At Palo Alto Networks we have committed to helping organizations accelerate their move to the cloud. And today, we’re taking another big step forward.
With the expansion of our comprehensive cloud security offering, we can now deliver consistent, automated protections across all three major public cloud environments, which prevent data loss and business disruption and meet a number of needs our customers have asked for. This expansion includes the ability to integrate into the cloud app development lifecycle, making cloud security frictionless for the development and security teams.
Let’s talk about why this is so important.
Rethinking Security for the Public Cloud
For many organizations, the public cloud has become the sole route to market for new application deployment, which, in turn, is reducing their data center footprint. Along with that, developers now increasingly leverage easy-to-consume PaaS components, in addition to on-demand IaaS components, to harness the true efficiency of the cloud.
This trend is causing all of us to rethink security for our cloud apps and realize that what’s available the market today is insufficient: clunky approaches, pieced together from multiple vendors, resulting in a fragmented security environment where IT teams must manually correlate data to implement actionable security protections.
This level of human intervention increases the likelihood for human error, leaving organizations exposed to threats and data breaches. What’s more, security tools that are not built for the cloud significantly limit the agility of your development teams.
3 Key Capabilities
Ideally, cloud security should speed application development and business growth while preventing data loss and business downtime. This requires three key capabilities to be successful: advanced application and data breach prevention, consistent protection across locations and clouds, and “frictionless” deployment and management.
Our cloud security approach addresses all three capabilities, and we achieve this with inline, API and host protection technologies working together to eliminate the wide range of cloud risks.
Our new release includes the following:
That’s just the start of new capabilities for cloud and SaaS security we’re pleased to be able to offer. To learn more about these new features and our advanced approach, visit our cloud security page.
Availability
Updates to VM-Series virtualized next-generation firewalls, Aperture security service, Panorama and Traps are targeted for general availability in March 2018.
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