Case Study: Vocational Training Council (VTC) achieves a secure, always-on high-performance campus network with Palo Alto Networks PA-2050

Sure Speedy and Safely In Controlled Campus Network Environment

The Vocational Training Council (VTC), Hong Kong’s largest vocational education and training group serving some 230,000 students, faced growing pressure from social networking and P2P traffic, sophisticated hacker attacks and DDoS incidents. Relying on traditional firewalls left the campus with limited visibility into web 2.0 applications, weak user-based controls and slow incident response, creating bandwidth congestion and risky downtime.

VTC deployed the Palo Alto Networks PA-2050, gaining application- and user-level visibility, AD-based user mapping and built-in threat prevention in a single high-performance appliance. The solution was quick to configure and immediately enabled blocking of unwanted traffic, faster reporting and more accurate user permissions—delivering a safer, always-on campus network with improved performance and lower management costs.

Vocational Training Council (VTC)

Oliver Sha

Systems Manager