Palo
Alto Networks Leads the Industry to AI-Powered SASE
News Summary
Palo Alto Networks announced new
capabilities to boost its single-vendor SASE
solution enabling organizations to automate their increasingly
complex IT and network operations center (NOC) functions. Additionally, the
company announced features to secure IoT and automate branch management. With
new AI-powered capabilities, organizations can confidently rely on Prisma® SASE to generate better security
outcomes and unlock operational efficiencies.
Prisma SASE Improves Security Posture and Reduces Complexity
According to the Gartner® 2022 Roadmap for SASE Convergence report1, by 2025, 80% of enterprises will have
adopted a strategy to unify web, cloud services and private application access
using a SASE/SSE architecture, up from 20% in 2021.
"With so many organizations adopting SASE, it is important to
understand that in order to reap the full benefits, they need to move towards a
single-vendor SASE approach. A mix-and-match approach increases complexity and
makes it challenging to be proactive or isolate issues,"
said Kumar Ramachandran, senior vice president for Products, SASE.
"With an integrated Prisma SASE, organizations can harness the power of AI across
networking and security to enable a great user experience."
"We recently completed a Zero Trust implementation using Palo Alto
Networks Prisma SASE and we have already seen significant improvements in the
strength of our security posture," said Kenneth Ogami, senior vice
president and CIO, U.S., Westfield. "We simultaneously deployed SD-WAN
from Palo Alto Networks and massively reduced the complexity and cost of our
network management, which is critical in retail right now. With the new
AI-powered capabilities, we expect to simplify our network management even
further to reduce costs, not to mention strengthening our overall security
posture even more."
Natively integrated AIOps to Automate Complex IT Operations
Autonomous Digital Experience Management
(ADEM) provides Prisma SASE customers end-to-end observability across
their network to enable a great user experience. Now with the addition
of AIOps, ADEM will help customers automate complex IT
and NOC functions while increasing productivity and reducing mean
time to resolution (MTTR). Since ADEM is integrated
within Prisma SASE it does not require additional appliances or
agents to be deployed. The benefits that AIOps for ADEM can
deliver include:
- Proactively remediate issues that can cause
service interruption through AI-based problem detection and predictive
analytics.
- Isolate issues faster (reduced MTTR) through
an easy-to-use query interface.
- Simply and quickly discover network anomalies
from a single dashboard.
SD-WAN Innovations to Extend Zero Trust to the Branch of the Future
Branch locations have never been as digitized
and hyper-connected as they are today. The strength of SASE is that it
converges SD-WAN with a cloud-delivered Secure Service Edge (SSE), helping
organizations simplify management, get consistent visibility and leverage AI/ML
for smarter decision-making.
Palo Alto Networks is introducing three SD-WAN innovations:
- Prisma SD-WAN Command
Center provides AI-powered and segment-wise insights
and always-on monitoring for network and apps for proactive problem resolution
at the branch level. With a comprehensive Command Center dashboard, IT gets
visibility into organization-wide application experience and health, enabling
expedited root cause analysis.
- Prisma SD-WAN with
integrated IoT security allows existing Prisma
SD-WAN appliances to help secure IoT devices. This enables accurate detection
and identification of branch IoT devices. Customers can now enable robust
security controls from within the familiar cloud management for Prisma SASE.
Other SD-WAN solutions require additional appliances and sensors to be deployed
in the network to gain visibility into IoT devices and prevent threats.
- On-Prem Controller for
Prisma SD-WAN helps customers meet their
industry-specific security compliance requirements and works with on-prem and
cloud controller deployments. Customers can now choose to deploy Prisma SD-WAN
using the cloud management console, on-prem controllers or both in a hybrid
scenario.
Cloud SWG with Agent-Based Proxy Support and Industry-First Phishing Detections
Some organizations with proxy-based
architectures that need to meet industry-specific requirements are looking to
migrate to a SASE-based cloud secure web gateway (SWG). Palo Alto Networks is
introducing agent-based explicit proxy support with Prisma Access to enable
such customers to benefit from superior cloud-delivered security without the
need for networking changes, even allowing the coexistence with third-party VPN
agents.
Additionally, Prisma Access Cloud SWG uses Palo Alto Networks Advanced
URL Filtering to provide the industry's only real-time prevention of unknown
and highly evasive Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) phishing attacks. Advanced URL
Filtering can also help prevent SaaS platform phishing attacks. With the rise
in the sophistication and scale of modern web attacks, Prisma Access cloud SWG
stays ahead of threat actors to secure customers with its AI/ML-powered
detections.
''Organizations are rapidly adopting SASE frameworks, driving innovation
for both SD-WAN and SSE. With today's announcements for Prisma SD-WAN, Palo
Alto Networks is demonstrating their commitment to innovation, not just in
cloud-delivered security, but in a tightly integrated single-vendor SASE
solution that includes industry-leading SD-WAN. Enabling customers to secure IoT
devices in branch offices and providing end-to-end visibility to determine
branch health utilizing the new SD-WAN Command Center will help them
differentiate themselves in the mature SD-WAN market,'' said Bob
Laliberte, principal analyst of Enterprise Strategy Group.
Source: Palo Alto Networks media announcement
