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    What Features Does Prisma Access Support?

    Learn about what features are supported for Prisma™ Access.
    Prisma™ Access helps you to deliver consistent security to your remote networks and mobile users. There are two ways that you can deploy and manage Prisma Access:
    • Cloud Managed Prisma Access
      —If you aren’t using Panorama to manage firewall, the Prisma Access app on the hub gives you a simplified way to onboard and manage Prisma Access.
    • Panorama Managed Prisma Access
      —If you are already using Panorama™ to manage your next-generation firewalls, you can use Panorama to deploy Prisma Access and leverage your existing configurations. You’ll need the Cloud Services plugin to use Panorama for Prisma Access.
    The features and IPSec parameters supported for Prisma Access vary depending on the management interface you’re using: Panorama or the Prisma Access app. You cannot switch between the management interfaces after you’ve activated your Prisma Access license. This means you must decide how you want to manage Prisma Access before begin setting up the product. See Prisma Access Feature Support to select your management interface.
    For a description of the features that are supported in GlobalProtect™, see What Features Does GlobalProtect Support?

    Prisma Access Feature Support

    The following sections provide you with the supported features and network settings for Prisma Access (both Panorama Managed and Cloud Managed).

    Management

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama Managed)
    Best Practice Checks
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    Default Configurations
    Default settings enable you to get started quickly and securely
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    Examples include:
    • Default DNS settings
    • Default GlobalProtect settings, including for the Prisma Access portal
    • Default Prisma Access infrastructure settings
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    Built-in Best Practice Rules
    So you’re as secure as possible, enable your users and applications based on best practice templates. With best practices as your basis, you can then refine policy based on your enterprise needs.
    √
    Features with best practice rules include:
    • Security rules
    • Security profiles
    • Decryption
    • M365
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    Onboarding Walkthroughs for First-Time Setup
    Guided walkthroughs include:
    • Onboard Remote Networks
    • Onboard Mobile Users (GlobalProtect)
    • Onboard Your HQ or Data Centers
    • Turn on Decryption
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    Centralized Management Dashboards
    Can includes Best Practice scores and usage information
    √
    Dashboards are available for features including:
    • Security Policy
    • Security Profiles
    • Decryption
    • Authentication
    • Certificates
    • SaaS Application Management
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    Hit Counts
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    Hit counts for security profiles include counts that measure the profile’s effectiveness, and these can depend on the profile (for example, unblocked critical and high severity vulnerabilities, or WildFire submission types).
    Policy Rule Usage
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    Introduced in 2.0 Innovation. Not supported in Preferred releases.
    Profile Groups
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    Remote Networks

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    IPSec Tunnels
    See Supported IKE Cryptographic Parameters for a list of the supported IKE crypto parameters.
    FQDNs for peer IPSec addresses are not supported; use an IP address for the peer address instead.
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    Secure Inbound Access
    Tunnel Monitoring
    Dead Peer Detection (DPD)
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    ICMP
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    Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
    —
    —
    SNMP
    Use Tunnel Monitoring instead of SNMP to monitor the tunnels in Prisma Access.
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    Service Connections

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    IPSec Tunnels
    See Supported IKE Cryptographic Parameters for a list of the supported IKE crypto parameters.
    √
    √
    FQDNs for peer IPSec addresses are not supported; use an IP address for the peer address instead.
    Tunnel Monitoring
    Dead Peer Detection (DPD)
    √
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    ICMP
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    Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
    —
    —
    SNMP
    Use Tunnel Monitoring instead of SNMP to monitor the tunnels in Prisma Access.
    —
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    Traffic Steering
    (using policy-based forwarding rules to forward internet-bound traffic to service connections)
    Introduced in version 1.7.

