Case Study: Royal Air Forces Association achieves 10 years of incident-free protection for 66,000+ with Palo Alto Networks

Safeguarding a global network of more than 66,000 against modern cyberthreats

The Royal Air Forces Association, a UK charity supporting more than 66,000 serving personnel, veterans and family members, needed a unified, highly flexible security solution to protect sensitive military data across branches, veterans’ homes and nurseries while operating on a constrained budget. The organisation required full visibility and easy management of north-south and east-west traffic to defend against international and web-based threats and to ensure reliable protection for its growing digital services.

By deploying Palo Alto Networks’ ML-powered next‑generation firewalls and integrated cloud-delivered security services (including WildFire, Advanced Threat Prevention and Advanced URL Filtering), the charity achieved automated, near‑real‑time threat visibility and protection that is simple to manage and cost‑effective to run. The platform has safeguarded the estate since 2014, protecting 66,000+ individuals and delivering ten years without a single cyber incident.

Royal Air Forces Association

Darren J. Bisbey

Infrastructure and Security Manager