Case Study: Unior Kovaška Industrija achieves end-to-end preventive security and 80% faster network issue identification with Palo Alto Networks

Slovenian Exporter Ships Out Cyberthreats With End-to-End Preventive Security

Unior Kovaška industrija, a leading Slovenian manufacturer with four diverse business units and over 3,800 employees, depends on a broad set of applications and networks—from industrial control systems to hotel reservation and POS systems. Facing increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats and limited visibility from legacy firewalls that only detected intrusions, Unior needed an end-to-end preventive security solution that protected endpoints, guest and core networks while maintaining reliable access to critical services.

Unior deployed the Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform—PA‑3020 next‑generation firewalls, WildFire malware analysis, Traps endpoint protection, GlobalProtect and Panorama management—to enforce application- and user-based policies and stop threats before they execute. The solution strengthened security across business units, prevented endpoint exploits with no performance hit, reduced time to identify network issues by about 80%, shortened security change cycles from weeks to hours, freed up bandwidth to delay costly expansion, and eliminated the need for third‑party management.

UNIOR Kovaška Industrija

Ivan Cizel

IT Manager