    Mobile Users—GlobalProtect

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    Using On-Premise Gateways (Hybrid Deployments)
    On-premise gateway integration with Prisma Access
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    √
    Using on-premise gateways with Prisma Access gateways is supported.
    Priorities for Prisma Access and On-Premise Gateways
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    Supported for deployments that have on-premise GlobalProtect gateways. You can set a priority separately for on-premise gateways and collectively for all gateways in Prisma Access. You can also specify source regions for on-premise gateways.
    Manual Gateway Selection
    Users can manually select a cloud gateway from their client machines using the GlobalProtect app.
    GlobalProtect Gateway Modes
    External Mode
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    Internal Mode
    You cannot configure Prisma Access gateways as internal gateways; however, you can add one or more on-premise gateways and configure them as internal gateways.
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    GlobalProtect App Connect Methods
    User-Logon (always on)
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    Pre-Logon (always on)
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    Pre-Logon (then on-demand)
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    On-Demand
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    Clientless VPN
    Clientless VPN
    Mobile User—GlobalProtect Features
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    Mobile Device Management (MDM)
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    MDM Integration with HIP
    Prisma Access does not support AirWatch MDM HIP service integration; however, you can use the GlobalProtect App for iOS and Android MDM Integration for HIP-Based Policy Enforcement
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    Administratively Log Out Mobile Users
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    Introduced in version 1.4.
    DHCP
    Prisma Access uses the IP address pools you specify during mobile user setup to assign IP addresses to mobile users and does not use DHCP.
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    GlobalProtect App Version Controls
    √
    One-click configuration for GlobalProtect agent log collection

    Mobile Users—Explicit Proxy

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    Explicit Proxy Support
    Introduced in version 2.0 Innovation.
    Guided Walkthrough:
    Best Practices for Explicit Proxy
    √
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    Security Services

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    Security Policy
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    DoS Protection
    The Prisma Access infrastructure manages DoS protection.
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    SaaS Application Management
    Supported for:
    • Microsoft 365 apps
      Includes a guided walkthrough to safely enable M365
    • Google apps
    • Dropbox
    • YouTube
    —
    Security Profiles
    Supported Profile Types
    √
    • Anti-Spyware
    • DNS Security
    • Vulnerability Protection
    • WildFire and Antivirus
    • URL Filtering
    • File Blocking
    • Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
    • HTTP Header Insertion
    √
    • Anti-Spyware
    • DNS Security (enabled via an Anti-Spyware profile)
    • Vulnerability Protection
    • Antivirus
    • WildFire
    • URL Filtering
    • File Blocking
    • Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
    Dashboards for Security Profiles
    Dashboards are tailored to each profile, and give you:
    • centralized management for security service features
    • visibility into profile usage and effectiveness
    • access to cloud databases (search for threat coverage, for example)
    —
    Best Practice Scores for Security Profiles
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    HTTP response pages are supported for mobile users and users at remote networks. To use HTTPS response pages, open a CLI session in the Panorama that manages Prisma Access, enter the
    set template Mobile_User_Template config deviceconfig setting ssl-decrypt url-proxy yes
     command in configuration mode, and commit your changes.
    HTTP Header Insertion
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    Decryption
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    Guided Walkthrough:
    Turn on Decryption
    √
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    Network Services

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    Network Services
    Prisma Access uses the same QoS policy rules and QoS profiles and supports the same Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) markings as Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls.
    √
    √
    QoS is not supported for remote networks in Prisma Access 1.8 and later.
    Application Override
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    IPv4 Addressing
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    IPv6 Addressing
    Introduced in version 2.2 preferred.
    √
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    Split Tunnel Based on Access Route
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    Split Tunnel Based on Destination Domain, Client Process, and Video Streaming Application
    √
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    NetFlow
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    NAT
    Prisma Access automatically manages outbound NAT; you cannot configure the settings.
    √
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    SSL VPN Connections
    √
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    Routing Features
    Static Routing
    √
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    Dynamic Routing (BGP)
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    Dynamic Routing (OSPF)
    —
    —
    High Availability
    Availability maintained by Palo Alto Networks.
    √

