Case Study: LOLC Holdings PLC achieves Zero Trust, simplified security operations, and 30% infrastructure cost savings with Palo Alto Networks

Zero Trust framework, security operations simplicity, and 30% infrastructure cost savings for LOLC Holdings PLC

LOLC Holdings PLC is a 12,000+–employee multinational conglomerate with operations across Asia, Africa and Australia that spans financial services, plantations, leisure, digital technologies and more. Facing pandemic-driven remote access, diverse regulatory requirements, legacy systems from frequent acquisitions, and high time-and-cost overhead for new branch setups, the group needed standardized, simplified security and a Zero Trust roadmap to centralize visibility and speed incident response.

LOLC partnered with Palo Alto Networks to deploy a unified stack—Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), Prisma Access, Prisma Cloud (CSPM and CWPP), Cortex XDR and Cortex Data Lake—implementing Zero Trust policies, automation and a path to an autonomous SOC. The results included 30% infrastructure cost savings when setting up new branches, much faster global branch provisioning, improved multi‑cloud visibility and compliance, simplified M&A integrations, and consistent secure access for remote users.

LOLC Holdings PLC

Prasanna Siriwardana

Chief Information Officer