Case Study: Damen achieves unified Zero Trust security across 35 shipyards with Palo Alto Networks

Damen docks with Palo Alto Networks to add trusted confident cybersecurity

Damen, the Dutch family-owned shipbuilder with 12,500 staff and 35 shipyards worldwide, faced a fragmented cybersecurity posture: each yard ran its own local platforms to protect about 7,000 endpoints, creating complexity, elevated risk, and heavy operational overhead. The company needed a single global Zero Trust strategy with centralized visibility and secure, fast remote connectivity to keep shipbuilding and repair operations running without interruption.

Damen standardized on a Palo Alto Networks portfolio (ML-powered NGFWs, Prisma Access, Cloud-Delivered Security Services, Panorama and Cortex XDR) deployed and managed by ON2IT’s 24/7 SOC, delivering unified visibility, automated threat response, and plug‑and‑play secure connectivity. The result is a simplified Zero Trust architecture that reduced risk and costs, cut workstation reinstalls by 90%, enabled new shipyards to go live in hours, and freed IT teams to focus on strategic security work.

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Hans Quivooij

Chief Information Security Officer