The Total Economic Impact™ of Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

Introduction

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Today’s enterprises continue to move to the cloud and leverage cloud native architectures, such as containers and Kubernetes®, for scaling their business applications and achieving greater market efficiencies. At the same time, with these new architectures and environments come security challenges that organizations must address both at runtime and across the full application lifecycle.

In 2021, Palo Alto Networks commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Prisma® Cloud. The purpose of the study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Prisma Cloud on their organizations.

In the study, organizations shared that they struggle to get visibility into cloud environments, address misconfigurations and vulnerable code, and ultimately scale security efforts due to challenges with legacy tools.

With Prisma Cloud, our Cloud Native Security Platform (CNSP), we’re addressing these concerns head on for enterprises.

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TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT

Delivering value for Prisma Cloud customers

Prisma Cloud is a CNSP that helps organizations secure cloud infrastructure and cloud native applications through cloud security posture monitoring, threat detection and response, and cloud workload protection covering hybrid and multi-cloud environments in one centralized location.

Prior to using Prisma Cloud, the customers had either no solution, used third-party point solutions or relied on cloud service provider (CSP) tooling. These solutions yielded limited success, leaving customers with little to no cloud security posture visibility, siloed developer and security processes and teams, and poor compliance and reporting.

After investing in Prisma Cloud, the customers improved their cloud security compliance, transformed security and developer operational agility, reduced the risk of breaches, and improved compliance efficiency.

QUANTIFIED BENEFITS

Improve SecOps effort to investigate incidents by 44%

Increased visibility into cloud security posture gives SecOps professionals continuous visibility, increases risk visibility, reduces time to distinguish false alerts and ultimately improves SecOps efficiency. Out-of-the-box Prisma Cloud policies and custom policy setting features reduce the time spent configuring and enforcing policies by 80%. Over three years, improved SecOps productivity equates to US$2.1 million in savings.

Improve DevOps efforts fixing vulnerabilities and misconfiguration by 60%

Prisma Cloud’s Cloud Workload Protection facilitates collaboration between SecOps and DevOps in addition to allowing DevOps to identify and fix vulnerabilities more efficiently before issues reach production. By resolving vulnerabilities earlier in the software development lifecycle, DevOps deploy safer software and avoid vulnerability issues downstream. DevOps productivity gains account for $1.1 million in savings.

Reduce time to create, review and consume compliance reporting by 90%, and improve audit efficiency by up to 64%

Prisma Cloud allows compliance professionals to create, revise and review evidence through easily accessible, automated reporting, enabling organizations to avoid manual, ad hoc and follow-up work. The improved productivity of internal and external compliance professionals saves nearly $840,000.

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS

Delivering comprehensive cloud native security

In addition to the quantified benefits, Prisma Cloud customers also spoke to value from improved security efforts, improved reporting and more. All of this is described in the full study.

Ability to scale cloud security efforts Prisma Cloud integrates SecOps and DevOps collaboration and processes, allowing organizations to meet the rising demands of increasing cloud adoption.

Implementation time-to-value Study interviewees reported their time to implement and receive value from Prisma Cloud was as short as two weeks.

TEI STUDY