Case Study: German Food Wholesaler secures its critical supply chain and avoids €1.5M/day outages with Palo Alto Networks

Shielding a critical-infrastructure food supply chain from cyberthreats

A leading German food wholesaler with €250M in revenue and 650 staff faced a critical challenge: perishable goods and a 24/7 supply chain that could lose €1.5 million per day during a data outage. A fragmented mix of firewalls and endpoint tools—managed by a four-person IT team—created complexity, gaps in intelligence sharing, and operational risk that threatened continuous operations and customer service.

The company consolidated onto a single Palo Alto Networks security platform (ML‑powered NGFWs, Panorama, Cortex XDR, WildFire and other cloud-delivered services), gaining unified visibility, automated protection, and faster incident response. The result: no cyberattack-related outages in eight years, avoidance of the potential €1.5M daily loss, progress toward Zero Trust, reduced operational burden for the small IT team, and stable cyber insurance premiums.