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    Prisma AIRS Overview

    Prisma AIRS security platform overview.
    Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
    • Securing your entire enterprise architecture
    Welcome to the Prisma® AIRS™ administration guide. Now that you have successfully onboarded your Prisma AIRS security platform, follow this administration guide to learn how to deploy Prisma AIRS AI Runtime Network intercept and VM-Series firewalls.
    The guide covers how to configure traffic routes, secure your workloads by creating security policy rules, and monitor threat logs.
    This guide applies to securing your complete architecture. Whether you are an IT professional, security practitioner, developer, system administrator, or business leader, follow this guide to understand, deploy, configure, or manage Prisma AIRS and VM-Series firewalls.
    The guide covers securing diverse workloads including AI applications, containers, virtual machines, and serverless functions with the appropriate security platform based on your specific requirements.

    Prisma AIRS AI Runtime

    Prisma AIRS AI Runtime is a purpose-built, centralized, comprehensive AI security platform designed to secure the entire AI attack lifecycle. Prisma AIRS protects all AI and traditional applications, agents, models, and datasets enterprises build or use.

    Prisma AIRS Comprehensive Security

    Prisma AIRS provides security across three critical layers: in the code, at runtime, and in the cloud. It secures:
    • Your workloads, deployed in public, private, and hybrid clouds, with easy configurations and traffic routing.
    • All network traffic, including inbound, outbound, and east-west traffic in your cloud environment.
    • Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications, including pod-to-pod communication in private clouds.
    • AI and traditional applications running on virtual machines, containers, or cloud-native platforms.

    Key Components

    Prisma AIRS offers a comprehensive multi-layered security solution that addresses the full AI security lifecycle through these components:
    • Prisma AIRS AI Runtime: Network Intercept: An inline security intercept that provides real-time, AI-powered network protection. Monitors your cloud network architecture for AI-specific and conventional network attacks.
    • Prisma AIRS AI Runtime: API Intercept: Secures your AI model, AI applications, AI data, and AI agents by embedding Security-as-Code directly into your source code. The APIs scan prompts and model responses to identify potential threats programmatically and provide actionable recommendations.
    • AI Model Security: Scans all the AI models thoroughly for vulnerabilities and secures it before deployment to production environments. Implements security guards at the model registry level and establishes robust pre-deployment validation processes to prevent compromised models from reaching distribution.
    • AI Red Teaming: Prisma AIRS Provides automated AI Red Teaming that you can use for scanning your AI applications or agents for security vulnerabilities.

    Deployment Types

    This guide covers multiple Prisma AIRS AI Runtime: Network intercept and VM-Series firewall deployments to fit your architecture:
    • Public clouds: Deploy in public clouds such as GCP, AWS, and Azure environments.
    • Private clouds: On-premises and private infrastructure.
    • Manual deployment: Custom bootstrap configurations for your private and on-premises deployments.
    • Deploy a VM-Series Firewall from Strata Cloud Manager: Generate and download deployable Terraform templates to deploy VM-Series firewalls using the same deployment workflow as Prisma AIRS AI Runtime: Network Intercept, streamlining your deployment process.

    Management Methods

    • Prisma AIRS AI Runtime: Network intercept managed by Strata Cloud Manager: Centralized cloud-based management.
    • Prisma AIRS AI Runtime: Network intercept managed by Panorama.

    Before you Begin

    Start with activation and onboarding section to set up Prisma AIRS licenses, create a deployment profile in the customer support portal, meet minimum prerequisites, and onboard your cloud account for asset discovery. Then move on to the Cloud Resource Discovery page to assess the risks and see what you are protecting.

    Get Started

    Each section in the administration guide provides step-by-step instructions to deploy, configure, push security policy rules to the firewall, and monitor the traffic logs generated by Prisma AIRS AI Runtime: Network intercept or VM-Series firewall.
    Whether you are securing a single AI application or protecting an entire enterprise AI and legacy ecosystem, this guide helps you configure Prisma AIRS AI Runtime: Network intercept or VM-Series firewall to meet your specific security needs.

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