SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) today announced the
release of Prisma® Access 2.0 to securely enable work-from-anywhere
with the industry's most complete cloud-delivered security
platform. As work continues to change and needs to be done securely
everywhere, with no compromise on speed, security or performance,
Prisma Access 2.0 introduces critical enhancements, including
self-healing infrastructure for optimal experience, ML-powered
security to help prevent attacks in real time, cloud SWG
capabilities for a secure web gateway regardless of user location,
and a reimagined cloud management experience.
2020 fueled a massive cloud adoption to accommodate the rapid
embracement of work-from-home. While enterprises are challenged to
secure users, applications and data that are now everywhere,
current cloud-delivered security offerings provide limited
application coverage and inadequate protections: 53% of all remote
workforce threats are for non-web apps,* so solutions that only
protect web applications leave organizations exposed to
threats.
Prisma Access, the market-leading solution, has taken a
fundamentally different approach, overcoming these limitations by
protecting all application traffic — not just web-based
applications — with complete, best-in-class security from a single
cloud-delivered platform while ensuring high-performance access and
optimized user experience.
The Prisma Access 2.0 release extends this vision further and
resets the bar for cloud-delivered security. It does so while
providing 10 times more throughput than other solutions for a
faster remote access connection and 4.3 million security updates
per day — about 25 times more than the closest competitor — to help
organizations rest assured their users and data are secure.
Prisma Access 2.0 key performance, security and management
enhancements include the following:
- New cloud management experience: Prisma Access 2.0
ensures the best possible security outcomes by introducing a
cloud-based management experience that leapfrogs the competition by
providing real-time security updates and best practices.
- New autonomous Digital Experience Management (DEM):
Prisma Access 2.0 can enable a self-healing infrastructure that
automatically remediates network problems, helping to ensure an
exceptional digital experience for remote workers.
- New ML-powered security: Prisma Access 2.0 uses inline
machine learning to prevent unknown, zero-day attacks in real time.
It also uses machine learning to analyze vast amounts of telemetry
data to make automated security policy recommendations — improving
security faster than security teams would be able to react.
- New cloud secure web gateway (SWG) capability: Palo Alto
Networks has added an explicit proxy to the Prisma Access Cloud SWG
— so customers can easily migrate from legacy proxy-based solutions
to a complete cloud-delivered security platform without the need
for network architecture changes. Over time, customers can easily
transition to a more secure connection method in Prisma Access that
protects all apps, ports and protocols, not just web.
- CloudBlades API-based platform support: CloudBlades is a
platform for third-party services integration across the SASE
solution. In Prisma Access 2.0, CloudBlades enables qualified
third-party security and infrastructure services to be easily
integrated, with the first being RBI services from leading vendors
to enable remote browser isolation.
Prisma Access 2.0 also adds powerful IoT security capabilities
to help organizations protect against IoT threats without the need
to deploy additional sensors or appliances; CloudBlades to simplify
and streamline the integration of cloud-delivered third-party
services starting with RBI services.
"Remote work is now a critical long-term strategy for most
organizations globally. As such, secure access to all apps with an
optimized user experience has become a business necessity," said
Anand Oswal, senior vice president
and general manager, Firewall as a Platform, Palo Alto Networks.
"To achieve this, organizations have to rethink their security
architecture and move towards a cloud-delivered security model that
can connect any user, to any application, from anywhere."
"While it was quite unexpected, 2020 was the year that remote
work became the norm for millions around the world. Even with the
optimism surrounding COVID-19 vaccines in 2021, it is clear remote
work is here to stay — and the cloud is how they will get there,"
said Eric Parizo, principal analyst,
Omdia. "The organizations that succeed will be those that not only
keep their data safe from cyberattacks, but also ensure the digital
experience for their remote workers is smooth and reliable. Omdia
believes cloud-delivered security approaches like Prisma Access by
Palo Alto Networks will become the predominant architectural model
to secure and enable the future of work moving forward."
"Prisma Access has well anticipated the security needs of
enterprise workforces as they continue a fundamental shift to
remote work. With Prisma Access 2.0, our security experts can offer
best-in-class security solutions and services at scale to meet any
connectivity need across the enterprise," said Bill Buckalew, vice president, Go-to-Market at
Optiv. "Customers appreciate the standards it sets for reliability,
access and performance."
More Information
- An overview of the Prisma Access cloud-delivered security
platform is available here.
- Join the virtual launch event on March
17 and 18, 2021, to learn more here.
Availability
Prisma Access 2.0 will be generally
available for new and existing customers in March 2021.
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks, the
global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future
with technology that is transforming the way people and
organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity
partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help
address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous
innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial
intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By
delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing
ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens
of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile
devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more
secure than the one before. For more information, visit
www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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*Palo Alto Networks, 2021 analysis of more than 500 enterprise
customers using Prisma Access
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