IoT Security Integration with Prisma Access
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IoT Security Integration with Prisma Access
Use IoT Security with Prisma Access to gain visibility
and protection of IoT devices in your remote networks.
Prisma Access uses a cloud-based
infrastructure that lets you avoid the challenges of sizing firewalls
and computing resource allocation while securing remote networks
and mobile users. To identify IT and IoT devices at your remote
sites, detect IoT device vulnerabilities, and discover threats posed
to these devices and the network, Prisma Access can integrate with
IoT Security through a purchased add-on. In addition, IoT Security
also provides Prisma Access with policy rule recommendations through
Panorama to permit only acceptable network behavior and block anomalous
behavior from your IoT devices.
For IoT Security to identify IT and IoT devices, and analyze
risk levels and detect security alerts on IoT devices, it must be
able to access network traffic metadata. The more data it has to
work with, the more accurate and faster it can be. Therefore, it's
critical to do two things to collect as much traffic metadata as possible.
First, design your network strategically so that Prisma Access sees
all traffic from your remote sites, including DHCP traffic. Then
apply policy rules to as much traffic as you can and enable logging and log forwarding on
these rules to send traffic metadata to Cortex Data Lake.
DHCP traffic is particularly important to IoT Security. It provides
IoT Security with useful data, including a mapping of the IP address
to MAC address of each DHCP client, which is a critical element
of the IP address-to-device
mappings used for device identification. To obtain this data,
ensure that a DHCP server is in your data center or in a similar
centralized site and a DHCP relay agent is on the customer premises
equipment (CPE) where the remote network connection terminates at
each site. Each relay agent forwards the DHCP messages it receives
from DHCP clients through the Prisma Access service infrastructure to
the IP address of the DHCP server. On the policy rule allowing DHCP
traffic from the remote sites to the DHCP server, be sure logging
and log forwarding are enabled so that Prisma Access sends DHCP
traffic logs to Cortex Data Lake. In fact, if you have not already
done so, enable logging and log forwarding on all policy rules.
With log forwarding enabled, Prisma Access sends its logs through
Cortex Data Lake, which then streams metadata to IoT Security for
analysis.
Prisma Access cannot forward logs to IoT Security for Layer 2 traffic or Layer 3 traffic where
both the source and destination are in the same site because such traffic never
reaches it. Without ARP and DHCP traffic metadata in particular, identifying devices
might take IoT Security longer and its confidence might be lower than it otherwise
would be. To counter this, consider deploying SD-WAN ION devices at remote sites
where they can log these types of traffic and forward their logs to Cortex Data Lake
for IoT Security to access. By integrating IoT Security with both Prisma Access
and SD-WAN, IoT Security can gain visibility into traffic that flows
between sites and the Internet as well as traffic that stays within a site.
After IoT Security has sufficient information to identify devices
from their network behavior, it provides Prisma Access with IP address-to-device
mappings and Panorama with policy recommendations that
the Panorama administrator can import and then push to Prisma Access
to enforce policy on IoT device traffic. In addition, Prisma Access
downloads device dictionary files from the update server. The device
dictionary lists various device attributes with which the Panorama administrator
can construct Security policy rules. The combination of IP address-to-device
mappings, policy recommendations, and device dictionary files comprise
the elements of the Device-ID feature
introduced in PAN-OS 10.0.
Required Panorama Configuration
Check that you have enabled Enhanced Application Logs on
your log forwarding profiles.
- Log in to Panorama and select under theRemote_Network_Device_Groupdevice group or a parent device group.
- Open your log forwarding profiles and make sure thatEnable enhanced application logging to Cortex Data Lakeis selected.
Requirements for using IoT Security with Prisma Access
To use the IoT Security add-on with Prisma Access, check that
your deployment meets the following requirements:
- Prisma Access is running the Prisma Access 2.0-Innovation release or later.
- You have purchased and activated licenses for Cortex Data Lake and the IoT Security add-on for Prisma Access.If you are a new Panorama-managed Prisma Access customer as of August 2022, activate new Prisma Access licenses through the Prisma SASE platform.If you are an existing Panorama-managed Prisma Access customer from before August 2022, your Prisma Access tenant will be transitioned from the hub to the Prisma SASE platform. After the transition, you will no longer see a Prisma Access app title on the hub. However, there will be a button on the hub to navigate to sase.paloaltonetworks.com where you can activate new Prisma Access licenses through the Prisma SASE platform. Until then, continue to manage your deployment as you’ve been doing.
- The deployment of Prisma Access in a particular region requires that the Cortex Data Lake instance and IoT Security application it works with to be in a particular location as well. The following table shows the relationship of Prisma Access deployments in different regions to the locations of Cortex Data Lake and IoT Security.Prisma AccessCortex Data LakeIoT SecurityAmericasCanadaCanadaCanadaUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited StatesEuropean UnionFranceFranceGermanyGermanyGermanyGermanyItalyItalyGermanyPolandPolandGermanySpainSpainGermanyNetherlandsNetherlandsGermanySwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerlandUnited KingdomUnited KingdomUnited KingdomAsia-PacificAustraliaAustraliaAustraliaChinaChinaSingaporeIndiaIndiaSingaporeJapanJapanJapanSingaporeSingaporeSingapore
- You’re using Panorama 10.0 or later to manage Prisma Access.With a mixed deployment of Prisma Access and on-premises next-generation firewalls, you must use the same Panorama management system to manage them and the same IoT Security tenant for both.
- DHCP is being served from a data center or from some other central site.
- The Prisma Access infrastructure provides routing from remote sites to data center resources, which include the DHCP server.
- A DHCP relay agent on the VPN terminator at all remote sites points to the IP address of the DHCP server in the data center.
- Security policy rules in Prisma Access control traffic to the Internet, the data center, and other remote sites. Logging is enabled on these policies and Prisma Access forwards logging data to Cortex Data Lake, which streams it to IoT Security.IoT Security uses Enhanced Application logs (EALs), traffic logs (which include DHCP traffic), threat logs, and wildfire logs. Make sure that your policy rules have logging enabled and are forwarding EALs and traffic logs to Cortex Data Lake. Although the last two log types are not required for IoT Security to function, we recommend getting licenses for threat prevention and Wildfire and forwarding their logs as well because they help improve risk assessment and malware detection.
Once these requirements are met, use IoT Security to monitor
traffic metadata, identify IoT devices, detect vulnerabilities,
discover threats, and prepare policy rule recommendations. Import
policy rule recommendations from IoT Security into Panorama or configure
Device-ID policy rules directly in Panorama and then push them to
Prisma Access for policy enforcement on IoT device traffic.