Palo Alto Networks unveils next-generation CASB to help enterprises secure increasing SaaS usage

Cloud Access Security Broker: Palo Alto Networks unveils next-generation CASB to help enterprises secure increasing SaaS usage.

Palo Alto Networks has unveiled the industry’s only next-generation cloud access security broker (CASB), raising the bar for SaaS security to meet today’s hybrid workloads.

As SaaS applications, especially modern collaboration tools, drive a rapidly growing hybrid workforce, security teams are struggling to maintain security. They were developed when the range of applications was much smaller and more predictable. As a result, many of the tools in use today are not adequately protected. Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation CASB helps organisations securely adopt SaaS by automatically securing new applications, protecting sensitive data in real time, and stopping known and unknown threats with best-in-class threat detection and prevention.

“SaaS applications have become far too important and popular for a superficial security approach to suffice,” said Anand Oswal, senior vice president of network security at Palo Alto Networks. “In addition, collaboration apps are now at the heart of hybrid and distributed workgroup productivity, but traditional SaaS security has not focused on these apps or kept pace with this change. Palo Alto Networks’ new Next-Generation CASB solves this problem by using the latest technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing to find new apps and watch for potential security issues.

Palo Alto Networks has fully integrated Next-Generation CASB into the industry’s most comprehensive SASE solution, Prisma® SASE, and into all form factors of the company’s leading Next-Generation Firewalls, offering many benefits.

Learn more about these benefits in this article.