SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — During the last two years, organizations have expanded their use of cloud environments by greater than 25%. Many at the moment are struggling to handle the technical complexity of cloud migration, together with the power to safe their functions throughout all the software improvement lifecycle. Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), a pacesetter in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Safety, Q1 2022, right now introduced the addition of Out-of-Band Net Software and API Safety (Out-of-Band WAAS) to Prisma® Cloud to assist organizations safe internet functions with most flexibility.
Till now, a major {industry} strategy to securing internet functions has been to deploy inline internet software firewalls (WAFs). Some organizations are reluctant to introduce WAFs or API safety options inline, nonetheless, resulting from efficiency and scalability considerations. With right now’s announcement, Prisma Cloud can present organizations with deep internet and API safety each inline and out of band, permitting them to decide on learn how to defend their functions within the cloud.
“Firms not must determine between software safety and efficiency. By including Out-of-Band WAAS to Prisma Cloud, we’re empowering clients with versatile safety choices that match their evolving software wants,” stated Ankur Shah, senior vp, Prisma Cloud, Palo Alto Networks. “As extra organizations transfer workloads to the cloud, the capabilities that make up Prisma Cloud assist present essentially the most full safety, lowering complexity and growing visibility throughout infrastructure, workloads, identities and functions.”
“As organizations more and more construct and deploy their functions within the cloud, defending their business-critical functions with out impacting efficiency has been a problem,” stated Melinda Marks, senior analyst, ESG. “Including the choice of Out-of-Band WAAS helps each developer and safety groups safe their functions with the identical stage of safety as conventional in-line WAFs and API safety with out impacting efficiency.”
Along with Out-of-Band WAAS, Prisma Cloud is getting new menace detection, alert prioritization and permissions administration capabilities to assist present organizations with deeper, unified visibility throughout their total cloud software portfolio:
- Multicloud Graph View for Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Administration (CIEM): Uncover over-privileged accounts and perceive entry danger throughout multicloud environments. Prisma Cloud now gives a graph view of the online efficient permissions throughout AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
- Multicloud Agentless Cloud Workload Safety: Prolong visibility into cloud workloads and software dangers throughout Azure and Google Cloud, along with AWS, to enhance present agent-based safety.
- DNS-Based mostly Menace Detection: Floor malicious exercise and anomalous habits in cloud environments. Prisma Cloud Menace Detection now leverages machine studying (ML) and superior menace intelligence to establish unhealthy actors hiding in DNS site visitors.
- MITRE ATT&CK® Alert Prioritization: Allow safety groups to prioritize dangers and incidents primarily based on the {industry}’s most generally adopted framework.
Availability
Out-of-band WAAS is accessible right now for Prisma Cloud Compute Version and will probably be out there within the Enterprise Version over the subsequent month. The extra options may also roll out for Prisma Cloud Enterprise Version over the subsequent month.
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