Case Study: STCU achieves secure, consolidated network operations and cost savings with Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform

Regional Credit Union Banks on Security Operating Platform to Protect Digitized Assets and Enable Secure Operations

STCU is a not-for-profit regional credit union (founded 1934) serving 170,000+ members with more than 640 employees. As the credit union digitized banking and back-office operations, its legacy firewalls, separate proxy servers and VPN appliance left visibility gaps and cumbersome, costly administration, creating risk to member data and a need to enable secure, productive remote and on-site work.

STCU consolidated onto the Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform (PA appliances plus Threat Prevention, URL Filtering, WildFire, GlobalProtect and Panorama), gaining application- and user-aware visibility, centralized management and cloud-based threat analysis. The platform automatically blocks hundreds to thousands of attempted attacks daily, extends next‑generation protection to mobile/remote users, reduces management time, and avoids several thousand dollars in upgrade, support and licensing costs through device consolidation.

STCU

Shawn Hafen

Information Security Analyst