Palo Alto Networks teams with Google Cloud to provide secure access to applications

Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced a new partnership with Google LLC Cloud that combines BeyondCorp Enterprise from Google Cloud and Prisma Access from Palo Alto Networks to provide hybrid users with secure access to applications.

Built on the backbone of the Google Cloud network, the cloud-delivered Zero Trust Network Access 2.0 solution is said to enable users to work securely from anywhere, regardless of device type. Tapping into Prisma Access, customers gain access to ZTNA 2.0 security for all devices, branch offices and applications. With the inclusion of BeyondCorp Enterprise Essentials, users can secure access to applications and resources for unmanaged devices.

The pairing combines threat intelligence and machine learning that automatically detects and remediates threats to users, applications and enterprise data, powered by low-latency connections on Google Cloud. “Legacy VPN and ZTNA 1.0 solutions provide access to users that are too broad and lack continuous security inspection, putting cloud-first and hybrid organizations at risk,” explained Kumar Ramchandran, senior vice president of products at Palo Alto Networks.

Also announced today by Palo Alto Networks at its annual Ignite Conference in Las Vegas was Prisma Cloud Secrets Security. A cloud-native application protection platform, the solution taps into signature-based secrets detection, observing events and identifying patterns that match the signatures of known attacks, and an entropy model that measures the amount of uncertainty an attacker faces to determine the value of a secret.

Prisma Cloud now scans all files, including “infrastructure as code” and source files, to deliver a solution that offers full application lifecycle protection. The service does so by scanning for hardcoded in-code pre-commit, version control systems and continuous integration pipelines.

The service additionally alerts users to exposed secrets in cloud works and resources using built-in runtime policies. Key features include application programming interface risk profile for cloud-native applications that rely on APIs for communication.

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