Prisma Cloud—First Look

When you Access Prisma Cloud, you first see the Home page.

This page provides instant access to the critical issues, latest information, and recommendations for next steps. Your role on Prisma Cloud and the permissions determine whether you can view all the widgets and actions that are accessible here. As a System Admin, you can use this page as a launch pad to:

• See the latest summary of what happened in the last 24 hours.

• Identify where to resume on your operationalization journey. You have a central context to:

  • Review the recommended workflows.

  • Get started with connecting the providers - repositories, registries and cloud accounts - to scan artifacts and secure resources that are used and deployed through your code to cloud journey.

  • Take the next steps in adopting the suite of security capabilities from the Adoption Advisor Stay informed on what’s new on Prisma Cloud with easy access to the release information and cloud security blogs from Unit 42.

• You can then use the following tabs to interact with the data and visualize the traffic flow and connection details to and from the different resources in your cloud deployment; review the default policy rules and compliance standards; and explore how the web interface is organized to help you and your security and DevSecOps teams to monitor cloud resources.

  Access to the pages and the operations on each page are based on your role and permissions.

  • Dashboard—Review the overall state of the top assets and alerts across the assets monitored by Prisma Cloud.

  • Inventory—Get a graphical view of the health cloud (security and compliance posture) of your assets deployed across multiple public cloud environments.

  • Investigate—Identify security threats and vulnerabilities, create and save investigative queries, and analyze impacted resources.

  • Policies—Configure policies to maintain compliance and security.

• Compliance—Monitor your cloud accounts against compliance standards (such as NIST, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, ISO 27001:2013), create custom policies, and generate reports for offline viewing.

  • Alerts—View the list of discovered violations and anomalies, drill in to the details and look up remediation options, and create alert rules and notification templates.

  • Compute—Deploy the Prisma Cloud Defender in hosts, containers, and serverless environments to identify vulnerabilities, detect anomalous behavior, and provide least privilege micro-segmentation and runtime defense across the entire application lifecycle from CICD to runtime. You can deploy Prisma Cloud Defenders on heterogeneous environments, including Windows, Linux, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP Cloud Functions, and more. Defenders can create IP table rules on the host to observe network traffic and to enforce both CNNS and WAAS firewall policies. For details see the Prisma Cloud Administrator’s Guide (Compute) .

  • Code—Continuously assess the security posture of code repositories and review the policy violations across the monitored environments. If you have enabled the Cloud Application Security module, use the Code page to find and fix or suppress security issues in code. For details see the Prisma Cloud Application Security Administrator’s Guide .

• Settings—Add new cloud accounts and set up Prisma Cloud administrative users. You can also set up account groups, create users, associate roles and permissions, add external integrations including SAML integration (SSO), view audit logs, add trusted IP addresses, view license and usage reporting, and modify the browser session timeout.

• Alarms—Alarms notify you about system-level issues and errors related to external integrations and onboarded Cloud Accounts. When enabled, alarms are notifications about the system failures on Prisma Cloud and are not related to alerts.

• Subscription—Review the license status of your subscription and enable any add-on features that are available to you.

• Adoption Advisor—Get visibility into your adoption journey, and use the guided walkthroughs to unlock additional security features on Prisma Cloud.

• Profile—Maintain your profile, view the Prisma Cloud roles that you are allocated and switch across the roles, and change the UI display language.