Case Study: Asklepios achieves Zero Trust network security, real-time threat detection and automated response with Palo Alto Networks

Protecting the IT backbone of one of Germany’s largest healthcare providers

Asklepios, one of Germany’s largest private healthcare providers with about 170 facilities and roughly 69,000 staff serving millions of patients, faced an aging, fragmented IT landscape that hindered integration with modern medical systems, slowed threat detection, and increased compliance risk. To become Germany’s most digital healthcare organisation by 2025, they needed complete network visibility, a network-wide Zero Trust approach, and automation to free scarce IT resources for strategic work while protecting patient data.

Asklepios standardised on the Palo Alto Networks portfolio—ML-powered next‑generation firewalls, Panorama, and Cortex XSOAR—deploying nearly 100 NGFWs and orchestration playbooks across its estate. The solution delivered near‑real‑time traffic insight, automated prevention and remediation, fourfold gains in cases handled by security teams, stronger compliance posture, and reduced operational risk, supporting safer patient care and the organisation’s digital ambitions.

Asklepios

Daniel Maier-Johnson

Chief Information Security Officer