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AI Canvas Best Practices

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Learn effective prompting techniques and explore data exploration strategies to maximize your AI Canvas experience.

To get the most out of AI Canvas, follow these best practices for creating effective natural language queries and exploring your security data.

Best Practices for Prompting

Effective prompting is key to getting accurate and useful results from AI Canvas. Follow these guidelines to craft better queries:

Begin with broad metrics.
Start your analysis with high-level overviews to understand the scope:
- Show me the total number of threats in the last 24 hours.
- Summarize our overall security posture this week.
Segment by categories.
Break down information into logical segments:
- Break down threats by category and severity.
- Show distribution of traffic by application type.
Identify key contributors.
Find the most significant entities:
- Who are the top 10 affected users this week?
- Which apps generated the most incidents?
Analyze trends over time.
Look for patterns across different time periods:
- Compare incident volume this week vs. last week.
- Trend of traffic volume by application over the past 30 days.
Explore correlations.
Investigate relationships between different factors:
- Show top users by threat category and source IP.
- What are the most used high-risk applications by location?
Apply targeted filters.
Narrow focus to specific areas of interest:
- Show me threats from San Jose with severity high.
- Display only critical alerts affecting production servers.
Detect anomalies.
Look for unusual patterns or outliers:
- What unusual traffic patterns were observed today?
- Identify any spike in failed login attempts this week.

Use these sample prompts as starting points for your own queries:

Show me the top 5 threat categories, subcategories, and severities in the last 24 hours
Show me top affected users by those top 5 threats
Show me the top affected users and threat count in the last 24 hours
Show me the top 5 users along with their threat ID, source IP, and destination IP for threat category C2
Show me the top threats by session
Show me the top threat subcategories by session
Show me the number of threats per PA location

How many users are using GlobalProtect version 6.3.3 and what are their names?
How many users have been seen in the last week running GlobalProtect version 6.3.3?
How many Prisma Access users in the last 30 days
Show me top 10 users with high bandwidth

Show me top 10 incidents in PA locations
Show me top users impacted by top incidents
What are the top 10 Prisma Access locations seeing high traffic volume?
What is the current status of each PA location
Provide a list of all Prisma Access locations with the respective number of egress IPs for MU, EP, and RNs
Give me the list of all migrated Remote Networks
Provide me the count of Remote Networks which are down
Show me the tunnels which are in UP status

For additional Strata Copilot prompt examples across, see Strata Copilot Prompts.

Follow these systematic approaches to explore your security data effectively:

Identify Key Metrics
Start by asking for high-level summaries to understand the overall state of your environment.
Example: Show me the total number of threats in the last 24 hours.
Drill Down Into Categories
Narrow the focus by exploring subcategories or specific types of data.
Example: Break down threats by category and severity.
Spot Top Entities
Identify the most significant users, applications, locations, or assets in your environment.
Examples:
- Who are the top 10 affected users this week?
- Which apps generated the most incidents?
Compare Over Time
Use time-based comparisons to identify trends and changes in your security posture.
Examples:
- Compare incident volume this week vs. last week.
- Trend of traffic volume by application over the past 30 days.
Correlate Data Across Dimensions
Explore relationships between different entities to uncover hidden patterns.
Examples:
- Show top users by threat category and source IP.
- What are the most used high-risk applications by location?
Filter by Attributes
Add specific filters to focus on the most relevant data for your investigation.
Example: Show me threats from San Jose with severity high.
Look for Anomalies or Spikes
Ask for outliers or unusual changes that might indicate security issues.
Example: What unusual traffic patterns were observed today?