Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks Primary Use Case

MI
Associate Director at Cognizant

We could write a book about our use cases. It provides best-of-breed optimization in CASB and SASE together. Our primary use case is enabling users from all walks of life, and all over the planet, to have remote access in the most optimized way.

Prisma Access is a SASE-oriented solution, making it a hybrid and SaaS. Of course, it's built on Google's high-capacity backbone, but it is provider-neutral.

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TejasJain - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Cloud Security Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I recently worked on a huge project for a new entity of a major semiconductor company. We had a greenfield deployment where we were building everything from scratch. The primary use case was to build a solution that meets the following requirements:

  • Provides Zero Trust Network Access for all remote users.
  • Provides seamless performance.
  • Avoids all bottlenecks that the traditional VPN concentrators have with regards to being a single point of failure by putting the entire global traffic to a particular VPN concentrator. 

On the secondary front, we did a couple of integrations with Cisco Viptela. It is an SD-WAN solution for ensuring traffic optimization, traffic steering, branch-to-branch connectivity, and branch cloud connectivity. We had to ensure adequate performance and zero trust and have metrics and security compliance with all standard regulatory frameworks such as GDPR for the European region. This was a huge deployment with a budget of close to 2 million dollars.

The plugin version is 2.1.086 innovation, and the platform version is 2.1.

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AM
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I'm a cloud security architect, but I joined this project because one of my teammates left. My manager asked me to join because I have prior experience with Cisco Systems and Dell security. 

Our client has 40 sites, and they used other products called Peruit and PescUmbrella. My colleague was helping them remove the products from their laptops and replace them with Cortex XDR and Prisma Access. 

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Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks
March 2024
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RR
Network Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We have about 2,000 users, and everybody started working from home when COVID hit, so they needed to use Prisma Access to do their work securely. They told us that this was the best thing we'd ever used. Employees said Prisma was a lot better than Juniper and the previous mode access solution we had. 

We implemented it so that it's always on. A user doesn't need to do anything. It connects. Whether you're home or at the office, it cranks up, and you don't have to do anything.

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Hemant Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We propose solutions to customers. They face challenges in their existing setups like long troubleshooting durations, fault tolerances, security concerns, and management concerns. They had traditional setups, like Cisco routers, in their locations.

It took a long time to troubleshoot and resolve issues. The cost was a factor because they were using MPLS connections. MPLS is costly compared to the internet leased lines. Considering all these factors, we decided to go with Prisma's cloud solution.

It's a hybrid solution. We have a few sites on cloud and a few branch locations where the solution is deployed on-premises. The cloud provider is Azure.

We have more than 2,000 branches around the world. The solution is deployed across Europe and Asia. Between 7,000 and 9,000 ION boxes have been deployed. 

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TodorShuev - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We need global connectivity because we are a software company, and we have a lot of contractors around the globe. We are using Prisma Access for them to be able to connect from anywhere and have access to our data center, which is on-premises. It is not in the cloud.

We are using its latest version. It is always up to date. 

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Kepa-Ayerbe - PeerSpot reviewer
Connectivity Platform Cyber Security Specialist at BASF Business Services GmbH

We use the solution for client-based VPN remote access.

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Nikolay Dimitrov - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at Paysafe / IBM

During the COVID times, the firewalls that were the on-prem gateways couldn't handle SSL decryption and VPNs. After everyone started working from home, the company faced the issue of not having enough firewalls for gateway and SSL decryption services. That's why we started using Prisma Access.

I used version 2.2 while working last with it two or three months ago. In terms of deployment, it was a Prisma Access hybrid solution with Panorama where we had firewalls and Prisma Access. It was not cloud-native Prisma Access with only cloud-based aspects.

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Gur Sannikov - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical program manager at Intel Corporation

We use the solution for VPN connection for remote work.

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JM
Sr systems eng at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use Prisma Access to build an allowlist that we put into Socks App, so we can gate access to what we want based on whether someone is allowed onto the VPN. Prisma is a SaaS product. We have the cloud-managed version that we use to access a mixture of on-prem, public cloud, and SaaS tools. 

We aren't using it extensively. There are only around six rules. I've had five hundred or a thousand rules in previous companies that used Palo Alto Networks. We have six, so we're not using the solution extensively. We're looking at various products for DNS filtering and security, so we will potentially get rid of Prisma Access in the future. It's a heavy-handed way of doing what we're trying to do.

