Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks Pros

Ali Mohiuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
The application visibility is amazing. For example, sometimes we don't know what a particular custom port is for and what is running on it. The visibility enables us to identify applications, what the protocol is, and what service is behind it. Within Azure, it is doing a great job of providing visibility. We know exactly what is passing through our network. If there is an issue of any sort we are able to quickly detect it and fix the problem.
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HariharanManikumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Presales & Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The container and serverless security is most valuable. It is quite a new technology for this region. Even though containers have been there for a long time, the adoption of containers is very minimal in this region. When it comes to using Kubernetes containers in a complex architecture, there is a lack of security in the market. People aren't aware of the security controls or the process for governance. Container security provided by Prisma Cloud is quite good at filling that gap.
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TejasJain - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Cloud Security Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Prisma Cloud helped us with compliance. Most of my deployments have been greenfield, so I don't have a benchmark to compare how the security posture has improved. I've always used this from day zero of the configuration. However, I can say that the compliance checks for PCI, DSS, HIPAA, etc., made my life simpler. I don't need to look at each of these standards and compare the rules I have in place.
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SS
Talent Acquisition Leader at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
As a pure-play CSPM, it is pretty good. From the data exposure perspective, Prisma Cloud does a fairly good job. Purely from the perspective of reading the conflicts, it is able to highlight any data exposures that I might be having.
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RK
Cloud Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the option to add custom queries using the RQL language that they supply so that we can customize the compliance frameworks to what we need to look for.
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Gabriel Montiel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Customer Technical Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features are the alerts and auto-remediation because it allows us a lot of flexibility to customize and do things the Palo Alto team never intended. We faced some challenges with certificates because we also have next-gen firewalls. We would like to equip all the traffic because there have been many cases in which the developers have done things by mistake. Deploying certificates on virtual machines can be complex in a development environment, but we managed to do that with Prisma Cloud.
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AC
Lead- Information Security Analyst at archan.fiem.it@gmail.com
Prisma Cloud is quite simple to use. The web GUI is powerful. Prisma Cloud scans the overall architecture of the AWS network to identify open ports and other vulnerabilities, then highlights them.
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SB
Cloud Security Consultant at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The first aspect that is important is the fact that Prisma Cloud is cloud-agnostic. It's actually available for the five top cloud providers: AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, and Alibaba Cloud. The second aspect is the fact that we can write our own rules to try to detect misconfigurations in those environments.
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CL
Director of Information Security Architecture at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the continuous cloud compliance monitoring and alerting.
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Arun Balaji G - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate Consultant at Infosys
It also provides us with a single tool to manage our entire cloud architecture. In fact, we are using a multi-account strategy with our AWS organization. We use Prisma as a single source of truth to identify high- or medium-severity threats inside our organization.
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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks Cons

Ali Mohiuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Getting new guys trained on using the solution requires some thought. If someone is already trained on Palo Alto then he's able to adapt quickly. But, if someone is coming from another platform such as Fortinet, or maybe he's from the system side, that is where we need some help. We need to find out if there is an online track or training that they can go to.
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HariharanManikumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Presales & Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We identified two things that we felt would be great to have, but they are under NDA. So, I can't disclose them. Other than those two things, we identified a generic bug in the secret key management service on AWS that needs to be fixed. We reported it to them, and we want them to fix it.
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TejasJain - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Cloud Security Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
A better correlation between the multiple products Prisma Cloud contains would be crucial. It would reduce the time spent looking at reports and enable you to get all the actionable insights across products. I think that Palo Alto is working on it, but they need to work faster because it doesn't make sense to have all these products in a single pane of glass without any correlation between them.
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SS
Talent Acquisition Leader at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Currently, custom reports are available, but I feel that those reports are targeting just the L1 or L2 engineers because they are very verbose. So, for every alert, there is a proper description, but as a security posture management portal, Prisma Cloud should give me a dashboard that I can present to my stakeholders, such as CSO, CRO, or CTO. It should be at a little bit higher level. They should definitely put effort into reporting because the reporting does not reflect the requirements of a dashboard for your stakeholders. There are a couple of things that are present on the portal, but we don't have the option to customize dashboards or widgets. There are a limited set of widgets, and those widgets don't add value from the perspective of a security team or any professional who is above L1 or L2 level. Because of this, the reach of Prisma Cloud in an organization or the access to Prisma Cloud will be limited only to L1 and L2 engineers. This is something that their development team should look into.
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RK
Cloud Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
One definite area for improvement is the auto-remediation or the CWP area. The second one is the RQL language. It is still not very flexible and does not cover a lot of use cases. The RQL language could be dramatically improved to add more options.
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Gabriel Montiel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Customer Technical Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
While Prisma provides a lot of visibility, it also creates a ton of work. Most customers that implement Prisma Cloud have thousands of alerts that are urgent.
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AC
Lead- Information Security Analyst at archan.fiem.it@gmail.com
Prisma Cloud's dashboards should be customizable. That's very important. Other similar solutions are more elastic so you have the power to create customized dashboards. In Prisma Cloud, you cannot do that.
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SB
Cloud Security Consultant at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
There are hundreds of built-in policies for AWS and Azure, but GCP and Oracle are not covered as much as AWS. There is a lot of work to do on that part. There is, obviously, a tiny bit of favoritism towards AWS because it has the most market share.
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CL
Director of Information Security Architecture at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We would like to have the detections be more contemporaneous. For example, we've seen detections of an overprivileged user or whatever it might be in any of the hundreds of Prisma policies, where there are 50 minutes of latency between the event and the alert.
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Arun Balaji G - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate Consultant at Infosys
One of the main backlogs in their development is in the area of integration. For example, we have ServiceNow in place for ticket management and Prisma Cloud is supposed to send closure emails for incidents. But from time to time, it fails to do so. We have several other mismatches between Prisma Cloud and ServiceNow.
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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks
May 2023
Learn what your peers think about Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2023.
710,326 professionals have used our research since 2012.