5 Must Haves for Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms

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Breaking the Divide in Cloud Native Security

With the prevalence of large-scale cloud native deployments, adapting a more modern, agile and integrated cybersecurity approach is mission critical.

As noted by Gartner, rather than treat development and runtime as separate problems — secured and scanned with a collection of separate tools — enterprises should treat security and compliance as a continuum across development and operations, plus seek to consolidate tools where possible.

Enter Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), a category coined by Gartner and defined in the 2021 Innovation Insight for Cloud-Native Application Protect Platforms report as “an integrated set of security and compliance capabilities designed to help secure and protect cloud native applications across development and production.”

How CNAPP Works

CNAPP removes the gaps in visibility and integration complexities, optimizing observability across enterprise workloads. By shifting security left to development, it also:

  • Reduces the risk of breaches and regulatory penalties
  • Lowers the total cost of fixing vulnerable applications
  • Helps DevSec Ops teams deliver secure cloud native applications, faster

Gartner Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms

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5 Must Haves for CNAPP

  • 01 Development Artifact Scanning
  • 02 Cloud Security Posture Management
  • 03 Infrastructure as Code Scanning
  • 04 Cloud Identity Entitlement Management
  • 05 Cloud Workload Protection Platforms
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Development Artifact Scanning - Code to Cloud

The cloud has made containers an integral part of application development and deployment — these must also be scanned for security threats from code to cloud including APIs, software composition analysis and exposure scanning in CI/CD workflows.

  • Block Inbound Threats

    Reduce risk and block threats from entering the cloud, stop lateral movement within the cloud, and prevent critical data from leaving the cloud.

  • Stop Lateral Attack Movement

    Identity-based microsegmentation helps security teams see how applications communicate and stop lateral movement of threats.

  • Secure Outbound Traffic

    Next-Generation Firewalls inspect all inbound and outbound cloud network traffic for threats and high-risk content.

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Cloud Security Posture Management

CSPM capabilities continuously manage cloud security risk, with automated detection, logging and reporting to aid governance and compliance.

  • Eliminate Cloud Blind Spots

    Gain deep visibility into data objects stored in the public cloud as well as entitlements and user permissions.

  • Radically Simplify Compliance

    Prevent misconfigurations and drift by enforcing guardrails from a library of more than 700 pre-built cloud security policies.

  • Proactively Address Risks

    Allow security teams to focus their investigation and remediation efforts without the distraction of alert storms.

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Infrastructure as Code Scanning

Since infrastructure is managed and provisioned as code in many cloud environments, this code must be continuously scanned for vulnerabilities, and assessing weaknesses in configuration files.

  • IaC Scanning

    Embed security into workflows with DevOps tooling for Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Dockerfile, Serverless and ARM templates.

  • Container Image Scanning

    Give developers actionable feedback and guardrails for vulnerabilities and compliance violations to keep these components secure.

  • Policy as Code

    Provide controls built into code that can be replicated, version-controlled and tested against live code repositories.

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Cloud Identity Entitlement Management

Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides privileged access and governance controls for distributed cloud environments.

  • Centrally Manage Identities

    Quickly audit cloud permissions and prevent security incidents that arise from improperly configured cloud entitlements.

  • Govern Access Across Public Clouds

    Continuously monitor multi-cloud environments and automatically make least privilege recommendations.

  • Integrate with Identity Providers

    View permission roles of IdP users and correlate results with cloud identities, such as IAM users and machine identities.

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Cloud Workload Protection Platforms

This type of security solution focuses on protecting workloads in cloud data center architectures, including VMs, hosts, containers, Kubernetes® or serverless architectures.

  • Multi-Cloud Security

    A centralized dashboard to help prioritize risks in real time across public cloud, private cloud and on-premises environments.

  • Agentless and Agent-Based Protection

    Only Prisma Cloud offers the flexibility to use agentless scanning and agent-based protections to suit your needs.

  • Integrate with DevOps Workflows

    A consolidated platform integrates vulnerability scanning and hardens checks into the CI/CD workflow.

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Prisma Cloud is the Industry’s Most Complete CNAPP

Achieve cloud compliance, detect and prevent vulnerabilities, and secure running applications with the industry’s only comprehensive Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). With support for hosts, containers and Kubernetes®, and serverless functions, Prisma Cloud protects all your modern applications.
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“Prisma Cloud provides risk clarity across the entire pipeline, showing issues as they are resolved... We have been able to detect things faster and remedy them faster.”

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“I liked how simple the console was and how simple the API was... The API documentation was also very good, so it was easy to scale. You could automate pretty much everything.”

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The Prisma Cloud Difference

Integrated
The power and advantage of the Prisma Cloud platform are in its simplified onboarding, correlated alerting and joint use cases. By combining visibility and remediation of the posture of your cloud infrastructure with the vulnerability exposure and protection of your hosts and containers, you gain complete coverage for your cloud native environment.
Flexible
Prisma Cloud gives security teams the flexibility to expand use cases all within a single solution and managed from a single dashboard. It's the industry’s only CNAPP to offer both agentless and agent-based security built into the same platform. Prisma Cloud provides the coverage needed to keep up with today’s ephemeral, containerized and serverless environments.
Effective
With Prisma Cloud, DevOps teams can deliver complete security across the development lifecycle on any cloud and implement methodologies with security tools integrated within their CI/CD workflows. In addition, its automated infrastructure decreases attack risks, accelerates time to market, and reduces the burdens on compliance teams.

Tested, Trusted and Proven ROI

Forrester: The Total Economic Impact of Prisma Cloud, June 2021

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ROI
ROI

276%

BENEFITS PV

$7.91M

PAYBACK

<6 months

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