID™ application classification technology, the Palo Alto Networks PA-4000 Series next-generation firewall accurately identifies applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or even SSL encryption – at 10Gbps with no performance degradation. Enterprises can now set and enforce application usage policies to meet compliance requirements, improve threat mitigation and lower operational costs. The Palo Alto Networks team includes security and networking industry veterans from Check Point, NetScreen, McAfee, Cisco, Juniper and Blue Coat. It is backed by investors Globespan Capital Partners, Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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