Prisma Access on the New Strata Cloud Manager Platform
Prisma Access is now supported on the new Strata Cloud Manager platform. We'll be
updating Prisma Access so that it is on the Strata Cloud Manager platform, alongside
your other Palo Alto Networks products and subscriptions that are supported for
unified management. If you've been using the Prisma Access app for Prisma Access
Cloud Management or for Prisma Access monitoring and visibility features (including
Autonomous DEM, Insights, and Activity dashboards and reports), the update to Strata
Cloud Manager introduces a new management and visibility experience.
Introducing Strata Cloud Manager: The AI-Powered Network Security Platform
Palo Alto Networks Strata Cloud Manager is the new AI-Powered network security
management and operations platform. With Strata Cloud Manager, you can easily manage
and monitor your Palo Alto Networks network security infrastructure ━ your NGFWs and
SASE environment ━ from a single, streamlined user interface. This new cloud
management experience gives you:
Shared policy for SASE and your NGFWs, and a unified view into
security effectiveness.
AI-Powered ADEM for Prisma SASE; this new Prisma Access add-on license
automates complex IT operations, to increase productivity and reduce time to
resolution for issues.
Best practice recommendations and workflows to strengthen security
posture and eliminate risk.
A common alerting framework that identifies network disruptions, so
you can maintain optimal health and performance.
Enhanced user experience, with contextual and interactive use-case
driven dashboards and license-aware data enrichment.
High-Bandwidth Private App Access with Colo-Connect
Supported in:
Cloud Managed Prisma Access
starting September 2023
Panorama Managed Prisma Access starting with release
4.1
Does your organization require high-bandwidth (more than 10 Gbps) access between its
network infrastructure and Prisma Access at multiple locations as part of your
hybrid multicloud strategy? Perhaps you’ve thought about aggregating multiple
service connections to achieve high bandwidth, but you’re concerned about
scalability. If so, Colo-Connect has you covered.
Today, large enterprises are building Colo-based performance hubs to reach private
applications in hybrid, multicloud architectures because of the high-bandwidth and
low-latency requirements. Typically, these hubs include interconnects to one or more
cloud providers and connections to the on-premises data centers over a private or
leased WAN. Performance hubs can route traffic between the public cloud and
on-premises infrastructure at high speed, and are resilient because of the
underlying interconnect infrastructure.
Colo-Connect builds on the Colo-based performance hub concept, offering
high-bandwidth (10-20 Gbps) low-latency connections, seamless Layer 2/3 connectivity
to Prisma Access from existing performance hubs. The following figure shows Prisma
Access being onboarded in a GCP instance using service connections and cloud
interconnects. This setup limits exposure to the internet and allows the use of
private connections for private application connectivity.
Colo-Connect allows you to use Prisma Access to secure private apps using a cloud
interconnect that can provide high-bandwidth service connections using the following
capabilities:
High bandwidth (up to 20-Gbps) throughput per region for private
application access
Support for multiple VLAN attachments (up to 20) per interconnect
link
Redundant connectivity support per region
Third-Party Device-ID
Supported in:
Cloud Managed Prisma Access starting June 2023
Panorama Managed Prisma Access starting with release
4.1
You can use the Cloud Identity Engine along with Prisma Access to apply information
from third-party IoT detection sources to simplify the task of identifying and
closing security gaps for devices in your network. After you set up Third-Party
Device-ID in the Cloud Identity Engine using an API, you can set up a device object
and a security policy rule in Prisma Access to obtain and use information from
third-party IoT visibility solutions through the Cloud Identity Engine for device
visibility and control.
In the following figure, the Third-Party Device-ID service receives the device
information from the third-party IoT solutions, which it then transmits as IP
address-to-device mappings to the Cloud Identity Engine and the Prisma Access
Security Processing Nodes (SPNs).
Traffic Replication and PCAP Support
Supported in:
Cloud Managed Prisma Access
starting September 2023
Panorama Managed Prisma Access starting with release
4.1
Prisma Access secures your traffic in real time based on traffic inspection, threat
analysis, and security policies. While you can view Prisma Access logs to view
security events, your organization might have a requirement to save packet capture (PCAP) files for forensic and
analytical purposes, for example:
You need to examine your traffic using industry-specific or
privately-developed monitoring and threat tools in your organization and
those tools require PCAPs for additional content inspection, threat
monitoring, and troubleshooting.
After an intrusion attempt or the detection of a new zero-day threat, you
need to preserve and collect PCAPs for forensic analysis both before and
after the attempt. After you analyze the PCAPs and determine the root cause
of the intrusion event, you could then create a new policy or implement a
new security posture.
Your organization needs to download and archive PCAPs for a specific period of
time and retrieve as needed for legal or compliance requirements.
Your organization requires PCAPs for network-level troubleshooting (for example,
your networking team requires data at a packet level to debug application
performance or other network issues).
To accomplish these objectives, you can enable traffic replication which uses the
Prisma Access cloud to replicate traffic and encrypt PCAP files using your
organization's encryption certificates. To store the PCAP files, you create a GCP service account, which Prisma Access uses as the
storage location of the PCAP files.
Service Provider Backbone Integration
Supported in:
Cloud Managed Prisma Access starting June 2023
Panorama Managed Prisma Access starting with release
4.1
Prisma Access can integrate with a service provider (SP) backbone, which allows you
(the SP) to assign specific region and egress internet capabilities to your tenants,
providing more granular control over the Prisma Access egress traffic.
Transparent SafeSearch Support
Supported in:
Cloud Managed Prisma Access starting June 2023
Panorama Managed Prisma Access starting with release
4.2
Prisma Access allows you to resolve mobile users' search engine queries to the
engine's SafeSearch portal by performing an FQDN-to-IP mapping. This functionality
can be useful if you have guest internet services at your organization and you want
your guests to safely use search engines, preventing them from searching for
potentially inappropriate or offensive material that could be against company
policy.
Private IP Visibility and Enforcement for Explicit Proxy Traffic Originating from
Remote Networks
Supported in:
Cloud Managed Prisma Access starting June 2023
Panorama Managed Prisma Access starting with release
4.2
You can now leverage the private IP addresses of the systems in your branch locations
that are forwarding traffic to Explicit Proxy using Proxy mode. You can use the private
IP address to skip authentication of headless systems that can't authenticate, set
up security policies, and get visibility of the traffic on Prisma Access Explicit
Proxy.
You can enable this functionality when you secure users and devices at a branch with
a site-to-site IPSec tunnel using Remote
Network and Explicit Proxy Secure Processing Nodes (SPNs).
New and Remapped Prisma Access Locations and Compute Locations
Supported in:
Cloud Managed Prisma Access starting June 2023
Panorama Managed Prisma Access starting with release
4.2
—The following new compute locations are added, and
the following locations are moved to these compute locations:
Europe North (Stockholm)
—The new Sweden location is added to this
compute location.
Middle-East Central (UAE)
—The United Arab Emirates location is
moved to this location.
Middle-East Central (Qatar)
—The new Qatar location is added to
this compute location.
New Prisma Access Locations
—The following new Prisma Access locations are
added:
Sweden
Kazakhstan
Qatar
Senegal
Remapped Prisma Access Locations
—To better optimize performance of Prisma
Access, the following locations have been remapped to the following compute
locations:
Ecuador
—Remapped from the US Central compute location to the US
Southeast compute location
Jordan
—Remapped from the Europe Central compute location to the
Europe South compute location
New deployments have the new remapping applied automatically. If you
have an existing Prisma Access deployment that uses one of these locations
and you want to take advantage of the remapped compute location, follow the
procedure to add a new compute location to a deployed
Prisma Access location.
