Case Study: University of Technology Sydney achieves comprehensive multicloud visibility and simplified compliance with Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

With Prisma Cloud, UTS gains comprehensive visibility, contextual assessment, and simplifies compliance across multicloud environments

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS), a large public research university undergoing a shift from on‑premises data centres to a multicloud environment, faced limited visibility across cloud accounts, alert fatigue, manual remediation workflows, and complex regional compliance requirements. A small cybersecurity team needed a unified way to monitor diverse cloud services, add context to alerts, and simplify enforcement of standards across many accounts.

UTS deployed Prisma Cloud (initially CPSM, later CWP, Code Security and CIEM) to provide a single pane of glass for visibility, contextualized alerts, identity and workload protection, and cloud‑native compliance checks (including Australia‑specific standards like the Essential Eight). The platform centralized security across 90+ cloud accounts, reduced manual effort and resourcing needs (avoiding at least 0.5 FTE), improved detection and remediation, and continues to evolve with support from Palo Alto Networks’ Customer Success team.

University of Technology Sydney

Graham Allen

Senior IT Security Officer