Security News > 2021 > April > Prisma Cloud can now automatically protect cloud workloads and containers
Palo Alto Networks has announced a series of updates coming to its Prisma Cloud platform that the company said automatically protects cloud-hosted virtual machines and can "Increase automation and detection, simplify compliance checks and deepen visibility into malware threats for containers and hosts." Prisma Cloud is a cloud-native security platform designed to protect cloud infrastructure and cloud-native applications.
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud SVP for product Varun Badhwar described the new features as a way to help businesses streamline and automate the security of their cloud-native products.
Five specific new features were mentioned by Palo Alto Networks in a press release announcing the update, all of which are available now in Prisma Cloud Compute Edition and will be generally available in Prisma Cloud Enterprise Edition by late May. One of the features sure to please businesses running multiple cloud virtual machines is the auto-detection and auto-protection capabilities being added to Prisma Cloud.
The new feature will automatically detect VMs running on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and if it sees they're unprotected will automatically deploy Prisma Cloud Defender, Prisma's policy enforcement software, on vulnerable machines.
Prisma Cloud is also getting Palo Alto Networks' WildFire malware analytics service, which the company said is designed to protect hosts and containers from malware during runtime and CI/CD scenarios.
Prisma Cloud Compliance Explorer, which currently supports six different compliance frameworks, is adding CIS benchmarks along with getting a new UI designed to implement the U.S. Department of Defense's Docker Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guide configuration guidelines.