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Gabriel Franco - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Service Delivery Engineer at Netdata Innovation Center

Prisma Access is useful for organizations with hardware and firewalls that don't support their total number of users for remote working. If they need to increase this quantity, instead of increasing the hardware, they can use a solution as a firewall service.

A maximum of 200 people use this solution. We don't utilize all of the solution's capabilities.

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Alikhayyam Guluzada - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Security Officer at Prosol LLC

We use this solution for container security. We use it in an environment with 200 developers.

We use its latest version and the version prior to the latest one.

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Alex Kisakye - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevSecOps Engineer at Sympli Australia Pty

We use Prisma Compute for container monitoring and Prisma Cloud for cloud monitoring. Compute looks at workload security, and we use it for container security, build security, and assessments. Cloud looks at our AWS account and gives us input on any security issues with our AWS workload.

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Gabriel Franco - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Service Delivery Engineer at Netdata Innovation Center

We are a partner of Palo Alto. We focus on healthcare customers, and we help them onboard and manage different Palo Alto solutions, including Prisma SaaS.

It gives you visibility and an understanding of what you have in your environment. A couple of years ago, all the information that you had in your SaaS environment was kind of a black box. You didn't have any information about what you or your employees had there. So, visibility is one use case, and another very important use case is the ability to review the way the files and information are shared. You can see if a confidential file is being shared. Having this information and awareness is important for the administrators of Office 365 and other environments so that they can make corrections.

With the use of the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) module, the scanning process scans all the files that you have in there and classifies them through the DLP engine. So, when you get your results, you would have files with the matching results, such as with credit card numbers or phone numbers. There are also data profiles or policies, such as PCI, PII, or GDPR compliance. Palo Alto is working on adding more profiles, such as HIPAA, based on different compliance standards in the industry.

It is a SaaS solution, and we are using its most recent version.

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RM
Senior Network Security Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Prisma Access is a solution for remote and mobile users. Following the pandemic, many employees now work from home, meaning many companies have extended remote locations. We use the product to secure the networks of our remote and mobile users, so they can safely access our company's intranet and network.

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Burak Dartar - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Unit Manager at a university with 11-50 employees

In my first company, we encountered some problems with endpoints because we had colleagues working out of country and we didn't know what happened to their clients. We used Prisma Access for information regarding the client status and the client programs because it can check and control client operations.

In that company, before Prisma Access, we used public access and we encountered many attacks from outside. Our DevOps and software engineers always connected from outside. When I came to that company I changed things, but without Prisma Access but it was very difficult. I had to do IAM per user. But when we integrated Prisma Access we could grant access by integrating the identity storage. I could grant access very quickly and see the behavior of my developers and software engineers. Sometimes they would come with new requests and Prisma Access provided quick policy deployment.

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PD
Global Network Tech Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We use Prisma Access, not only for our remote users, in a distributed workforce, but for our offices as well. Right now, because of COVID, there is a very limited footprint on the office side of it. But we would like to cover our offices so that when people are working in them and trying to access resources, whether those resources are hosted on public cloud, private cloud, in data centers, or on-prem, Prisma Access is involved.

Prisma Access is completely hosted on Google Cloud Platform. Palo Alto Panorama, which is the centralized management tool, is also hosted on a public cloud environment. So the entire solution lies in the cloud.

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MR
Senior Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

We use it to monitor our cloud environments to get a real-time inventory of what's being stood up, what's being torn down, vulnerability management, risk management, and all of our cloud resources across all AWS, Azure, and GCP.

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AH
Senior Manager Network Design at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I use Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks in our company for remote access, especially to help new users connect to corporate resources from over a distance, in other countries, or while they are not in the office.

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AC
General manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We use Prisma Access to enhance security control on endpoints in a hybrid workplace. Everyone in my company uses Prisma. It's about 500 users.

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VG
Team lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Our use case started with the pandemic. Before the pandemic, our users worked in our office, but when the pandemic started our users were at home. They wanted to have the same kind of access that they had on-premises. We deployed a network and mobile services for them so that they could have the same experience sitting at home and access all the infra in the office. We use mobile access to connect to Prisma Access, and from Prisma Access we built a site-to-site VPN to connect to the office network so that they would have the same kind of access.

