Prisma Cloud will provide organisations with deep web and API security both inline and out of band, allowing them to choose how to protect their applications in the cloud
Palo Alto Networks announced the addition of Out-of-Band Web Application and API Security (Out-of-Band WAAS) to Prisma Cloud to help organisations secure web applications with maximum flexibility.
“Companies no longer have to decide between application security and performance. By adding Out-of-Band WAAS to Prisma Cloud, we are empowering customers with flexible security options that fit their evolving application needs. As more organisations move workloads to the cloud, the capabilities that make up Prisma Cloud help provide complete protection, reducing complexity and increasing visibility across infrastructure, workloads, identities and applications,” said Ankur Shah, Senior Vice President, Prisma Cloud, Palo Alto Networks.
A primary industry approach to securing web applications has been to deploy inline web application firewalls (WAFs). However, some organisations are reluctant to introduce WAFs or API security solutions inline, due to performance and scalability concerns. Prisma Cloud provides organisations with deep web and API security both inline and out of band, allowing them to choose how to protect their applications in the cloud.
In addition to Out-of-Band WAAS, Prisma Cloud is getting new threat detection, alert prioritisation and permissions management capabilities to help provide organisations with deeper, unified visibility across their entire cloud application portfolio:
- Multicloud Graph View for Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM): Discover over-privileged accounts and understand access risk across multi-cloud environments. Prisma Cloud now provides a graph view of the net effective permissions across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
- Multicloud Agentless Cloud Workload Protection: Extend visibility into cloud workloads and application risks across Azure and Google Cloud and AWS to complement existing agent-based protection.
- DNS-Based Threat Detection: Surface malicious activity and anomalous behaviour in cloud environments. Prisma Cloud Threat Detection now leverages machine learning (ML) and advanced threat intelligence to identify bad actors hiding in DNS traffic.
- MITRE ATT&CK Alert Prioritisation: Enable security teams to prioritise risks and incidents based on the industry’s most widely adopted framework.
