Strata Cloud Manager
Introducing Strata Cloud Manager
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Introducing Strata Cloud Manager
Palo Alto Networks Strata Cloud Manager is a Network Security platform that
provides unified management for Prisma Access and NGFWs, ensuring consistent policy
enforcement and AIOps-powered security.
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Each of these licenses include access to Strata Cloud
Manager:
→ The features and capabilities available to you in Strata Cloud Manager depend on which license(s) you are
using.
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Palo Alto Networks Strata Cloud Manager empowers you with AI-powered, unified management
and operations for your entire network security deployment. With Strata Cloud Manager
you can easily manage your entire Palo Alto Networks Network Security infrastructure –
your NGFWs and SASE environment – from a single, streamlined user interface. Gain
comprehensive visibility into users, branch sites, applications, and threats across all
network security enforcement points; this gives you actionable insights, better
security, and easy troubleshooting and problem resolution.
- Predict and Prevent Network DisruptionsStrata Cloud Manager predicts and prevents network disruptions and quickly remediates issues, so that you and your users can continue day-to-day business and stay productive.
- Strengthen Security with Real-Time Best PracticesStrata Cloud Manager identifies vital and underused security capabilities, and guides you to enable them based on the best practices that align with your needs. Strengthen your security posture with built-in best practices, and inline remediation features powered by AIOps.
- Simple and Consistent Network Security Management and Operations Strata Cloud Manager consolidates your security tools for improved operation and insights, so that you can adopt a simple and consistent management experience for your entire network security stack.
How Strata Cloud Manager Strengthens Security
Maximize usage of security capabilities
- See the security features you're using, and identify gaps in adoption of security features you could be leveraging. → Feature Adoption
- See adoption rates for your security services subscriptions. → CDSS Adoption
- See how your security features adhere to best practices, or where you can make improvements to strengthen your security posture.→ Built-In Best Practices
Strengthen and optimize existing configuration
Clean up and streamline your security policy based on usage data and auto-generated
recommendations.
- Clean up objects that aren't referenced in policy, and rules without any traffic hits; these objects and rules can clog up performance and complicate policy management. → Config Clean-Up
- Rules that are too broad introduce security gaps because they allow applications that aren’t in use in your network. Policy optimizer enables you to convert these overly permissive rules to more specific, focused rules that only allow the applications you’re actually using. → Policy Optimizer
Real time guidance for secure configuration
- Best practice guard rails provide live validation that your security policy rules are compliant with best practices. → Live, Inline Best Practice Configuration Checks
How Strata Cloud Manager Predicts and Prevents Network Disruptions
Comprehensive Observability
- Know how your network is being kept safe by security infrastructure. → Command Center
- Know the health and performance of users, branch sites, applications, and IT infrastructure, froma single dashboard. → SASE Health dashboard
- Know the health and performance of devices from a single dashboard. → Device Health dashboard
Forecast health and remediate disruptions
Automatic forecasts prevent potential disruptions; when issues are detected,
actionable insights expedite resolutions.
- Review machine assisted predictions of imminent outages, with recommendations for remediation steps. → Forecasting and Anomaly Detection
- Reduce time to resolution with probable cause analysis. → View Probable Causes
Plan for evolving security needs
- Improve stability by proactively identifying potential capacity. → Capacity Analyzer
How Strata Cloud Manager Works Everywhere Consistently
Consistent configuration
Apply consistent policies across all enforcement points with streamlined processes,
and eliminate the need to make individual changes for NGFWs and SASE deployments.
- Set up and onboard NGFWs and Prisma Access mobile users and remote networks, and plan software upgrades for NGFWs. → Workflows in Strata Cloud Manager
- Configure a security policy that is shared across your NGFWs and Prisma Access. → Shared management for NGFW and Prisma Access
Flexible configuration organization
Simplify configuration management at scale with easy folder and device management
workflows.
- Apply configuration settings and enforce policy globally across your entire environment, or target settings and policy to certain parts of your organization. → Configuration Scope
- Logically group your firewalls or deployment types (Prisma Access mobile users, remote networks, or service connections) for simplified configuration management. → Folder Management
- Group configurations that you can quickly push to your firewalls or deployments. → Snippets
- You have the flexibility to accommodate unique configuration values that are device or deployment specific. → Variables
Achieve unified visibility into threats
- Get comprehensive visibility across your network traffic, subscriptions, users, applications, networks, threats, and more. → Monitoring
- Get an interactive view of the applications, ION devices, threats, users, and security subscriptions at work in your network. The dashboards provide visibility into the health, security posture, and activity happening in your deployment that helps you to prevent or address performance and security gaps in your network. → Dashboards
- Get reports on the network traffic patterns, bandwidth utilization, your security subscription data and more. Reports provide actionable insight into your network that you can use for planning and monitoring purposes. → Reports