{"id":4517,"date":"2014-01-22T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2014-01-22T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T23:27:30","slug":"customer-spotlight-the-heinz-endowments-replaces-cisco-palo-alto-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/customer-spotlight-the-heinz-endowments-replaces-cisco-palo-alto-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Spotlight: The Heinz Endowments Replaces Cisco With Palo Alto Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Welcome to a new series highlighting some of the most important parts of the Palo Alto Networks ecosystem: our customers. Every month, we'll look at how various types of customers are using the Palo Alto Networks approach to enterprise security to solve their infrastructure challenges. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Heinz Endowments, based in Pittsburgh, is a foundation focused on solutions to regional, statewide and national challenges, with a particular emphasis on helping southwestern Pennsylvania thrive. Because it spends a lot of time interacting with the public, its network has particular challenges, including staff e-mail addresses posted to its external web site and frequent e-mails coming and going with lots of attachments.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After a nearly yearlong period in which the The Heinz Endowments saw a sizable increase in targeted malware -- particularly phishing scams -- the foundation's Director of Information Technology knew it needed to overhaul its approach to network security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/customers\/heinz-endowments.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read about how The Heinz Endowments tore out its Cisco security infrastructure<\/a>, embraced the power of the Palo Alto Networks enterprise security platform, and saved nearly $12,000 in annual costs -- all with improved security and zero network infections since installation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new series highlighting some of the most important parts of the Palo Alto Networks ecosystem: our customers. Every month, we'll look at how various types of customers are using &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[74,208,274],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-spotlight","tag-malware","tag-phishing","tag-the-heinz-endowments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4536,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}