Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud vs. VMware Carbon Black App Control

Finding specific Cloud Vendor specific Cloud resource configuration, tags, network information and etc. is fairly easy to do. Cloud alert capabilities are pretty good and with proper knowledge top notch alerts can be created. Only downside I can think of is ease of use.

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Cb Protect is best suited somewhere where you want to maximize the lockdown of workstations. So moving past no local admin rights to blocking specific applications and peripherals. The idea would be to have a list of applications you want to run, and then anything else is not able to be used. As stated prior, if you have a very fluid environment where you are having all sorts of new applications installed frequently (I feel for you!!) this is still do-able, but it misses the general idea. I think especially in environments that are more sensitive to new applications, like banks, healthcare systems etc, this is a good fit. The ability to look at application levels, drift, unapproved software etc is very useful.

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• Vulnerability assessment using Twistlock
• Enhancing Security by scanning workload based on different Security standards and provide a compliance report
• CF template integration with CI/CD pipeline to identify any security issue before workload are deployed
• IAM/UEBA features additional to enchaining security posture
• Auto remediation
• Integration is simple and solution is supported on multiple cloud
• Customized dashboard/queries

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• Controls file writes, executions of the scripts
• Defends from process injections, memory protection
• Visibility and lock down posibilities

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• Real-time supports would be much appreciated. At the moment they have a third-party ticketing support tool, which can be replaced with real-time support, which can be provided to the user at the time of the issue.
• The user should be provided with all the learning material by the Palo Alto team at the time of license purchase. This would save a lot of users' time, which is taken up by research and finding the correct documents from the website.
• Themes can be introduced in the feature set, which would help the user customize the software as per their needs.

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• Perhaps more specific training.

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Our organization didn't consider any other tool, and so far we are pretty much satisfied with Prisma Cloud.

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The big difference between Protect and Barkly/AMP is how exactly it goes about what it's doing. Protect is application whitelisting and program reputation. So the way it's protecting you is using a proprietary reputation service, and hash values to identify applications, and then hitting a list of whitelisted programs to decide if you are able to run that or not, based on the policy you are in. There is a LOT of value in that. We actually are working on transitioning to Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP). The main reason is cost (about the same cost as Cb Protect, but with (most of) the featureset of all 3 Carbon Black products for less than 1/3 of the total spend. AMP works differently, looking at a reputation service powered by Cisco's Talos cloud. You don't really have application whitelisting, but that also reduces how many "requests" you get for applications. So I'll have to find a different way to do whitelisting and USB blocking and the like, but I'm getting more visibility across my network and also built in antivirus (TETRA engine - ClamAV with some work). Barkly is an add that we are looking to put in as it looks at behavior of programs. So specifically it watches for privilege elevation and the like. Thus far all the big name problem children (WannaCry, other ransomware problems) have been caught natively in Barkly day 0.

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• Investigation time is severely reduced
• Has potential to identify misconfigurations
• Hard to setup

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• App Control can ensure Continuous Compliance.
• Solution can reduce expenses on different security software.
• Nowadays Zero Trust approach is very important for any organization and Application control is one of the main parts of it.

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