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Palo Alto Networks

Prisma Cloud

Composite Score

7.4 /10

CX Score

7.4 /10

23 Reviews Write a Review

What is Prisma Cloud?

By offering advanced data protection and consistency across clouds, Palo Alto Networks reins in the risks. Our products address your cloud access security broker, or CASB, needs and provide advanced capabilities in risk discovery, data loss prevention and advanced threat protection. Now, you can maintain compliance while preventing data leaks and business disruption through a fully cloud-delivered CASB deployment.

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Awards & Recognition

Prisma Cloud won the following awards in the Cloud Access Security Broker category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

4 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Conflict Resolution

2022

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022

5 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2022

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Conflict Resolution

2021

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021

2020 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2020

Prisma Cloud Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

92 Plan to Renew

76 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+83 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Prisma Cloud?

0% Negative

9% Neutral

91% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Enables Productivity
Security Protects
Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 79

Cloud Security Posture Management

Record Management

Policy Management

Analytics and Reporting

Zero Trust

Cloud Discovery

Threat Integration

Web Content Filtering

Inspect Data in Authorized App

User Behaviour Analytics

Encryption/Tokenization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Prisma Cloud Reviews

Sheryl B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Security throughout the lifecycle of a software

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Prisma Cloud from other similar products?

The scanning of containers, the health checks on the nodes and security concerns PANW, Palo Alto Networks, Microservices deployed within our company and even those developed for our clients are being monitored by Prisma Cloud to ensure their security. Although only one department makes use of this program, it keeps tabs on a variety of other programs being used throughout the company. Using it, the security architecture of the applications is being continuously improved.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Effortless and immediate— PANW, Palo Alto Networks, Real-time, lag-free monitoring of a multi-cloud environment is made possible by Prisma Cloud. All containers and images in all of your environments can be viewed through the radar in the tool. Radar provides a bird's eye view from 50,000 feet and identifies trouble spots. Kubernetes-based workloads can be easily deployed on a cluster of Kubernetes containers.

What do you dislike most about this product?

This necessitates constant upgrades, which adds to the overall maintenance costs. We'd appreciate it if you could provide real-time assistance. Currently, they use a third-party ticketing system, but real-time support could take its place, allowing users to receive assistance right away.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Must appear Prisma's DevSecOps features are available It's a good fit: The Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks could be a great option for monitoring applications that use micro-services architecture and are deployed in a multi-cloud environment.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Effective Service

Jamal H.

Role: Student Academic
Industry: Education
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2021

It was easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

What differentiates Prisma Cloud from other similar products?

better quality

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It is better to have more options for different industries

What do you dislike most about this product?

there was nothing

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I have no recommendation

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

How We Deliver

Prisma Cloud

What is Prisma Cloud?

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2020 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Prisma Cloud Ratings

85 Likeliness to Recommend

92 Plan to Renew

76 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

3 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+83 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Prisma Cloud?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Cloud Security Posture Management Provides functionality to extend security policies into Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) assets.

Record Management Includes ability for Data stewards to monitor data quality, taking action to determine the root cause of flagged issues and recommending remediation actions.

Policy Management Solution centralizes policies, standards, and procedures mapped to regulations or best-practices (PCI-DSS, ISO/IEC, HIPAA, etc.) with built-in templates.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Zero Trust Provides features that enable a zero trust architecture, including device authentication and user contextual risk based authentication.

Cloud Discovery Automated discovery of cloud usage across the environment and users.

Threat Integration Provides Endpoint protection through integration with anti-virus, anti-malware, UEBA and other security appliances.

Web Content Filtering Restrictive filtering of web surfing to limit exposure to harmful and inappropriate sites.

Inspect Data in Authorized App System can be deployed in an API mode to scan data at rest in cloud services and enforce policies across this data.

User Behaviour Analytics System can monitor and analyze user behavior to detect insider threats.

Encryption/Tokenization Ensures enterprise control on encryption keys, barring access to corporate data without the knowledge of the enterprise.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

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Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Prisma Cloud Reviews

Sheryl B.

Security throughout the lifecycle of a software

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Jamal H.

It was easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Cloud Security Posture Management

Record Management

Policy Management

Analytics and Reporting

Zero Trust

Cloud Discovery

Threat Integration

Web Content Filtering

Inspect Data in Authorized App

User Behaviour Analytics

Encryption/Tokenization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training