{"id":310423,"date":"2023-12-14T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=310423"},"modified":"2023-12-11T13:35:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T21:35:41","slug":"research-shows-roi-with-software-firewalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/research-shows-roi-with-software-firewalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Shows 163% ROI with Palo Alto Networks Software Firewalls"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Forrester Consulting Study Now Available<\/h2>\n

Good news is here for cloud and network security professionals who need proven, cost-effective solutions that substantially reduce downtime and breaches across a range of cloud and virtualized environments. Palo Alto Networks software firewalls not only provide superb security for applications and workloads in all clouds and networks but also pay for themselves.<\/p>\n

Find the details about a composite organization representative of interviewed and surveyed customers who realized a significant 163% return on investment (ROI) over 3 years. Those surveyed had no initial investment in the recently released Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Palo Alto Networks \u2013 The Total Economic Impact\u2122 of Palo Alto Networks Software Firewalls<\/a>. You\u2019ll discover how our family of software Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) \u2013 virtual, container, managed cloud service \u2013 provided $3.70 million in benefits over a period of 3 years.<\/p>\n

<\/a>See Cost Avoidance Measured in Seven Figures<\/h2>\n

So where do these figures come from? The Forrester study leveraged in-depth interviews, extensive surveying and deep financial analysis to create a composite organization, which experienced benefits of $5.98 million over 3 years, versus costs of $2.28 million. All this added up to a net present value (NPV) of $3.70 million, which means the composite organization ended up getting more financial benefits than it initially invested.<\/p>\n

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3-year ROI, present value (PV) benefits and net present value (NPV) Palo Alto Networks software firewalls. Taken from The Total Economic Impact of Palo Alto Networks Software Firewalls, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Palo Alto Networks, October 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The comprehensive study looks at a range of environments modern enterprises rely upon: hybrid clouds, multiclouds, private clouds, single public clouds. Software firewalls, covered by the study, comprise VM-Series virtual firewalls<\/a>, CN-Series container firewalls<\/a>, as well as managed cloud firewall services, such as Cloud NGFW for AWS<\/a> and Cloud NGFW for Azure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Understand How More Efficient Security Added Up<\/h2>\n

As the study details, the composite organization realized multiple financial benefits through better security:<\/p>\n