Case Study: Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board secures 60,000 Chromebooks and cuts support tickets by 90% with Palo Alto Networks Prisma Browser

Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board secures 60,000 Chromebooks in 1 day with Palo Alto Networks

The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, a large school district in Ontario, faced significant challenges with a legacy security solution that disrupted classroom learning. Their previous endpoint protection was easily bypassed by students, caused application compatibility issues, and created high operational overhead for their small network team. They partnered with Palo Alto Networks to find a better approach to edge protection.

Palo Alto Networks implemented its Prisma Browser extension, which enforces security natively at the browser level, eliminating the need for complex SSL decryption. The solution provided always-on enforcement that students could not disable and streamlined administration through a single console. As a result, the school board secured 60,000 Chromebooks in a single day and achieved a 90% reduction in cybersecurity support tickets, freeing resources to focus on critical infrastructure projects.

Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board