While immediate automated remediation might be tempting, it carries a high risk of disrupting a production service. Prisma Cloud’s integrated workflow tools are designed for this scenario, allowing security to formally track and assign the issue to the correct team (like DevOps or App owners) with proper context and priority, ensuring accountability and minimizing business impact while the risk is being addressed. Simply suppressing or only adding compensating controls does not actively drive the necessary configuration change.

Prisma Cloud’s built-in compliance standards (like CIS, PCI DSS, NIST) are pre-packaged with a defined set of security policies that map directly to known regulatory or framework requirements. Custom compliance standards are used to tailor compliance monitoring to an organization’s specific internal policies, contractual obligations, or unique risk posture by selecting and grouping any available Prisma Cloud policy rules into a new framework.

The CI/CD Security (Shift Left) feature integrates Prisma Cloud into the development pipeline (e.g., with Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins). It scans infrastructure-as-code templates before deployment, catching policy violations like missing tags early in the development cycle. This prevents non-compliant resources from being provisioned in the first place, which is more efficient than detecting and remediating them after deployment.

For Defenders deployed with access keys, rotation involves generating a new key pair in the Prisma Cloud console, then updating the corresponding environment variables (e.g., `PC_ACCESS_KEY`, `PC_SECRET_KEY`) on the host where the Defender container runs. After updating the env vars, a restart of the Defender container is required for it to pick up the new credentials and maintain continuous reporting.

The most scalable and maintainable approach is to refine the policy logic using resource attributes (like tags). By adding a condition such as ‘AND Tag NOT EQUALS Public-Website’, the policy will intelligently exclude the specific category of buckets for which the lack of logging is an approved exception. This preserves the security coverage for all other buckets while eliminating noise. Creating individual exceptions or lowering severity doesn’t scale, and disabling the policy removes necessary security coverage.

The Audit Logs, specifically the Event Timeline view within Prisma Cloud, aggregates and normalizes cloud audit trails (like AWS CloudTrail). It allows you to filter events by user identity, time range, event type, and resource to precisely trace the sequence of API actions performed. This is the primary tool for forensic investigation and understanding user activity.

In a managed Kubernetes service, the cloud provider secures the control plane. Prisma Cloud’s value lies in securing the customer’s responsibility: the worker nodes, the container runtime (e.g., Docker, containerd), and the workloads running on them. It provides vulnerability scanning for container images, compliance checks for node configurations (like CIS benchmarks), and runtime defense for containers, filling the gap in the customer’s share of the responsibility model.

Prisma Cloud’s CI/CD Security (Shift Left) integration offers plugins (e.g., for Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) that scan code and Infrastructure-as-Code templates at the pull/merge request stage. It can be configured to detect hard-coded secrets and break the build, providing immediate feedback to developers and preventing secrets from ever entering the codebase. This is the most direct and automated enforcement method.

Risk Prioritization uses contextual intelligence (like Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence) to go beyond base CVSS scores. It factors in exploit availability (is it weaponized?) and cloud context (is the vulnerable resource exposed?). A vulnerability with a known exploit in an internet-facing resource represents a clear and immediate danger, warranting a significantly higher risk score and priority for remediation.

While immediate automated remediation might be tempting, it carries a high risk of disrupting a production service. Prisma Cloud’s integrated workflow tools are designed for this scenario, allowing security to formally track and assign the issue to the correct team (like DevOps or App owners) with proper context and priority, ensuring accountability and minimizing business impact while the risk is being addressed. Simply suppressing or only adding compensating controls does not actively drive the necessary configuration change.0