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 This?	What Do I Need?
Prisma Access (with Strata Cloud Manager or Panorama configuration management)	`Prisma Access` license

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 ManageConfigurationOverview 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 Strata Logging Service.
Review and manage administrator roles and access.

Go to SettingsIdentity and Access 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 the SaaS Security Console to add SaaS Security Inline administrators.
Explore the SaaS Security dashboard in Prisma Access Cloud Management.

Go to ManageConfigurationSecurity ServicesSaaS Security.

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.
- Here’s more on the SaaS Security report
- Here’s how to generate the SaaS Security report in the SaaS Security Inline app
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 ManageConfigurationSecurity ServicesSaaS Security
You can review and import SaaS rule recommendations.
➡ Go to ManageWeb SecurityWeb Access Policy
The SaaS rule recommendations you’ve imported are labeled so you can easily identify them.