Key Highlights
- Palo Alto Networks has upgraded its Prisma Cloud security platform with the Darwin release, offering advanced vulnerability tracing and enhanced visibility features to bolster SaaS application security.
- These additions help organizations identify and mitigate security issues within the code, ultimately improving the protection of cloud-native applications.
Palo Alto Networks has upgraded its cloud security platform, Prisma Cloud, with the introduction of the Darwin release. The latest features enable customers to swiftly detect suspicious activities and trace security issues to their source, strengthening protection for enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
Key Enhancements in Prisma Cloud’s Darwin Release
- Vulnerability and Remediation Capabilities: The Darwin release includes enhanced vulnerability and remediation capabilities, offering customers the ability to identify and rectify security issues at their source within the code, preventing them from multiplying during application development and deployment.
- AppDNA for Detailed Application Analysis: The new feature, AppDNA, provides intricate insights into cloud application services, including infrastructure assets, compute workloads, API endpoints, data, and code components. It offers comprehensive visibility into the elements comprising an application.
- Cloud Discovery and Exposure Management: The new feature allows security teams to discover, evaluate, and mitigate unknown and unmanaged internet exposure risks within their cloud environments. It helps identify rogue assets and assess risks comprehensively.
- Infinity Graph for Risk Understanding: Prisma Cloud introduces the Infinity Graph, improving the management interface to facilitate vulnerability tracing and remediation tracking. It offers a clear visualization of potential attack paths and overlays active attack attempts, allowing customers to understand ongoing threats and their level of protection.
- Code-to-Cloud Intelligence: Customers can now track risks and create a remediation roadmap within Prisma Cloud. The platform enables immediate risk mitigation in the cloud while opening pull requests for developers to address issues at the source.
- Code-to-Cloud Dashboard: This feature provides a centralized view of the entire application lifecycle, including the supply chain. The dashboard offers analytics for each stage of the software development lifecycle, aiding in decision-making and reporting.
Prisma Cloud competes in the market for cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP) and offers a range of features that help organizations secure their cloud environments. The CNAPP market is crucial as the attack surface for cloud-native applications continues to expand, with attackers targeting cloud infrastructure misconfigurations, APIs, and the software supply chain.
Prisma Cloud’s Enhanced Security Capabilities
Palo Alto’s Prisma Cloud faces competition from other vendors such as Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Orca, and more, all providing CNAPPs to consolidate a wide range of capabilities for cloud-native application security.
These enhancements will equip Prisma Cloud users with robust security features, allowing them to detect and address vulnerabilities more efficiently while ensuring comprehensive protection for SaaS applications. The platform will empower organizations to secure their cloud environments effectively and maintain a strong defense against evolving threats.
FAQs
1. What is Prisma Cloud’s Darwin release?
The Darwin release is an upgrade to Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Cloud platform, enhancing SaaS application security with advanced vulnerability tracing and visibility features.
2. How does Prisma Cloud help secure cloud-native applications?
Prisma Cloud secures cloud-native applications by identifying and mitigating security issues within the code, allowing for effective remediation at the source of risk.
3. What is AppDNA in the Darwin release?
AppDNA is a feature that provides detailed insights into the components of a cloud application, including infrastructure assets, compute workloads, API endpoints, data, and code.