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MY
Senior Network Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We're migrating customers from existing Cisco AnyConnect VPN to Prisma Access GlobalProtect VPN.

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FS
Global Leader Network Engineering at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Prisma Access GlobalProtect is our always-on VPN. We use it for URL filtering, to make sure people don't go to websites that are not permissible according to our security policy, such as gambling and pornography sites. We also implement Data Loss Prevention and decrypt the packets so that we can analyze the inside and make sure that nobody is trying to exfiltrate data. It's always on and it doesn't matter if you're in an office or at home or in a coffee shop or a hotel. 

We also use their service connections to access our internal services through them.

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TT
Senior Network / ITOps Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 201-500 employees

We are a small team of ITOps Engineers. With Prisma, we can manage all our Edge Network Infrastructure (Mobile Users, Remote Networks, and Data Centers) in one location.

We also decommissioned our  legacy MPLS connections and moved to VPN. If we need to expand to more offices, different countries, and different regions, it would be much simpler to do it with Prisma Access because the only things required are an internet connection and a pair of firewalls. 

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SG
Professional Services Consultant at Infinity Labs India

The use case for our clients is that they have branch office locations all over the world. Users can connect over the internet and inspection of their traffic will happen on the Prisma infrastructure. Remote users can also connect to the VPN through Prisma infrastructure, and they can connect their data center with the Prisma infrastructure as well.

It's a cloud solution from Palo Alto Networks. Customers just need to establish an IPSec tunnel from their on-prem device with Palo Alto's closest location, which they have all over the world—100-plus locations.

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VS
Works

We are using Prisma SaaS for products. We use many content-based platforms and we were using this product to perform policy detection. If someone is sharing something publicly, externally, from our domain, which is risky. This product allows you to write policies, and those policies will detect content, which captures them in the policy category or in the criteria. You then can add remediation action for protection.

We deploy the solution using their infrastructure and we connected that solution with our applications.

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PD
Sr. Security Analyst at Atos

We use the solution to secure and monitor our traffic to the cloud. We are able to route traffic where we need it to go and It provides us with secure direct connectivity to our cloud application console.

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GA
Endpoint Security Manager at Catholic Health Initiatives

We primarily use the solution for mobile users and mainly mobile laptops. In some cases, we use the solution for cloud tenant portals in Azure. We use it to connect those back into the network.

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TA
Network Administrator Specialist at a government with 501-1,000 employees

One of our use cases is that it is used by our internal users, our employees, when they need to work remotely. They'll be out in the field and, wherever they have an internet connection, they run the GlobalProtect client, connect, and they can access our resources as if they're in our building. For example, we have health inspectors who go to different sites.

Of course, we're doing more teleworking like everyone right now. Also, our admins all use it because that's how we get in and do remote work. And, periodically, we have contractors or vendors who need remote access. We'll build an account in AD and either have them download the client and connect to us, or if they currently use the GlobalProtect client for some other VPN connection, we can just provide our gateway and they can use their existing client to connect to the resources that we allow them.

We also have a clientless VPN by Palo Alto. It's a website where you can enter your AD credentials, and it will publish internal web apps that you can access through a browser. We have some users, and a set of contractors, who use that to access some of our internal systems for COVID response.

It's a cloud-based VPN, but it's managed from our Panorama instance, which is on-site. There's the GlobalProtect client that gets installed, that's the VPN client on your laptop, and that automatically updates from the cloud when a new version is available.

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CJ
Chief Executive Officer at Clemtech LLC

My customers are military and federal government agencies. They're really interested in Secure Access Service Edge technology for their endpoints. Palo Alto Prisma is one of the solutions we use to make the SASE solution work for endpoints. For our customers, we normally do SD-WAN, Zero Trust, SWG, and SWaaS. Nobody has really asked for ADEM yet.

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NP
Senior Network Security Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

One of the main advantages we have found of Prisma Access is that it has gateways across multiple continents. Due to that, many users can connect from different parts of the world will be able to access everything very fast. Also, internet access through VPN has become much simpler in getting the traffic to our on-prem data center.

