GFT Report November 2024 | Page 13

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PALO ALTO ’ S PRISMA CLOUD OFFERS A UNIFIED APPROACH
Prisma Cloud is a comprehensive cloudnative application protection platform ( CNAPP ) designed to secure applications from code to cloud across various cloud environments . It offers a unified approach to security , integrating multiple capabilities into a single platform to provide best-in-class protection . The platform focuses on three main areas :
1 . Risk Prevention : It shifts security left by integrating with engineering ecosystems to prevent risks and misconfigurations before they reach production . This includes IaC security , secrets security , CI / CD security and software composition analysis and more .
2 . Visibility and Control : Prisma Cloud provides continuous monitoring and control over cloud assets , including Cloud Security Posture Management ( CSPM ), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management
( CIEM ), agentless workload scanning , API visibility , cloud discovery and Data Security Posture Management ( DSPM ).
3 . Runtime Protection : It offers realtime protection for cloud workloads , web applications and APIs . This includes cloud threat detection , host security , container security , serverless security , web application and API security .
Prisma Cloud is powered by Code to Cloud intelligence , which connects insights from the development environment through to application runtime . This helps in contextualising alerts , prioritising critical risks and offering remediation guidance . The platform aims to reduce risk , prevent breaches , improve DevSec collaboration , increase efficiency and enhance compliance and security posture across multi-cloud environments .