Strata Cloud Manager
Manage: SaaS Security
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Manage: SaaS Security
Manage your organization’s shadow IT risks, secure SaaS applications from cloud
threats, and ensuee compliance across all SaaS applications.
Where Can I Use
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Identify cloud-based threats and risky user activity in sanctioned and unsanctioned
apps with SaaS Security Inline.
SaaS Security Inline is built-in to Cloud
Managed Prisma Access to give you a centralized view of network and CASB security.
It offers SaaS visibility—which includes advanced analytics and reporting—so that your organization has
the insights to understand the data security risks of sanctioned and unsanctioned
SaaS application usage on your network.
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) bundle includes Saas Security Inline, Enterprise
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Inline, SaaS Security API, Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
API, and SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM).
The Next-Generation Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB-X)
license contains all the CASB components such as SaaS Security Inline, SaaS Security
API, SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), and Enterprise DLP. It can be applied
on Cloud-Managed Prisma Access, Panorama Managed Prisma Access, and Panorama-Managed
Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) devices in a single tenant environment.
Here’s everything you need to know
to use SaaS Security on
Strata Cloud Manager
.Get Started
Here’s how to get up and running with SaaS Security Inline on Prisma Access Cloud
Management:
- Confirm that the SaaS Security add-on license is included with your Prisma Access subscription.Go to to check what's available with your license.
- If you haven’t already, activate the SaaS Security Inline app on the hub.After activation, SaaS Security Inline automatically discovers all SaaS applications and users and analyzes users’ SaaS activity and usage data from your Prisma Access logs that are stored in Cortex Data Lake.
- Review and manage administrator roles and access.Go to to provide role-based access to SaaS Security controls in Prisma Access Cloud Management.To comprehensively manage SaaS Security, users must also be an administrator for the SaaS Security Inline app. Jump directly from the Prisma Access Cloud Management dashboard to theSaaS Security Consoleto add SaaS Security Inline administrators.
- Explore theSaaS Securitydashboard in Prisma Access Cloud Management.Go to .All dashboard views are supported directly in Prisma Access Cloud Management. Examine these views to identify risky SaaS applications and users and SaaS Security Posture Management. SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) helps detect and remediate misconfigured settings in sanctioned SaaS applications through continuous monitoring.
- Review and share the SaaS Security report.SaaS Security Inline includes a SaaS Security report that provides a snapshot of application usage with advanced aggregated data and views. This report serves as a communication tool between your SaaS security team and executive management. You can share this on-demand PDF report with your SaaS security team for a periodic check-in, or email the report to your executives to highlight the SaaS applications in use in your organization and the security risks they pose.
- See what else you can do with SaaS Security and Prisma Access Cloud Management.
SaaS Policy Recommendations
To gain visibility into and control of SaaS applications, SaaS Security admins
create SaaS rule recommendations with specific SaaS App-IDs provided by the
App-ID Cloud Engine (ACE).
In Prisma Access Cloud Management, you can now review and choose to accept the
rules that SaaS Security admins recommend. SaaS rule recommendations are added
to your web access policy—you must have Web Security enabled to leverage SaaS
rule recommendations.
Here’s how you can get started — review the workflow to review and accept SaaS policy
recommendations here:
- SaaS Security admins create SaaS rule recommendations in the SaaS Security Inline app or directly in Prisma Access Cloud Management.➡ In Prisma Access Cloud Management, go to
- You can review and import SaaS rule recommendations.➡ Go to
- The SaaS rule recommendations you’ve imported are labeled so you can easily identify them.
