Prisma Cloud

Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that secures applications across the full lifecycle from code through infrastructure to runtime. Unifies what traditionally required separate tools, spanning Cloud Security Posture Management, workload protection, application security, and threat detection in a single platform.

Part of Palo Alto Networks, Prisma Cloud supports major cloud providers, including AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud, plus Kubernetes, Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, and HashiCorp tooling. Stands out by covering code-to-cloud in one platform rather than stitching together CSPM, CWPP, and application security tools. The platform relies on open-source tooling such as Checkov for infrastructure-as-code scanning, which integrates into CI/CD pipelines.

Key capabilities:

• IaC scanning and secrets detection for Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and Dockerfiles
• Cloud Security Posture Management with compliance reporting and misconfiguration detection across multicloud
• Workload protection for containers, Kubernetes, serverless, and VMs with agent-based and agentless options
• Vulnerability management with contextual prioritization to reduce alert fatigue
• Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management for least-privilege access
• Web application and API security with runtime threat detection

Security teams use Prisma Cloud to enforce shift-left practices in pipelines, manage posture across hybrid and multicloud environments, and detect threats at runtime. Developers integrate Checkov, the Prisma Cloud GitHub Action, and CI/CD plugins to scan images and IaC before deployment.