Palo Alto Networks Updates Its Prisma Cloud Solution to Shield Cloud Native Applications

The comprehensive platform enables organizations to develop, deploy, and protect cloud-native applications without the complexity, risks, and hassles of using multiple specific products.

Palo Alto Networks has introduced a series of updates to Prisma Cloud, a comprehensive cloud-native security platform. Thanks to these enhancements, Prisma Cloud now has web application firewall (WAF) capabilities and is able to ensure scalability and automated and integrated protection for comprehensive defense.

"Today, customers need as much protection as possible, delivered in the simplest way possible across the cloud-native continuum, securing hosts, containers and Kubernetes, and serverless functions, both at runtime and across the cycle. life of the application. Many organizations are transitioning to the cloud and need to protect applications, from the infrastructure to the application layer,” said Varun Badhwar, senior vice president of Prisma Cloud product at Palo Alto Networks. 

Prisma Cloud offers cloud workload protection capabilities through a series of modules including host security, container security, and web application and API security (WAAS). Enhancements to these modules include:

Bot risk management: Prisma Cloud Web Application and API Security (WAAS) customers can now manage web bots and decide how to handle access for different types of the bot. 

Advanced DoS Protection: Prisma Cloud WAAS now includes the ability to defend against denial of service (DoS) attacks at the application layer by applying rate controls.

Host security with custom compliance policies - Enhance virtual machine compliance with custom compliance checks for operating systems, orchestrators, and runtime configurations.

Container security with enhanced Kubernetes cluster awareness and CRI-O compliance controls - Deeper Kubernetes integration with improved Kubernetes cluster awareness. Thanks to this, it is now easier to quickly gain visibility, manage security policies, and view audits at runtime through Kubernetes cluster filters.