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Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

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What is Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud?

Prisma Cloud, from Palo Alto Networks (based on technology acquired with Evident.io, or the Evident Security Platform) is presented as a comprehensive Cloud Native Security Platform (CNSP) that delivers full lifecycle security and full stack protection for multi- and hybrid-cloud environments. The solution is dedicated to reducing attack surface and checking for vulnerabilities against known or custom signatures of threats and provides daily risk reports, and also detects what users were responsible for risk and provides remediation suggestions.

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A top-notch single pane Dashboard for complete Multi Cloud Data Protection!!!

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Ankitkumar MistryView profile
Product Consultant in Information Technology at Tesa Tapes Pvt. Ltd. (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud is one of them most powerful software which is helpful to us in real-time vulnerabilities and threat protection with their Multi Cloud features capabilities. It is very much effective in Data protection which is backed by AI Security Posture Management. It is also secure with all stages of our Application Lifecycle which is an state-of-the-art techniques from Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud.

Pros

  • Mult Cloud Security
  • Data Protection
  • Application Lifecycle Management

Cons

  • Cloud base Console must be user friendly
  • Local Partner knowledge for this particular product
  • Portfolio License must be easy for the End User

Return on Investment

  • Top notch Security features
  • Insightful Dashboard
  • Prices are high from all industry leader companies

Usability

Other Software Used

Zscaler Data Protection, CheckPoint, CrowdStrike Falcon

A Strategic Investment in Security and Compliance

Jignesh Koladiya
Managing Director in Information Technology at SEEDCORE GROUP (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as a comprehensive cloud security platform to address various business challenges related to cloud infrastructure management and security. One of the primary business problems that Prisma Cloud addresses for us is the need for centralized visibility and control over our cloud assets. Another key challenge that Prisma Cloud helps us tackle is ensuring compliance with industry regulations and internal security policies.

Pros

  • Helps us tackle is ensuring compliance with industry regulations and internal security policies
  • assists us in managing cloud security risks effectively
  • leveraging its robust compliance capabilities, including predefined policy templates and automated checks, we can assess our cloud environments against regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS
  • continuous monitoring of cloud resources, configurations, and network traffic to detect and prevent security threats

Cons

  • could provide more flexibility and interoperability for organizations with diverse infrastructures
  • effectively handle large-scale deployments and high-volume data processing without compromising performance or reliability

Return on Investment

  • By providing visibility and control over our cloud environments, Prisma Cloud has enabled us to adopt cloud technologies more confidently and embrace digital transformation initiatives without compromising security or compliance.

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud Review from data consumer

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a Prisma data user, I use it daily to investigate cybersecurity alerts and incidents. Prisma Cloud solves the problem of using multiple different vendor cloud dashboards to find required cloud asset information. Within Prisma Cloud everything is in one place and once you learn KQL it's a time saver finding required information of cloud assets.

Pros

  • KQL Language is easy
  • UI is pretty and easy to use
  • Data seems to be reliable

Cons

  • Asset explorer is difficult to use.
  • No good documentation for manual search
  • Hard to use for new users

Most Important Features

  • Asset search
  • Alerting
  • Configuration history

Return on Investment

  • Investigation time is severely reduced
  • Has potential to identify misconfigurations
  • Hard to setup

Alternatives Considered

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR and Cortex Xpanse by Palo Alto Networks

Other Software Used

CloudHealth by VMware

Prisma Cloud Security Solution Review.

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are providing support to multiple clients on the cloud as Managed Service Providers for different cloud services, mainly Azure, GCP, and AWS. So Prisma Cloud is one of the tools we onboard our clients on to make sure there are no misconfigurations and the compliance around the infrastructure fulfills the requirements.

Pros

  • Support of multiple cloud service providers.
  • UI is easy to use and navigate.
  • Security enhancement by providing compliance reports.

Cons

  • IAM control needed.
  • Need to provide 24/7 Support.

Most Important Features

  • Centralized Dashboard.
  • Reporting
  • Generate the alert.
  • Integration with Zendesk.
  • Multi cloud support.

Return on Investment

  • Help reduce the cost by assisting what resources can be removed according to usage.
  • Report the vulnerabilities.
  • Time saved in investigating the issue.

Other Software Used

Jenkins, HashiCorp Terraform, IntelliJ IDEA

Prisma Cloud Security Solution

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Vulnerability assessment using Twistlock
  • Enhancing Security by scanning workload based on different Security standards and provide a compliance report
  • CF template integration with CI/CD pipeline to identify any security issue before workload are deployed
  • IAM/UEBA features additional to enchaining security posture
  • Auto remediation
  • Integration is simple and solution is supported on multiple cloud
  • Customized dashboard/queries

Cons

  • IAM control need enhancement as there are few features missing
  • Support on all Container solution such as Pivotal PCF
  • Number of Security Policy for scanning is less and required more policy to identify a security issue
  • Cloud is not hosted in India
  • Firewall Policy on Container required some enhancement for blocking communication between workload
  • Enabling Proxy for connecting on-prem workload container to cloud
  • Solution should not require write access to a cloud account. It should have capabilities of using existing cloud API for remediation or making changes on Cloud

Most Important Features

  • Remediation (Auto/Manual)
  • Centralize Security Dashboard for multiple cloud or account
  • Reporting based on Standard such as CIS and More
  • Vulnerability assessment for OS
  • CF templates integration with CI/CD

Return on Investment

  • Provide visibility of workload or services running within our cloud environment. This also help us to decommissioned/disconnect workload which is no more required
  • Enhanced security posture for API OPEN/Closed based on application requirement
  • Identify Services/Workload hosted on a different account or Cloud and which are not Meeting compliance requirement

Alternatives Considered

Trend Micro Cloud One - Conformity, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management (formerly Dome9) and Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform