Case Study: U.S. Regional Bank achieves $1.5M projected savings and stronger security with Palo Alto Networks' Prisma SASE

Banking on a better future with Prisma SASE

A U.S. regional bank with more than 200 branches across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic was held back by legacy infrastructure as it scaled through mergers and acquisitions. Rising traffic overwhelmed complex firewalls, backhauling degraded SaaS performance for users, and delays in implementing Zero Trust increased operational risk.

Palo Alto Networks implemented Next‑Generation Firewalls at each branch and deployed Prisma SASE—Prisma SD‑WAN and Prisma Access—plus Advanced Threat Prevention and cloud migrations to centralize security and improve visibility. The rollout delivered better network and application performance, faster onboarding of acquisitions, streamlined operations, and significant savings: $1.5M projected over three years (including $427K in connectivity savings) and an estimated 49,000 hours of downtime avoided.