Case Study: Blackrock Clinic achieves three days/month helpdesk time savings and improved network visibility with Palo Alto Networks PA-2050

Palo Alto Networks® Firewall Saves Valuable IT Time at Blackrock Clinic

Blackrock Clinic, Ireland’s leading private hospital, faced a pressing IT security and scalability challenge: its firewall environment relied on three separate, end-of-life solutions that required an average of seven complex maintenance updates a year (each taking up to three days) and struggled to give the granular visibility needed to protect confidential patient data amid a 30% rise in concurrent users.

The clinic deployed Palo Alto Networks PA-2050 firewalls in a resilient “two comms centre” configuration, consolidating protection into a single, easy-to-manage security engine with detailed application and user controls. The solution improved threat detection, restricted third-party access, freed significant bandwidth through granular access policies (avoiding costly connection upgrades), and recovered about three helpdesk days per month for business-critical work.

Blackrock Clinic

Conor McAteer

Security Administrator