Increases E-Commerce Platform Security and Availability on AWS for a Global Travel Company

Business Challenge

The customer purchased a Palo Alto Networks Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) to realize greater cost savings for its security investment. However, the standard design templates didn’t support the expected throughput.

Solution

• Palo Alto engaged Lightstream to architect a custom design to achieve the necessary throughput. We successfully architected, deployed, and demonstrated the Palo Alto VM-300 Firewall solution, giving the customer the confidence to move forward with a large-scale VM-Series ELA deployment
• We deployed additional security controls by designing a Palo Alto Networks health check using two AWS “Lambda functions” to automatically run code that checked network routing to primary and secondary firewalls
• Lightstream configured AWS CloudWatch to create a user-friendly dashboard for improved visibility and reporting

Business Outcomes

• By resolving throughput limitations, the company saw considerable savings through its ELA
• Their dashboard offers easy-to-use metrics, visibility, and reporting that simplifies the IT security protocol