Case Study: Hydro Tasmania achieves a seamless, secure work-from-home transition for 1,200 employees with Palo Alto Networks

Hydro Tasmania seamlessly transitions to work from home across Australia

Hydro Tasmania, Australia’s largest renewable energy generator and water manager with about 1,250 employees across Tasmania, Melbourne, Adelaide and India, needed to modernize a fragmented network and security estate to improve connectivity, reduce costs, and support business continuity. Multiple firewall technologies and uneven user experience—especially for remote and mobile workers—made a consolidated, scalable, user-centric security model a priority.

By deploying Palo Alto Networks Next‑Generation Firewalls, Panorama for centralized management, and Prisma Access for cloud‑delivered secure remote access (with delivery support from Data#3), Hydro Tasmania unified security and applied Zero Trust principles. The result was simplified operations, lower hardware and management costs, improved visibility and protection, and a seamless overnight shift of 1,200 staff to work from home during COVID‑19 with zero disruption to customers.

Hydro Tasmania

Fletcher Davidson

IT Operations Manager