Palo Alto Networks recently announced Prisma Cloud Supply Chain Security to provide a complete view of where potential vulnerabilities or misconfigurations exist in the software supply chain — allowing organizations to quickly trace to the source and fix them.
If not quickly fixed or, better yet, avoided during coding, these security flaws could allow attackers to infiltrate systems, spread malicious payloads throughout an organization’s software and access sensitive data.
Many current solutions only provide vulnerability and misconfiguration information at a resource layer in code or in the cloud. With Supply Chain Security, Prisma Cloud, already a leader in cloud native security and the most complete Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), provides not only full lifecycle visibility and protection but the context of where a vulnerability fits into the layers of a cloud architecture.
Prisma Cloud Supply Chain Security helps provide a full stack, full lifecycle approach to securing the interconnected components that make up and deliver cloud native applications. It can help to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in code, including open source packages, infrastructure as code (IaC) files and delivery pipelines, such as version control system (VCS) and CI pipeline configurations. It includes the following features:
With these features, organizations can better assess the attack surface of their delivery pipelines and all connected application and infrastructure resources to be better equipped to help prevent supply chain attacks. Implementing Prisma Cloud supply chain security as part of a Zero Trust architecture is one of the best ways an organization can prevent software supply chain attacks.
Ankur Shah, senior vice president, Prisma Cloud products, Palo Alto Networks
Prisma Cloud is designed to help protect organizations from code to cloud; and now that customers can visualize their software supply chain, it’s easier to spot, prioritize, and remediate security weaknesses at the onset of development and during delivery pipelines.
Melinda Marks; ESG Senior Analyst, Application and Cloud Security
A thriving community creating a vast array of open-source software helps developers accelerate their coding and product delivery, but it increases the attack surface if you can’t make sure the code is secure. The new enhancements in Prisma Cloud allow DevOps and security teams to fully understand their software supply chains so they can identify and remediate coding flaws to secure their cloud native applications.
