NEW YORK and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Palo Alto Networks® (NASDAQ: PANW), the worldwide cybersecurity chief, and the Nationwide Hockey League (NHL®) introduced at present a multiyear North American partnership aimed toward guaranteeing the utmost cybersecurity for the NHL. This partnership exemplifies the shared dedication of Palo Alto Networks and the NHL to prioritize cybersecurity throughout the League, together with NHL arenas.
Palo Alto Networks, celebrating its 20th anniversary this 12 months, has offered the NHL with cybersecurity options since 2009. The NHL has standardized on Palo Alto Networks for community safety with its next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), cloud safety, and AI-powered safety operations, whereas enabling League workers to browse securely with Prisma Entry Browser and safely use AI apps with AI Entry Safety. Palo Alto Networks has been instrumental in bolstering the NHL’s cybersecurity efforts.
This new partnership offers Palo Alto Networks with an array of unique advertising and marketing rights and designations that may join the Palo Alto Networks model with the NHL and its followers by the NHL’s huge advertising and marketing, digital, and social media channels all through the period of the partnership.
“In our pursuit to offer a secure and safe enterprise and fan expertise, we’ve discovered a real companion in Palo Alto Networks,” stated Dave Munroe, NHL Senior Vice President, Data Expertise & Cybersecurity. “We proceed to remain forward of the sport with Palo Alto Networks cloud, community, and safety operations options. The addition of this partnership underscores the energy of our dedication to continued innovation in areas equivalent to AI and digital transformation.”
“Like us, the NHL is at all times innovating and we’re thrilled to embark on this partnership evolution. Via our platformization method, we’re dedicated to serving to hold the NHL safe,” stated KP Unnikrishnan, Chief Advertising Officer from Palo Alto Networks. “We’re proud to face alongside the NHL as their trusted cybersecurity companion and sit up for persevering with to ship worth to the NHL’s enterprise whereas seizing the alternatives of this deepened relationship.”
By leveraging Palo Alto Networks superior cybersecurity options, platforms and experience, the NHL is poised to navigate the evolving menace panorama and ship a world-class, safe expertise for followers, Gamers, and all concerned with the NHL. This partnership could have a tangible impression on the NHL’s cybersecurity initiatives, together with the development within the variety of threats blocked monthly, enhanced safety for IoT units, lowered imply time to reply (MTTR) to safety alerts, elevated enablement of enterprise initiatives, and elevated fan engagement from a safe consumer expertise.
