{"id":110903,"date":"2020-05-05T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=110903"},"modified":"2020-07-09T17:18:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:18:02","slug":"network-remote-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/network-remote-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Power the New Normal with Prisma Access: Delivering Next-Gen Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our mission at Palo Alto Networks is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our customers\u2019 digital way of life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">COVID-19 has proven to be a disruptive event of historic proportions. There is hardly an enterprise, government, learning center, industry or community that has not been impacted by this pandemic. The current environment has forced a transition that most of our customers did not expect. Enterprises, though, are now starting to plan with the idea that managing large remote workforces will be the new normal long after the effects of the virus abate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having an infrastructure designed for highly secure worldwide access that enables employees, students and civil servants to work and learn from anywhere across the globe is now a core requirement for public and private organizations. The pandemic is only accelerating the development of business architectures that the cloud, IoT and automation have long been influencing, and the cyber threats associated with these shifts. Securing the edge through cloud-delivered solutions is part of these changes. Palo Alto Networks has been at the front line of these accelerated transitions, and we are helping our customers rapidly and securely scale millions of remote workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/prisma\/access\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prisma Access<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> provides cloud-delivered security and access to employees anywhere in the world. It rapidly enables a mobile workforce, without the need for additional hardware or infrastructure deployment. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working with customers in every industry, we have found that the following principles are critical to ensure a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/cloud-securing-remote-workforces\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">scalable and secure remote workforce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. These principles are more important today than ever before when architecting remote work solutions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Best-in-class cloud-delivered security including sandboxing, cloud Secure Web Gateway, DNS security, and Data Loss Prevention for all applications.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Five nines reliable, premium tier-one global network for secure access from anywhere.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Accelerated deployment with the ability to automatically scale to thousands of users globally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Software-based cloud security, managed by a carrier-grade, fault-tolerant scalable infrastructure in the cloud.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dedicated network and security computing infrastructure per customer vs. shared, fixed-point infrastructure helps Prisma Access provide stringent performance service-level agreements (SLAs).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When we say millions of users, we mean it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We support those millions of users on Prisma Access, a platform we built from the ground up for agility and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/network-secure-access\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">scalability<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This global architecture helps us provide low-latency, reliable access for all applications, no matter where they are hosted, and an uninterrupted and excellent user experience, without compromising security.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just in the last couple of months, Prisma Access effortlessly scaled over<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">three times the aggregate capacity, helping our global enterprise customers scale their remote workforce overnight as shown in the graph below. We have also seen over a seven times increase in users at any given time, further validating our resilient platform and scale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110904\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><div style=\"max-width:100%\" data-width=\"900\"><span class=\"ar-custom\" style=\"padding-bottom:53.89%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  class=\"wp-image-110904 lozad\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/graph2.2.png\" alt=\"This graph shows how Prisma Access was able to scale to help global enterprise customers scale for increased remote work virtually overnight. \" width=\"900\" height=\"485\" \/><\/span><\/div><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1: Automatic scaling of Prisma Access to meet additional user capacity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am extremely proud of what our team has built here. Innovations like these are helping our customers navigate through uncertainty and architect the new normal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Shira, Principal, Global, and US Chief Information and Technology Officer, PwC, recently talked about their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/prepared-new-normal-james-shira\/?trackingId=SazCiG2fQg%2BNEiaJ68pG6w%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">forward-looking digital strategy powered by Prisma Access<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which enabled the organization to support over 225,000 remote workers with no business interruptions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=319MxfeK-ao\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schlumberger<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> went from a 25,000 remote user base to 80,000 users working remotely very quickly, without any disruptions, all made possible by Prisma Access.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As educational institutions adapt to distance learning, we are here to support them. One example is Alameda County Office of Education, where we played a critical role in providing a secure environment both for students and teachers. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ryan-choate-a33b701\/\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryan Choate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Director of IT and Network Services at Alameda County Office of Education says\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re here to make sure our kids and teachers get the most out of every online learning opportunity safely and securely. Palo Alto Networks is central to making that possible.\u201d We appreciate his support.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are most certainly challenging times for businesses and communities alike, and there are more hurdles ahead. But we are also hopeful that our innovations in their own small way show the ingenuity of people working together to help customers embrace cloud and mobility with ease and simplicity. We are here to support your growth and become your cybersecurity partner on your digital journey and transformation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Register for this live panel <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/register.paloaltonetworks.com\/securityexperts\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">webcast, \u201cManaging the Cyber Risks of Remote Work,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on May 14, 2020, to hear industry experts share insights on how to navigate cybersecurity threats facing organizations as they accelerate their capabilities and infrastructure to support the increase in remote workers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learn more about how we can help <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/remote-security\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">empower organizations to work securely from anywhere<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how Prisma Access provides cloud-delivered security to help our global enterprise customers scale for remote work virtually overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":108494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6768,6765],"tags":[7050,6833,102],"coauthors":[7076],"class_list":["post-110903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secure-the-cloud","category-secure-the-enterprise","tag-covid-19","tag-prisma-access","tag-remote-access"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_2009.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113629,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110903\/revisions\/113629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110903"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=110903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}