Case Study: TEC Partnership achieves 24/7 proactive threat protection and unified multicampus security with Palo Alto Networks (delivered via KHIPU XMDR)

Proactively protecting one of England’s largest providers of further and higher education

TEC Partnership is one of England’s largest further and higher education providers, with nearly 20 sites, more than 10,000 students, 1,200 staff and over 3,100 endpoints. Facing rising ransomware and cyberthreats, a BYOD culture and stretched IT resources, the institution needed a cost‑effective, unified security strategy that covered multicampus, cloud and on‑prem environments and provided 24/7 protection while moving toward Zero Trust.

TEC Partnership deployed KHIPU Networks’ eXtended Managed Detection and Response (XMDR) service powered by Palo Alto Networks (ML‑Powered NGFWs, Cortex XDR, XSOAR, Cortex Data Lake, Threat Prevention, URL Filtering, GlobalProtect) to deliver continuous SOC monitoring, automated playbooks and AI‑driven detection and response. The solution unified visibility and instant containment, reduced alerts by about 30% as ML tuned to user behavior, saved the equivalent of one FTE annually, and enabled faster, around‑the‑clock incident handling and sector‑wide intelligence sharing.

TEC Partnership

Harshad Taylor

Group Executive Director of IT