{"id":54212,"date":"2023-10-19T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3709188\/palo-alto-expands-cloud-security-platform.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-10-19T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:35:00","slug":"palo-alto-expands-cloud-security-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/palo-alto-expands-cloud-security-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto expands cloud security platform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palo Alto Networks has bolstered its cloud security software with features that help customers quickly spot suspicious behaviors and trace security issues to their source to better protect enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.<\/p>\n

The vendor has added a variety of new components, under the moniker Darwin, to its core cloud-security package, Prisma Cloud. The core platform already includes application-security features such as access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and the ability to code security directly into SaaS applications. Managed through a single console, Prisma Cloud also includes firewall as a service<\/a>, zero-trust network access (ZTNA)<\/a>, a cloud-access security broker (CASB), and a secure web gateway.<\/p>\n

With the Darwin release, Palo Alto is adding vulnerability and remediation capabilities along with upgraded visibility and forensics features. <\/p>\n

\u201cPrisma Cloud and Darwin help customers secure applications from their inception in code to their deployment in the cloud to their active running environments where it identifies, connects and fixes risks at every step,\u201d wrote Ankur Shah, senior vice president and general manager of Palo Alto\u2019s Prisma Cloud business, in a blog<\/a> about the new software.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroduced in the Darwin release, security issues aren\u2019t just identified. They\u2019re traced to their source in code and back, allowing for effective remediation at the origin of risk. To prevent problems from multiplying as applications are built and deployed,\u201d Shah wrote.<\/p>\n

Darwin can provide intricate details about a cloud application\u2019s services, including infrastructure assets, compute workloads, API endpoints, data and code that make up the application. This feature, called AppDNA, aims to give customers visibility into every resource component that makes up an application.<\/p>\n