Case Study: OSRAM achieves $120,000 annual savings and centralized next‑generation security with Palo Alto Networks

World’s Leading Light Manufacturer Saves $120,000 Per Year by Replacing 78 Proxy Servers

OSRAM, a century-old global lighting manufacturer with thousands of employees and operations across dozens of countries, was struggling with a highly decentralized network: inconsistent site rules, limited visibility into application traffic, and slow, manual security changes that required updating 78 proxy servers and over 1,000 lines of configuration. The result was high operational overhead, poor troubleshooting visibility, and difficulty protecting intellectual property and supporting business needs quickly.

OSRAM standardized on Palo Alto Networks next‑generation firewalls with Panorama centralized management, GlobalProtect and threat subscriptions, replacing 78 proxy servers with PA-200s and additional PA appliances. The deployment cut hardware/software and maintenance costs by about $120,000 per year, reduced administrative effort by 50%, improved troubleshooting speed by over 50%, decreased support requests tenfold, cleaned up logs by ~95%, and delivered global policy consistency and stronger security.

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Steffen Siguda

Corporate InfoSec Officer and Data Protection Officer