Prisma Cloud collects data about cloud resources in your cloud accounts and allows extracting information about those cloud resources such that answers to common security questions can be answered, such as show me ec2 volumes that are not encrypted.   These queries are written in Resource Query Language (RQL), and can be debugged and run on the Investigate page in Prisma Cloud.

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.   

The Prisma Cloud product from Palo Alto Networks has a number of threat landscape views along with preventative tools to help mitigate the risks of a vulnerability, including zero-day vulnerabilities.   We will examine how Prisma Cloud can notify you of a CVE, what API calls can be used to find the resources affected by a CVE, and how to create a custom CVE to support zero-day vulnerabilities. This article will demonstrate how you as a security professional can get a better understanding around the threat landscape of your environment.  For purposes of example, we will use Log4J as our zero-day threat in this article.

Throughout the security lifecycle of an application or cloud environment it is important to be able to understand the tools available to each security professional. One of the best tools for any security professional to be able to use is scripting. Scripting allows one to create a program that automates an individual task and, when coupled with the Prisma Cloud Compute Workload Protection Platform (CWPP), you can effectively complete your use cases with ease. All that it takes to create a script is an understanding of the tools available to you, practice, and studying the available documentation of API calls that can interface with your scripting program.    Through the CWPP API and this article, you will be able to begin to establish a new way to be able to solve your company’s problems while enhancing your available tools in problem solving. In this article, we are utilizing a SaaS CWPP console for the examples and a text editor which can save text files for scripting along with a linux command line available in MacOS terminal or in Windows with Subsystem for Linux.    When interacting with a command line, you can type directly into the command prompt. As an example, to help those of you who have not yet worked with a Linux command line, you can navigate to different directories using the “cd” or ‘current directory’ command. You can determine the path to your current directory by typing “pwd,” or ‘print working directory’, and you can list the files in the current directory using “ls”.