Cloud security: Cortex Cloud and Prisma Cloud
Let us be your guide to a secure cloud journey. Code-to-cloud security with visibility, control and automation across complex cloud environments.
Cloud computing continues to transform businesses, delivering agility, scalability and cost advantages. Along with these benefits, however, cybersecurity risks are growing: complex cloud environments, lack of visibility and evolving threats create significant challenges for organisations.
Core principles of cloud security
Protecting data
Encryption, role-based access control and data classification protect your data from unauthorised access at rest and in transit.
Application security
SAST/DAST testing, vulnerability scanning, patch management, WAF and API security prevent attacks at the application layer.
Visibility and monitoring
Log management and SIEM collect, analyse and report on network traffic, user activity and security events.
Automated response and network security
Cloud firewalls, traffic analysis and VPN monitor traffic; automated response to events limits the impact of a breach.
A new era of cloud security with Prisma Cloud
Palo Alto Networks answers these challenges with the Prisma Cloud platform, whose capabilities now come together in the next-generation Cortex Cloud platform. Prisma Cloud delivers end-to-end protection from a single platform, helping organisations secure their cloud environments through visibility, control and automation.
Key capabilities
- Multi-cloud visibility: AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud and Alibaba Cloud in one console.
- Threat detection and prevention: known and unknown threats with threat intelligence and ML.
- Compliance management: automated assessment against CIS Benchmarks, PCI DSS and HIPAA.
- Data security: protection tools such as encryption and data masking.
- Container security: protection for containers and images.
- Application and API security: protection for web applications and APIs.
- DevSecOps: code-to-cloud protection by building security into the software development lifecycle.
Benefits of Prisma Cloud
- Stronger security: comprehensive protection and automation for your cloud environments.
- Better visibility: a single console for all your cloud environments.
- Lower compliance risk: automated assessment and enforcement of standards.
- Faster security response: automated response to events to limit the scope of breaches.
- Mature DevSecOps: more secure and robust applications.
If you are also considering cloud-delivered security for remote users and branches, read our article on ZTNA 2.0 with Prisma Access.
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Frequently asked questions
Which cloud platforms does Prisma Cloud support?
It supports the major public cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Alibaba Cloud, from a single console.
What is CSPM?
Cloud Security Posture Management is the discipline of continuously detecting and fixing misconfigurations and compliance drift in cloud resources. Prisma Cloud delivers it with automated assessment against standards such as CIS, PCI DSS and HIPAA.
How does a cloud security project start?
By connecting your existing cloud accounts with read-only access and making their risk and compliance posture visible. Albisec performs this initial assessment and delivers a prioritised remediation plan.
Talk to our experts about your Palo Alto Networks project
A new deployment, a firewall migration or a support contract: tell us what you need and we will map out the right path with a free initial assessment.