Introducing Compliance Center: A Unified Approach to Regulatory and Security Compliance

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As organizations accelerate their digital transformation, the complexity of maintaining regulatory compliance and security best practices has grown exponentially. Security teams often find themselves navigating disjointed dashboards, wrestling with manual spreadsheets, and struggling to get a clear picture of their compliance posture across a dispersed network security environment.

Today, we are proud to announce that Compliance Center is now available, offering a centralized, streamlined solution to these challenges.

The Compliance Center Dashboard

 

The Compliance Challenge

For many NetSec administrators, understanding compliance with required regulatory standards or security frameworks has been a fragmented experience. Typically, this involves toggling between multiple dashboards or relying on third-party tools to piece together a view of their environment. This disconnected approach not only increases operational complexity but also leads to "audit fatigue," where teams must divert significant time and resources away from regular operations to prepare for assessments.

What is Compliance Center?

Compliance Center is a new, unified dashboard designed to provide a comprehensive view of your regulatory compliance across your Palo Alto Networks deployment. It automatically assesses your specific configurations against industry standards and security frameworks, allowing you to quickly understand where your organization stands in its journey toward security maturity.

By integrating compliance directly into the platform, Compliance Center enables you to:

• Visualize Compliance: Get a single, up-leveled view of your adherence to standards across your entire deployment.
• Streamline Audits: Produce customizable and exportable reports to demonstrate compliance to auditors and stakeholders.
• Close the Gap: Easily identify which controls and specific configurations need remediation to improve your security posture.

Key Capabilities

1. Comprehensive Framework Support Compliance Center ships today with support for five major security and regulatory frameworks to help you hit the ground running:
   
   • CRI Profile 2.1
   • NIST CSF 2.0
   • NIST 800-53
   • CIS CSC v8.1
   • PCI-DSS v4.0.1

We are committed to continuously expanding this library to support many other frameworks in the near future.

2. Fully Customizable Frameworks We understand that every organization has unique needs. Compliance Center is fully customizable, allowing you to clone and modify existing frameworks or build entirely new ones from scratch. You can align specific controls with new or existing security checks to match your internal standards, all without needing engineering support.
   
3. API-Driven Continuous Monitoring To support modern Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) strategies, Compliance Center features a robust API. This allows you to integrate compliance data directly into your existing GRC tools, enabling continuous control monitoring and automated evidence collection. You can programmatically filter by scope, framework, or control to extract the exact data needed for your compliance reporting.
   
4. Expanding Coverage Currently, Compliance Center covers configuration assessments for Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) and Prisma Access SASE. We plan to expand support to the rest of the Palo Alto Networks Strata Network Security portfolio, eventually incorporating Cortex and other platform components to provide a truly unified view of regulatory compliance across your entire Palo Alto Networks security infrastructure.
   

Start Your Journey to Better Compliance

Compliance Center is designed to turn compliance from a periodic headache into a continuous, manageable process. By unifying your view, simplifying reporting, and enabling deep customization, we empower your team to focus on what matters most: securing your organization.

Compliance Center is available in Strata Cloud Manager now. Log in to see how your current configuration measures up against the industry's most critical standards.