- The next version of Prisma
Cloud adds AI-powered prioritization, automated remediation,
and a new simplified, powerful user experience.
- Prisma Cloud is merged with
Cortex CDR to form Cortex Cloud, stopping attacks in
real-time.
- Cortex Cloud is also available on Cortex XSIAM, making it
the preferred SOC platform for enterprise and cloud.
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Feb. 13,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:
PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, 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.
Introducing Cortex Cloud Launch Partners
Eager to roll
out the differentiated Cortex Cloud to customers are Palo Alto
Networks' esteemed integration partners: CyberCX, Deloitte, IBM and
Orange Cyberdefense. Together with each partner, Palo Alto Networks
will drive end-to-end SecOps transformation across enterprise and
cloud environments, enabling organizations to achieve superior risk
reduction, rapid threat prevention and streamlined operational
efficiency.
To learn more about Cortex Cloud, the Cortex platform and how
Palo Alto Networks is transforming cybersecurity through real-time
security, read our blog and register for Cortex's annual signature
event, Symphony 2025.
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is the
global cybersecurity leader, committed to making each day safer
than the one before with industry-leading, AI-powered solutions in
network security, cloud security and security operations. Powered
by Precision AI, our technologies deliver precise threat detection
and swift response, minimizing false positives and enhancing
security effectiveness. Our platformization approach integrates
diverse security solutions into a unified, scalable platform,
streamlining management and providing operational efficiencies with
comprehensive protection. From defending network perimeters to
safeguarding cloud environments and ensuring rapid incident
response, Palo Alto Networks empowers businesses to achieve Zero
Trust security and confidently embrace digital transformation in an
ever-evolving threat landscape. This unwavering commitment to
security and innovation makes us the cybersecurity partner of
choice.
At Palo Alto Networks, we're committed to bringing together the
very best people in service of our mission, so we're also proud to
be the cybersecurity workplace of choice, recognized among
Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces (2021-2024), with a score of 100
on the Disability Equality Index (2024, 2023, 2022), and HRC Best
Places for LGBTQ+ Equality (2022). For more information, visit
www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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