What's New in the NetSec Platform
Strata Cloud Manager: Command Center
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Strata Cloud Manager: Command Center
Learn about how you can manage all aspects of your Palo Alto Networks cybersecurity
infrastructure with the new Strata Command Center
Network security administrators often struggle with fragmented visibility
across their security infrastructure, making it difficult to quickly assess overall
network health, identify emerging threats, and understand the impact of security
events on user experience. Traditional approaches require navigating between
multiple dashboards and tools to piece together a comprehensive view of security
posture.
The Strata Cloud Manager Command Center
serves as your new NetSec homepage and provides your first stop to assess the
health, security, and efficiency of your network. In a single view, the command
center shows you all users and IoT devices accessing the internet, SaaS
applications, and private apps, and demonstrates how Prisma® Access, your NGFWs, and
your security services protect them.
The command center provides you with four different views, each with its
own tracked data, metrics, and actionable insights that you can examine and interact
with:
- Summary: You get a high-level look at all your network and security infrastructure. You can monitor the traffic between your sources (users, IoT) and applications (private, SaaS), and see metrics from onboarded security subscriptions.
- Threats: You can dig deeper into anomalies on your network and block threats that impact your users. You can review the traffic inspected on your network and see how your Cloud-Delivered Security subscriptions detect and block threats around the clock.
- Operational Health: You can review incidents of degraded user experience on your network and see root-cause analysis of the issues along with remediation recommendations.
- Data Security: You can find high-risk sensitive data and update data profiles to further secure your network. You can review the sensitive data flow across your network and SaaS applications.
When the command center surfaces an issue through one of these views that
you should address or investigate (an anomaly, a security gap, a degraded user
experience, or something that impacts the security and health of your network), it
provides a path to where you can take actions to further secure your network.
Update:
The Operational Health view and User Device Experience widgets
in the Strata Cloud Manager Command Center now display
Fair metrics alongside the existing Good and Poor
performance indicators, providing you with more granular visibility into user
session quality and network performance degradation levels. This enhanced
categorization helps you better identify and address performance issues that fall
between optimal and severely degraded states, enabling more precise troubleshooting
and policy optimization decisions.
Update: App Security View
Strata Cloud Manager's Command Center now includes a comprehensive App
Security view, providing centralized visibility and control over
your application protection posture.
This new dashboard offers real-time insights into application security events,
threat detection, and policy enforcement across your entire infrastructure. Monitor
application-level attacks, track security policy effectiveness, and quickly identify
vulnerable applications requiring attention. The Application Security view
integrates seamlessly with the Command Center and provides recommendations for what
can be done to increase your security posture.