Why did SLB move away from best-of-breed cybersecurity tools?

Name: How SLB Reduced Cybersecurity Costs with Platform Consolidation
Uploaded: 2026-05-19T19:26:43-04:00
Duration: 1 min 17 s
Description: Learn how SLB enhances its cybersecurity strategy by adopting Palo Alto Networks’ integrated solutions—NGFW, CDSS, Prisma Access, and Unit 42—leading to cost reduction and proactive protectio...

SLB found that managing multiple point solutions required extensive IT integration effort and carried high costs to maintain and sustain over time. The consolidated platform approach reduces operational complexity while lowering total cost of ownership.

How SLB Reduced Cybersecurity Costs with Platform Consolidation

Palo Alto Networks

05/19/2026

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SLB transitioned from managing multiple best-of-breed cybersecurity tools to Palo Alto Networks' integrated platform to reduce complexity and total cost of ownership.
The consolidated approach eliminates significant IT integration overhead that comes with maintaining disparate security products across the enterprise.
SLB actively contributes to Palo Alto's product roadmap to ensure capabilities meet the specific performance and security needs of the energy industry.

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This customer testimonial features SLB (formerly Schlumberger), a global energy industry leader, discussing their strategic shift from best-of-breed cybersecurity tools to Palo Alto Networks' integrated platform approach. The speaker describes the common enterprise challenge of managing multiple point solutions that require significant IT integration effort and carry high maintenance costs over time. SLB's solution involved consolidating onto Palo Alto Networks' integrated stack, which includes next-generation firewalls, cloud-delivered security services, Prisma Access, and Unit 42 threat intelligence. A notable aspect of the partnership is SLB's ability to provide input into Palo Alto's product roadmap, ensuring capabilities are optimized for energy industry requirements. The speaker emphasizes that platform consolidation allows their security experts to focus on proactive threat hunting and incident response rather than spending time on integration work, representing a meaningful operational improvement for the organization's security posture.

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0:00 - Best-of-Breed Challenges
0:21 - Platform Consolidation Decision
0:38 - Partnership and Roadmap Input
0:54 - Operational Benefits

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0:00 "We've been really assembling over the years, like most enterprises around the globe, best of breed technology, product-based type of technology for cyber security, requiring a lot of effort, IT integration, quote-unquote, for cyber security and high cost to maintain and sustain in the long run."
0:54 "Leveraging a platform really allows us to keep our expert focus on what we want them to focus on, basically proactive training and protection of SLB as well as responding in case of an event and not working into the IT integration world."

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