Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), a global leader in AI-driven cybersecurity, has announced its collaboration with the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to enhance the security and resilience of their digital services. This partnership is already producing tangible results within an ambitious network and security system transformation project across the department.
The company works closely with the Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations team of Justice Digital, responsible for providing more agile, accessible, and efficient digital services to over 96,000 internal and external users across 1,200 locations within the UK’s judicial system, including courts, prisons, parole services, assistance centers, and partner organizations.
By implementing Prisma® SASE and Cortex XSIAM®, the Ministry of Justice has achieved significant improvements in daily operations: the number of automatically resolved security incidents has quadrupled, and adopting dedicated Internet access circuits via SD-WAN has increased the average available bandwidth fivefold compared to the previous infrastructure.
“Given the critical nature of MoJ’s work, security is a top priority for us,” said Nava Ramanan, Deputy Director of Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations at the Ministry of Justice. “We are focusing on core principles such as cloud-first, security by design, and a zero-trust security model. This ensures our infrastructure remains secure and resilient, aligned with the latest technological advances, including AI-driven innovations.”
As a long-time user of Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), the MoJ has expanded its partnership by choosing Prisma SASE to lead its network security modernization strategy. This initiative includes consolidating SD-WAN and Edge Security Services (SSE) into a unified cloud-based SASE solution that offers resilience, advanced AI-driven security services, visibility, and control for more than 800 active services and 130,000 devices across 13 departments within the ministry.
A recent measure to further protect these devices and services involved renewing the Ministry of Justice’s Security Operations Center (SOC) to monitor, detect, analyze, and proactively respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents in real-time. Palo Alto Networks’ AI-powered security operations platform, Cortex XSIAM, plays a key role here, handling security information and event management (SIEM), attack surface management (ASM), and real-time risk identification.
“Before partnering with the MoJ, it was necessary to strengthen their security posture and resilience against sophisticated cyber threats,” explained Helmut Reisinger, Palo Alto Networks’ CEO for EMEA. “We collaborated with the department’s team to build an effective SOC with integrated threat intelligence and proactive security monitoring across all critical services. This has resulted in improvements to key metrics such as mean time to detection (MTTD), mean time to response (MTTR), and operational risk. These outcomes were achieved through close collaboration between our Customer Success and Professional Services teams to maximize the value of the transformation program.”
Looking ahead, the Ministry will securely connect all courts, parole offices, prisons, and central locations with a logical separation of data and applications. As part of this strategy, Prisma SASE will enable rapid and reliable integration of 34 external agencies and public organizations associated with the MoJ.