Case Study: Seymour Public Schools achieves automatic threat prevention and 25% bandwidth gains with Palo Alto Networks

Small-Town System Gains Big Value in Fight Against Cyberthreats With Security Lifecycle Review and Security Operating Platform From Palo Alto Networks

Seymour Public Schools, a K–12 district in Seymour, Connecticut serving about 2,200 students in a town of roughly 16,500, faced rising cyberthreats while operating on tight budgets and legacy Cisco ASA firewalls. Unsure how exposed its network was, the district needed a way to strengthen security for both the schools and the town without a large capital outlay.

Working with Palo Alto Networks and partner Digital BackOffice, Seymour ran a Security Lifecycle Review and then deployed a Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform with a next‑generation firewall configured as two virtual instances for school and town use, plus Threat Prevention, URL Filtering and WildFire subscriptions. The deployment closed gaps that had let more than 43,000 threats slip through, automatically prevented attacks, boosted employee productivity via content filtering, improved bandwidth utilization by about 25%, and delivered strong ROI through shared infrastructure and reduced remediation effort.

Seymour Public Schools

Rob Dyer

Director of Technology