Technology Magazine September 2022 | Page 105

CLOUD AND CYBER

“ Companies no longer have to decide between application security and performance ”

ANKUR SHAH SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT , PRISMA CLOUD , PALO ALTO NETWORKS
vendors , integrating with solutions like email systems or web applications firewalls ( WAF ), the other sort of components that you would need in your cybersecurity posture . We can definitely add value to intelligence feeds into that ,” says Croker .
An example of this is Palo Alto ’ s new Web Application and API Security ( Outof-Band WAAS ) functionality . Through comprehensive detection and prevention of web application vulnerabilities and unsecured APIs , businesses could prevent multimillion dollar security incidents .
“ Companies no longer have to decide between application security and performance ,” says Ankur Shah , Senior Vice President , Prisma Cloud , Palo Alto Networks . “ By adding Out-of-Band WAAS to Prisma Cloud , we are empowering customers with flexible security options that fit their evolving application needs ”.
Palo Alto ’ s friendly manner of approach to integration with third parties demonstrates willingness to collaborate but also to share intel . Without this , Croker suggests : “ You ' re just going to get a patchy response and inconsistent reporting to the same system . You are not going to get false positives . You ' re going to just end up in a mess to be honest . So that ' s why we collaborate .”
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