Press release
Prisma Cloud Launches ML-Powered Next-Generation Cloud Security Posture Management Capabilities, Helping Organizations Accelerate Cloud Adoption
New updates minimize false network alerts, detect data exfiltration and provide comprehensive coverage of IaaS/PaaS services SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 8, 2021
About this update from Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"New updates minimize false network alerts, detect data exfiltration and provide comprehensive coverage of IaaS/PaaS services\n\n\nSANTA CLARA, Calif., June 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- New updates to Prisma® Cloud, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution, help eliminate dangerous cloud blind spots and free security teams from the burden of alert fatigue. These critical features are available to the 2,000+ enterprises that trust Prisma Cloud, as well as future customers.\n\nCloud environments are growing ever more complex as organizations add more cloud providers, users, applications and resources. Most security solutions are not designed for this new world and lack the end-to-end visibility needed to accurately assess risks and alert security teams of advanced attacks, leaving them to deal with both unsecured cloud resources and the cacophony of false-positive alerts. Today's Prisma Cloud CSPM updates help security teams address these issues.\n\"Companies don't want to slow down to secure the cloud, and they shouldn't have to,\" said Varun Badhwar, senior vice president, Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks. \"An ideal CSPM solution needs to offer coverage for all cloud resources, should stay up to date as new resources are introduced, and must effectively detect real attacks while minimizing unnecessary false positives. Prisma Cloud addresses these issues and allows organizations to move quickly while staying secure.\"\nThe five new features of Prisma Cloud are:\nTrue Internet Exposure Legacy CSPM solutions generate alerts for any overly permissive security group — even if the security group is not publicly exposed. True Internet Exposure provides end-to-end network path visibility between any source and destination, eliminating needless alerts associated with unexposed cloud instances and security groups. Visibility-as-Code Cloud service providers release and update hundreds of new services for their platforms each year. When organizations use these new services before their CSPM solution supports them, they are left with security blind spots. With Visibility-as-Code, Prisma Cloud can now support new cloud services in days, providing development teams with the freedom to take advantage of the latest cloud services while giving the security teams the security measures they need.Network Data Ex...