Palo Alto Networks Bolsters
Its Cloud Native Security Offerings With Out-of-Band WAAS
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Prisma Cloud platform updates help organizations continuously monitor and
secure web applications with maximum flexibility
Over the last two years, organizations have
expanded their use of cloud environments by more than 25%. Many are now struggling to manage the
technical complexity of cloud migration, including the ability to secure their
applications across the entire application development lifecycle. Palo Alto
Networks, a leader in The
Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2022, announced
the addition of Out-of-Band Web Application
and API Security (Out-of-Band WAAS) to Prisma® Cloud to help organizations secure web applications
with maximum flexibility.
Until now, a primary industry
approach to securing web applications has been to deploy inline web application
firewalls (WAFs). Some organizations are reluctant to introduce WAFs or API
security solutions inline, however, due to performance and scalability
concerns. With today's announcement, Prisma Cloud can provide organizations
with deep web and API security both inline and out of band, allowing them to
choose how to protect their applications in the cloud.
"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," said Ankur Shah, senior
vice president, Prisma Cloud, Palo Alto Networks. "As more organizations
move workloads to the cloud, the capabilities that make up Prisma Cloud help
provide the most complete protection, reducing complexity and increasing
visibility across infrastructure, workloads, identities and applications."
"As organizations
increasingly build and deploy their applications in the cloud, protecting their
business-critical applications without impacting performance has been a
challenge," said Melinda Marks, senior analyst, ESG. "Adding the
option of Out-of-Band WAAS helps both developer and security teams secure their
applications with the same level of security as traditional in-line WAFs and
API security without impacting performance."
In addition to Out-of-Band WAAS,
Prisma Cloud is getting new threat detection, alert prioritization and
permissions management capabilities to help provide organizations 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 multicloud 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, in addition to
AWS, to complement existing agent-based protection.
- DNS-Based Threat Detection: Surface malicious activity and anomalous
behavior 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
Prioritization: Enable
security teams to prioritize risks and incidents based on the industry's most
widely adopted framework.
Source: Palo Alto Networks media announcement