American Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks has announced an innovative cloud security suite today called Prisma which offers advanced security features to protect data, govern its access and secure applications.
The security suite will be available in 4 variants- Prisma Access, Prisma Public Cloud, Prisma SaaS, and the VM-Series.
Prisma Access is being offered with a scalable cloud-native architecture which allows branch office and mobile users to connect to the cloud platform from anywhere. The service is aptly designed to promptly provision secure internet connectivity to customers.
Coming to Prisma Public Cloud it is basically a machine learning equipped platform that correlated data and helps analyze cyber risks across the cloud environment.
Prisma SaaS is a software as a service application that acts as a multi-layered cloud access security broker which helps discover risks, offers access control, prevents data loss, assures compliance-related issues are resolved, offers data governance, and ensures advanced threat prevention.
Palo Alto Networks Prisma VM-Series is a virtualized firewall that can be deployed in public and private cloud environments.
“Prisma from Palo Alto Networks offers a strong security posture from the start to consistently prevent attacks”, said Lee Klarich, Chief Product Office, Palo Alto Networks.
Note 1- Prisma was developed by Palo Alto with the technology acquired cloud security startup Redlock and Evident.io
Note 2- Prisma VM Series Firewall can be used on public clouds such as Amazon web services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, and Alibaba Cloud along with VMware NSX.
