A Palo Alto Networks, global leader in cybersecurity, is intensifying its focus on cloud security with the introduction ofCortex® Cloud. The new version of Prisma Cloud brings together releases of its best cloud detection and response (CDR) solutions and protection for cloud-native applications (CNAPP) on the unified Cortex platform. The solution equips security teams with significant innovations, driven by AI and automation, that go beyond traditional cloud security approaches and disrupt attacks in real time
Unit 42® reports reveal that80% of security exhibitionsoccurred on attack surfaces in the cloud, a66% increase in threats directed at environments of this nature. As cloud adoption and the use of AI grow, Cortex Cloud unifies data, automates workflows and applies insights based on artificial intelligence to reduce risks, prevent threats and interrupt attacks in real time. The solution was designed to ingest and analyze data from third-party tools, providing centralized visibility and end-to-end remediation across the cloud security ecosystem
Lee Klarich, Chief Product Officer of Palo Alto Networks, states: "As more critical business applications migrate to the cloud, security needs to evolve to include high-level rapid protection. To make it as easy as possible for our clients to adopt complete security, we are including the CNAPP at no additional cost for each Cortex Cloud Runtime Security customer. We are delivering the next generation of cloud security, allowing organizations to prevent, detect them, investigate and respond quickly to threats across your entire infrastructure
Cortex Cloud strengthens Palo Alto Networks' platformization strategy by restructuring cloud security on the AI-based Cortex SecOps platform, providing a unified and powerful user experience, with panels and workflows tailored for different profiles. The tool helps customers achieve superior protection with a significantly lower total cost of ownership, offering additional added value and new features, including
- Application securitybuild secure applications and prevent problems before they even become vulnerabilities in production that can be exploited by attackers. Cortex Cloud identifies and prioritizes failures across the development pipeline, offering end-to-end context between code, execution time, cloud and the new third-party scanners
- Cloud security postureimprove risk management in multi-cloud environments with AI-based prioritization, guided corrections to address multiple risks with a single action and automated remediation. Furthermore, Cortex Cloud offers a unified user experience with full integration across all cloud security posture capabilities of Prisma Cloud
- Cloud runtimeinterrupt real-time attacks. The release natively integrates the unified agent of Cortex XDR, enriched with additional cloud data sources, to prevent threats with advanced analytics. All of this is supported by industry-leading results in the latest MITRE ATT&CK tests. The new cloud runtime security offering includes the best CNAPP capabilities in the world at no additional cost, maximizing end-to-end security adoption on a single platform
- SOC:the preferred SOC platform for companies and cloud environments goes beyond what any SIEM can offer. The Cortex Cloud natively integrates data, context and workflows of the cloud within Cortex XSIAM, significantly reducing the mean time to respond (MTTR) to modern threats with a unified SecOps solution
Security teams need to mitigate risks to reduce the chance of cyber incidents and, in case it happens, they must respond as quickly as possible. Our research shows that teams face difficulties with remediation efficiency, because the tools and processes of application security, cloud security and related operations have always operated in isolation. With the introduction of Cortex Cloud, Palo Alto Networks delivers a unified code platform for cloud and SOC. The goal is to provide security teams with the necessary context to prioritize and execute remediation actions with the greatest impact on risk reduction, while speeding up detection and response in security operations, highlights Melinda Marks, director of cybersecurity practices at the Enterprise Strategy Group
Delivery to the customerCurrent Prisma Cloud customers will have a seamless upgrade to Cortex Cloud and will be able to experience simplified, real-time cloud security. The existing customers of Cortex XSIAM, that they will add the Cortex Cloud, they will be able to easily adopt the capabilities of the CNAPP, that are natively designed on the world's most comprehensive SecOps platform, based on AI, for companies and cloud. The solution will be available to customers by the end of April
Launch of Cortex Cloud partners
Looking to present Cortex Cloud to clients, the integration partners of Palo Alto Networks: CyberCX, Deloitte, IBM and Orange Cyberdefense. Alongside each one, Palo Alto Networks will drive end-to-end transformation of security operations (SecOps) in corporate and cloud environments, allowing organizations to achieve a greater reduction in risks, rapid threat prevention and enhanced operational efficiency
