Case Study: Bourse de Casablanca achieves secure, low-latency trading with Palo Alto Networks

High performance protection for one of Africa’s leading stock exchanges

Bourse de Casablanca, Morocco’s leading stock exchange and the second-largest in Africa, faced growing pressure to secure a complex mix of data centres, servers, cloud environments and third‑party integrations while meeting strict financial compliance and delivering uninterrupted, low‑latency trading. Its legacy security platform required increasing administrator effort to fix resilience and performance issues, putting 24x7 high‑performance operations at risk.

Working with partner Munisys, the Exchange deployed two Palo Alto Networks ML‑Powered Next‑Generation Firewalls with Threat Prevention and GlobalProtect, adding App‑ID and User‑ID controls and automated, ML‑driven threat detection and isolation. The deployment delivered sub‑5ms latency, near‑real‑time data centre sync, improved 360° visibility, automated protection against advanced threats, 100% availability for critical systems in 2021, and lower total cost of ownership.

Bourse de Casablanca

Mohamed Saad

Deputy Chief Executive Officer