    Identity Services

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    Authentication Types
    SAML
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    TACACS+
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    RADIUS
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    LDAP
    √
    Kerberos
    √
    Kerberos is supported for Windows clients only.
    MFA
    √
    Local Database Authentication
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    Authentication Features
    Authentication Rules
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    Authentication Portal
    √
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    Supported for mobile users with GlobalProtect.
    √
    Supported for both IPSec and mobile users with GlobalProtect.
    —
    —
    Framed-IP-Address retrieval from RADIUS server
    —
    —
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    Single Sign-On (SSO)
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    Directory Sync (Cloud Identity Engine)
    Directory Sync for User and Group-Based Policy
    √
    Supports on-premises Active Directory and Azure Active Directory.
    √
    Supports on-premises Active Directory and Azure Active Directory.
    This feature is not supported with multi-tenancy.
    Introduced in version 1.6. Support for Azure Active Directory introduced in 2.0 Preferred.
    Identity Redistribution
    • IP-address-to-username mappings
    • HIP
    • Device Quarantine
    • IP-Tag
    • User-Tag
    √
    √
    Ingestion of IP-address-to-username mappings from 3rd party integration (NAC)
    —
    √
    —
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    Introduced in version 1.7.
    Requires a Panorama version of 9.1.1 or later.

    Policy Objects

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    Addresses
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    Address Groups
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    Dynamic Address Groups (DAGs) and Auto-Tags
    √
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    XML API - Based DAG Updates
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    Regions
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    App-ID (Applications)
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    Commit warnings are not supported for Prisma Access.
    Service-Based Session Timeouts
    √
    Application Groups
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    Application Filters
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    Services
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    Service Groups
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    Tags
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    Introduced in version 1.7.
    Requires a Panorama version of 9.1.1 or later.
    Auto-Tag Actions
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    HIP Objects
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    HIP-Based Security Policy
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    HIP Report Submission
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    HIP Report Viewing
    —
    √
    Introduced in version 1.5.
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    Introduced in version 1.5.
    HIP Objects and Profiles
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    Certificate Management
    Custom Certificates
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    Palo Alto Networks Issued Certificates
    √
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    Certificate Profiles
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    Custom Certificates
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    SSL/TLS Service Profiles
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    SSL
    SSL is supported only for Mobile Users, not for site-to-site VPNs
    √
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    SCEPs
    √
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    OCSP Responders
    √
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    Default Trusted Certificate Authorities
    √
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    Logs

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    √
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    Cortex™ Data Lake Log Storage
    √
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    Forward logs stored in Cortex Data Lake to syslog and email destinations
    √
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    Default log forwarding profile
    √
    HTTP, SNMP, auto-tagging in Built-in Actions not supported
    √
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    Introduced in version 1.7.
    Requires Panorama 9.1.1 or a later version. If you use a Panorama 9.0 version, you can still see traffic and HIP logs from Panorama but you need to use the Explore app from the Hub to see the remaining logs.

    Reports

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    Reports
    Cortex Data Lake allows scheduled reports and custom reports on Panorama. For more information, see Scheduled Reports for Cortex Data Lake (minimum Cloud Services plugin version 1.8 and minimum Panorama version of 10.0.0.2 required).
    App Report
    This feature has the following Cortex Data Lake-based limitation:
    SaaS Application Usage
     report (
    Monitor
    PDF Reports
    SaaS Application Usage
    )—Cannot filter the logs for user groups (the
    Include user group information in the report
     choice is not supported)
    Usage Report
    User Activity Report
    Best Practices Report
    √
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    Integration with Other Palo Alto Networks Products

    Feature
    Prisma Access (Cloud-Managed)
    Prisma Access (Panorama-Managed)
    Cortex XSOAR integration
    —
    √
    Source IP-based allow lists and malicious user activity detection is supported.
    √
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    The Panorama Enterprise DLP plugin is supported starting with version 2.0 Innovation and supports multi-tenancy with the following caveats:
    You manage DLP data patterns and data filtering profiles at the superuser-level admin user, and all tenants share the same patterns and profiles. However, you can implement security policies at a per-tenant level and associate different data filtering profiles per tenant, to allow you per-tenant control over what profiles are used.
    The superuser-level admin user must commit all changes to Panorama whenever a change to DLP profiles and patterns are made.
    This feature is not supported with multi-tenancy with Preferred Prisma Access versions.
    Cortex XDR integration
    √
    Cortex XDR receives Prisma Access log information from Cortex Data Lake.
    √
    Cortex XDR receives Prisma Access log information from Cortex Data Lake.
    Prisma SaaS integration
    IoT Security Integration
    —
    √
    Introduced in version 2.0 Innovation.

    Multi-Tenancy Unsupported Features

    The following Prisma Access (Panorama Managed) features are not supported in a multi-tenant deployment:

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