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DB
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

In this pandemic, users want to work remotely and that means we need centralized control of remote users, our branch offices, and the head office. Prisma Access collects everything together and provides us with centralized management, enabling us to manage all our locations and users globally.

It manages on-premises networks, but it has its own infra in the cloud.

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LS
Solution Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use the solution in my company for our remote workers and branch access.

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AD
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

As a Palo Alto provider, their Platform as a Service (PaaS) for their Prisma Cloud-Native product, is offered as a hosted or Software as a Service (SaaS) version. As a user their product should scan and manage cloud container images to identify vulnerabilities. It's a key feature for identifying CI/CD development issues for remediation. 

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PG
Senior Executive at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are a solution provider and we have implemented Prism Cloud for a couple of clients.

Our clients use this product for their container security.

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BY
Manager Network Engineering at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use it for remote access VPN. When our users are working remotely, from home, they can use it to connect to our IT environment.

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JJ
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We are basically using it for cloud governance. We have AWS as our public cloud service, and we have multiple cloud accounts that we manage. We're using Prisma SaaS for the cloud governance of these accounts. 

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GA
Information Technology Consultant at Trillennium (Pvt) Ltd

We are a solution provider and we work with our customers to provide them with cloud-based solutions. One of the categories we provide is in the security-related space, and Prisma SaaS is one that we are promoting.

One of the primary use cases is to create a more secure tunnel between home and office, allowing people to more securely work remotely from home.

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GV
Architect - Cloud Serviced at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

This is a CASB product that we use to protect data that is in the cloud. We work with our client to protect them from unknown threats, as well as known threats such as the inadvertent sharing of files. An example of this is the uploading of a file by an admin that contains sensitive data that was not intended to be shared with anyone who is external to the organization, such as a Gmail address. This solution offers protection from these kinds of problems.

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SV
Solution Architect // Network Consultant at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

My clients used Prisma Access essentially for security in the cloud. We integrated their SD-WAN into Prisma Access.

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AA
Senior Security Architecture Specialist at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We are a system integrator and Prisma Access is one of the security products that we implement for our clients. We handle all products, from high-level to low-level, and we propose an end-to-end solution for each customer. I am a pre-sales architect and engineer.

Prisma Access is the name of the GlobalProtect Cloud Service.

Normally, it is sold to users who want to use a VPN agent.

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RR
Network Engineer at Acliv Technologies Pvt Ltd

We use this solution to secure the network. We block unwanted traffic.

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PT
Consultant at a political organization with 201-500 employees

We primarily use the solution for firewall technologies.

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JM
Senior Director at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

The company I work for mainly uses Palo Alto Networks Prisma SaaS to secure our network.

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KF
Lead Security Engineer at ESKA

I am an integrator. Prisma SaaS is the most preferred solution among our customers — my customers really like it. Currently, I have three customers that are using this solution. 

Many of my customers work in the financial sector. Prisma SaaS is a top-choice solution for customers who are looking for more flexibility and secure edge points. Prisma Saas has taken big steps to please its customers. It's a cloud-based solution and cloud security is at the edge of the market. The Coronavirus and the pandemic pushed the market to the cloud.

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DS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

This solution helps us with visibility of the data stored in the cloud and it even scans our files. If a user is trying to upload any kind of malware file or a script, Prisma SaaS scans those files and helps us identify anything malicious. If it finds something, it directly cleans the file. We are partners with Prisma SaaS.

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PS
General Manager - CyberSecurity Practice at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are a services organization at the diagnostic stage. We generally see what matches the customer's requirements.

The primary use case of this solution mostly serves as remote access to the applications, and the secure access of applications both for the cloud and for their private data centers.

They are mainly using the zero-trust platform, which is very commonly used right now.

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MM
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Most of our customers here in Egypt are looking for how to manage their boxes in simple ways. They want good performance as well.

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EW
Head of Pre-Sales at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use it to securely access cloud data centers or cloud platforms. If a customer has a lot of workload in the cloud, then from the Prisma Access cloud, they can create secure access to all cloud platforms.

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EW
Head of Pre-Sales at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Prisma SaaS can be used to secure sanction applications that people use on enterprises. You can integrate the solution using ATI to sanction applications such as Office 365, Google, and Salesforce. You can apply controls to protect from data leakage and then apply cloud-based DLP policies.

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Buyer's Guide
Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.