Palo Alto Networks is doubling down on cloud security with the introduction of Cortex Cloud, the next version of Prisma Cloud,
that natively brings together new releases of its best-in-class cloud
detection and response (CDR) and industry-leading cloud native
application protection platform (CNAPP) capabilities on the unified
Cortex platform. The new solution, announced today, equips security
teams with significant innovations powered by AI and automation that go
beyond traditional “peace time” approaches to cloud security and stop
attacks in real-time.
Unit 42 reports reveal that 80% of security exposures were found in cloud attack surfaces, with a 66%
increase in threats targeting cloud environments. As cloud adoption and
AI usage grow, Cortex Cloud unifies data, automates workflows, and
applies AI-driven insights to reduce risk, prevent threats, and stop
attacks in real time. Cortex Cloud is designed to ingest and analyze
data from third-party tools to provide centralized visibility, AI-driven
insights and end-to-end remediation across the entire cloud security
ecosystem.
Lee Klarich, chief product officer of Palo Alto Networks
“As
more critical business applications move to the cloud, cloud security
must expand to include industry-leading runtime protection. And to make
it as easy as possible for our customers to adopt end-to-end cloud
security, we’re including CNAPP at no additional cost for every Cortex
Cloud Runtime Security customer. With Cortex Cloud, we are delivering
the next generation of cloud security – enabling organizations to
swiftly prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to evolving threats
across their entire enterprise.”
Cortex Cloud delivers on Palo Alto Networks platformization strategy
by rearchitecting its cloud security solution on the AI-driven Cortex
SecOps platform to deliver a powerful unified user experience with
persona-driven dashboards and workflows. Cortex Cloud helps customers
achieve superior protection at a significantly lower total cost of
ownership and provides additional value and new features including:
- Application security: Build secure apps and
prevent issues in development before they become production issues that
attackers can target. Cortex Cloud identifies and prioritizes issues
across the entire development pipeline with end-to-end context across
code, runtime, cloud and newly introduced third-party scanners. - Cloud posture:
Improve multi-cloud risk management with new AI-powered prioritization,
guided fixes to resolve multiple risks with a single action, and
automated remediation. Additionally, Cortex Cloud delivers a single user
experience with tight integration across all of Prisma Cloud’s cloud posture capabilities. - Cloud runtime:
Stop attacks in real time. Cortex Cloud natively integrates the unified
Cortex XDR agent, enriched with additional cloud data sources, to
prevent threats with advanced analytics – as proven by industry-leading
results in the most recent MITRE ATT&CK testing. Our new Cloud
Runtime Security offering includes the world’s leading CNAPP
capabilities at no additional cost, maximizing adoption of end-to-end
cloud security on a single platform. - SOC: The preferred
SOC platform for enterprise and cloud, expanding beyond what any SIEM
can deliver. Cortex Cloud natively integrates cloud data, context and
workflows within Cortex XSIAM to significantly reduce the mean time to
respond (MTTR) to modern threats with a single, unified SecOps solution.
Melinda Marks, practice director, cybersecurity, Enterprise Strategy Group
“Security
teams need to mitigate risk to reduce the chance of cybersecurity
incidents, and if and when an incident occurs, they need to respond as
quickly as possible. Our research shows that security teams struggle
with remediation efficiency because application security, cloud
security, and security operations tools and processes have been
historically siloed. With the introduction of Cortex Cloud, Palo Alto
Networks delivers a unified code-to-cloud-to-SOC platform giving
security teams the context to prioritize and drive remediation actions
with the highest impact on reducing risk, while speeding up detection
and response for security operations.”
Customer Delivery
Existing Prisma Cloud
customers will experience a seamless upgrade to Cortex Cloud, and will
now experience the power of streamlined, real-time cloud security.
Existing Cortex XSIAM customers who add Cortex Cloud gain the ability to
seamlessly adopt CNAPP capabilities that are native-by-design on the
world’s most complete AI-powered, enterprise-to-cloud SecOps platform.
Cortex Cloud will be available to customers later in Q3 FY25.
