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.
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.
Learn what your peers think about Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
System Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
2023-05-04T08:08:00Z
May 4, 2023
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Senior Service Delivery Engineer at Netdata Innovation Center
Real User
Top 5
2022-10-12T03:01:00Z
Oct 12, 2022
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.
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-12-21T12:40:00Z
Dec 21, 2021
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.
Professional Services Consultant at Infinity Labs India
Real User
Top 10
2021-12-15T20:27:00Z
Dec 15, 2021
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.
Sr. Cloud Security Architect at tejain@deloitte.com
Reseller
Top 5
2021-12-05T23:23:00Z
Dec 5, 2021
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.
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.
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.
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.
Senior Network Security Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-03-29T19:07:59Z
Mar 29, 2021
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.
Head of Pre-Sales at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2020-12-30T14:20:10Z
Dec 30, 2020
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.
Endpoint Security Manager at Catholic Health Initiatives
Real User
2020-10-06T06:57:36Z
Oct 6, 2020
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.
Senior Security Architecture Specialist at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Reseller
2020-09-27T04:10:13Z
Sep 27, 2020
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.
General Manager - CyberSecurity Practice at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-06-25T10:49:26Z
Jun 25, 2020
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.
Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks provides consistent security for all users and applications across your remote networks. Prisma Access grants users safe access to the cloud and data center applications and the internet as well. In addition, the solution combines all of your security and networking capabilities into a single cloud-delivered platform, enabling flexible hybrid workforces.
Prisma Access can be managed two ways:
Cloud Managed
Panorama Managed
Prisma Access delivers both...
We use the solution for client-based VPN remote access.
I use the solution in my company for our remote workers and branch access.
We use the solution for VPN connection for remote work.
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.
My clients used Prisma Access essentially for security in the cloud. We integrated their SD-WAN into Prisma Access.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We primarily use the solution for firewall technologies.
Most of our customers here in Egypt are looking for how to manage their boxes in simple ways. They want good performance as well.