The Department of Defense can now protect its
distributed mission-critical infrastructure with cloud-delivered
security of Prisma Access
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., April 12,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To secure its highly distributed
mission-critical infrastructure, the Department of Defense (DoD)
can now protect its systems with Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW)
Prisma® Access. Palo Alto Networks®, the global cybersecurity
leader, today announced Prisma Access has achieved Department of
Defense Impact Level 5 (IL5) Provisional Authorization (PA),
allowing its cloud-delivered security to protect U.S. Department of
Defense agencies and help enforce a Zero Trust Strategy.
"As the DoD modernizes its network, the adoption of cloud
infrastructure is on the rise. It has become an urgent mandate
to provide users with Zero Trust access to resources,
regardless of their location, to accomplish their missions," said
Lee Klarich, executive vice
president and chief product officer, Palo Alto Networks. "The IL5
PA for Prisma Access can provide the DoD with consistent,
best-in-class security and least-privileged access to controlled
unclassified information (CUI), designated mission-critical
information and National Security Systems (NSS) information."
As defined by the DoD, IL5 is the highest unclassified level of
authorization for DoD agencies. This authorization for Prisma
Access offers:
- Protection for all applications and data: Secure access
to all privileged data across web and non-web-based traffic,
reducing the risk of data breaches.
- Complete security for multiple use cases: With Prisma
Access, agencies can enforce Zero Trust access, enabling users to
connect — securely and conditionally — to any application,
including sanctioned cloud apps and mission data, through a single
centralized service.
- Optimized user experience: A massively scalable service,
offering an unmatched digital experience that is directly connected
to the Department of Defense Information Network (DoDIN) and its
authorized clouds, providing ultralow latency backed by
industry-leading SLAs.
- Maximize existing security investments: Agencies using
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) can leverage
their existing security policies in Prisma Access and manage the
service with the same familiar, centralized management system.
With the DoD IL5 PA, Prisma Access can help the DoD modernize
its infrastructure and achieve consistent Zero Trust outcomes for
users, devices, networks and applications. It offers a proven
solution that contributes to meeting the DoD's rigorous Zero Trust
requirements and guidelines for adopting a Zero Trust architecture,
powered by ZTNA 2.0.
Prisma Access is the security service edge (SSE) component
of Prisma SASE, the industry's most complete secure access service
edge (SASE) solution that converges networking and security in a
single offering. Purpose-built for cloud-enabled DoD agencies,
Prisma Access consolidates multiple point products into a single
integrated service, reducing complexity while increasing
organizational agility.
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