Case Study: Fortune 500 Beverage Manufacturer achieves Zero Trust and zero ransomware incidents with Palo Alto Networks

Manufacturing plants around the world protect critical operations with Zero Trust

A Fortune 500 global beverage manufacturer with 200+ sites in more than 100 countries faced growing complexity and risk after migrating to the cloud: more than a dozen ransomware incidents per year, the need to secure 25,000+ employees worldwide, and the operational overhead of managing six different security vendors with disparate policies and management planes.

Beginning in 2017 the company partnered with Palo Alto Networks to implement a Zero Trust architecture—VM-Series and PA-Series NGFWs, Prisma SD‑WAN, Prisma Cloud, SASE, and GlobalProtect (including a bespoke deployment on 55,000 beverage machines)—and consolidated security services like Advanced Threat Protection, WildFire, and URL filtering. The initiative eliminated ransomware incidents, cut compromised endpoint incidents for remote workers by 75%, reduced management overhead by 90%, and delivered millions in projected vendor-consolidation savings while streamlining operations and improving employee and customer experience.