With digital assets dispersed across multiple cloud platforms in a shifting landscape, organizations find it difficult to keep track of and secure their cloud systems — which is understandable, given that cloud environments now account for 80% of security exposures. The expanded attack surface, coupled with the struggle to maintain visibility and control, underscores the need for rigorous cloud security strategies.
But security teams are understaffed. They’re also inundated with alerts requiring immediate attention. Unsustainable workloads contributing to employee burnout and turnover raise the likelihood of overlooking critical alerts.
That’s where AI-powered tools like Prisma Cloud come in.
Reintroducing the Prisma Cloud Copilot
On May 7, Palo Alto Networks introduced a new suite of security solutions powered by Precision AI™, offering a holistic approach to help organizations navigate the AI era. Our launch included a private preview of Prisma Cloud Copilot, an advanced AI security assistant that simplifies governance, compliance and management across multicloud platforms.
Prisma Cloud Copilot is an intelligent AI assistant that empowers security professionals with enhanced capabilities for threat detection, vulnerability management, compliance and risk mitigation in cloud environments. This powerful tool is rolling out to our users as of October 1.
Let’s look at a few use cases we think you'll find exciting.
1. Prioritizing Risks with Attack Paths
Security teams are overwhelmed by an influx of alerts, making it difficult to prioritize risks. Manually sorting through alerts to determine the most critical vulnerabilities is slow and prone to errors, especially under time constraints.
Streamlining Risk Prioritization with Copilot
Prisma Cloud Copilot automatically identifies and prioritizes attack paths, helping teams focus on the most urgent threats. With clear, actionable steps provided by Copilot, misconfigurations and vulnerabilities are resolved quickly, reducing the window of opportunity for attackers.
Before: Time-consuming manual sorting of alerts.
After: Immediate identification and resolution of high-priority risks.
2. Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities
Without an AI assistant, vulnerability management can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Teams manually collect and sift through data spread across multiple tools, making it difficult to gain a comprehensive view of security issues.
Simplifying Vulnerability Management
Prisma Cloud Copilot provides a unified view of vulnerabilities across all cloud environments. It scans for critical risks, flags the most urgent vulnerabilities, and offers detailed remediation steps, tracking the status of fixes in real time. Teams can now find and fix vulnerabilities faster, improving overall security posture.
Through a visual dashboard, Copilot highlights which vulnerabilities to address first and monitors the remediation progress, making vulnerability management streamlined and efficient.
Before: Fragmented, manual search for vulnerabilities.
After: Unified vulnerability detection with automated guidance.
3. Building Complex Queries with Natural Language
Manually creating queries requires expertise in query languages like RQL. Security teams spend hours writing and testing them to find the right data. It’s tedious and error-prone.
Transforming Query Building with Natural Language
With Prisma Cloud Copilot, analysts ask questions in plain language. For example, instead of manually crafting a query to find exposed S3 buckets, you ask, "Which S3 buckets are publicly accessible?" and instantly get the data. Copilot translates your question into a precise query, eliminating the need for specialized knowledge.
By processing vast datasets and identifying patterns in real time, Prisma Cloud Copilot generates insights from natural language questions, cutting hours of manual work down to seconds.
Before: Hours spent writing and revising queries.
After: Instant insights, no manual query-writing needed.
4. Accelerating Support Requests
Creating a support request manually involves gathering logs, configurations, and other essential details. It’s time-consuming and something important often gets overlooked, leading to delays and frustration.
Copilot Automates Support Requests
Prisma Cloud Copilot automates the whole process. It bundles everything you need for a support request, ensuring all relevant information is included upfront. By reducing back-and-forth with support teams, cases get resolved faster and more efficiently.
Before: Long, incomplete support cases and slower resolutions.
After: Accurate, complete requests with quicker turnarounds.
Figure 4: Copilot automates the collection of all relevant information, making support requests more comprehensive and faster to resolve.
5. Fast-Tracking Documentation Search
Searching through endless documentation to find answers can be frustrating. It’s often a slow process of manually navigating large databases and cross-referencing different sources, wasting valuable time.
Instant Doc Searches Results
With Prisma Cloud Copilot, finding relevant documentation is faster and easier. Copilot quickly searches through Prisma Cloud’s extensive resources and provides direct answers, allowing security teams to continue their work without interruptions. In fact, the search process is 24x faster than manual documentation searches with Copilot.
Before: Time wasted navigating through pages of documentation.
After: Instant, accurate answers from search powered by Precision AI.
Experience the Power of Precision AI in Cloud Security
Prisma Cloud Copilot is now available to transform how you secure your cloud environments. Whether you're looking to streamline vulnerability management, simplify support requests, or effortlessly build complex queries, Copilot has you covered. Prepare for that second lease on life — it’s here!
Ready to see the benefits yourself? Try Prisma Cloud Copilot with a free 30-day trial and experience the power of AI-driven cloud security firsthand.