This document goes over how to configure Azure RBAC providing fine-grained access to Azure Resources and visibility in Prisma Cloud.   With Azure RBAC, you can create a role definition that outlines the permissions to be applied to Prisma Cloud app registrations. This article specifically addresses the application of Azure RBAC predefined roles to manage access to Azure resources.    Azure Resources offers two authorization systems such as Azure Role Based Access Control and an access policy model.    Azure RBAC has several built-in roles you can assign to service principals and managed identities.    Azure Resources authorized by access policy model  Azure Resources authorized by Azure RBAC (Recommended Authorization)   The Prisma Cloud role created for Azure ingestion with Terraform currently utilizes the access policy module, requiring the addition of permissions one at a time. Azure recommends leveraging role-based Azure RBAC, which enables configuring permissions for Prisma Cloud using pre-defined Azure roles containing a set of permissions. With Azure RBAC, any updates to the role's permissions automatically apply without the need for manual adjustments.

Prisma Cloud allows you to create policies to ensure that your Cloud Security Posture Management is in compliance with best practices and the needs of your organization.  These policies create alerts which need to be evaluated and also indicate which cloud objects need to be updated to be in compliance.    Managing these alerts is a task that many organizations find difficult as the number of alerts increases. Prisma Cloud allows you to define an auto-remediation to correct certain alerts.  However, oftentimes an organization requires much more customization and integration with other tools that they are using.    This article describes how to increase your alert automation and integrate with other tools by using a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform from Palo Alto Networks.

This guide describes how to configure agentless vulnerability and compliance scanning of virtual machines in Microsoft Azure subscriptions. This example uses Prisma Cloud Enterprise Edition (PCEE, Compute SaaS) which has a different configuration process from using the same feature in the Compute Edition (Self-Hosted). Additionally, we will be onboarding and scanning a single Azure subscription.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) refers to the processes and tools for managing user access to resources and enforcing security policies. IAM is crucial for securing the modern enterprise as it enables organizations to control who can access what resources. By enforcing strong IAM policies, companies can enforce the principle of least privilege, meaning users and resources are only granted minimum permissions necessary to perform their jobs. This minimizes the horizontal scaling of security attacks in the event of compromised credentials.    Prisma Cloud offers capabilities to embed IAM into the software delivery lifecycle. It can scan infrastructure-as-code for misconfigurations and enforce least privilege during deployment. Additionally, Prisma Cloud can monitor permissions at runtime and alert on anomalies that indicate privilege creep or excessive permissions. By leveraging the CIEM module within Prisma Cloud, organizations can confidently monitor access while minimizing risk.   This article will provide RQLs to create sample policies based on IAM requirements, as well as demonstrate how a simple IAM RQL can be continually extended to add additional IAM functionality. 

Visibility is a crucial part of cyber-security because “if you cannot see the asset, then you cannot protect it.” Prisma Cloud Workload protection has a RADARS section which helps visualize digital assets in a cloud environment.

Many teams are relying on automation to streamline their Security Operations Center. Automation allows customers to scale their operations as their cloud presence grows and allows the data from Prisma Cloud to be integrated with a customer’s existing workflow to manage Cloud security.  This API is also used by Cortex XSOAR playbooks for alert remediation and alert report generation.

A best practice in security is alerting on the assets that you find most critical. The concept of vulnerability and exploit defines that a vulnerability can be exploited.   

Introducing infrastructure as code scanning into your GitOps flow with Prisma Cloud Code Security.

To get the most out of your investment in Prisma™ Cloud, we need to add your cloud accounts to Prisma Cloud. This process requires that you have the correct permissions to authenticate and authorize the connection and retrieval of data.

How to Disable or enable default or custom policies