Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity leader, today launched innovative prevention-first application security management solutions for Cortex Cloud to address security threats before they reach the production stage. This approach allows security leaders and developers to resolve security risks before deploying cloud and AI-driven applications, which is 10 times faster and more cost-effective than traditional methods.
Article contents:
- Proactive security: preventing risks before production
- Open partner ecosystem
- Matching the speed of innovation
- ASPM solution strengths
- Availability
- Conclusion: a paradigm shift in cloud security
- Frequently asked questions
Proactive security: preventing risks before production
This new approach allows security leaders and developers to resolve security risks before deploying cloud and AI-driven applications, which is 10 times faster and more cost-effective than traditional methods that react to threats after the fact.
Open partner ecosystem
The Cortex Cloud Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) solution includes an open AppSec partner ecosystem, enabling organizations to integrate data from their preferred third-party code scanning tools into a single centralized platform for comprehensive visibility. Partners include Black Duck, Checkmarx, GitLab, HashiCorp, Semgrep, Snyk, and Veracode.
Matching the speed of innovation
Sarit Safer, vice president of product management at Palo Alto Networks, commented: “As AI-supported coding compresses development from months to hours, security must evolve to match the speed of innovation. Cortex Cloud provides the most comprehensive approach to cloud security, stopping risks before they reach production.”
ASPM solution strengths
Strengths include:
- Preventing risks from the start rather than chasing them later: Proactively stopping security issues before deployment begins.
- Prioritizing real issues over false positives: Identifying critical and exploitable risks by correlating findings from the open ecosystem of scanning tools with complete code, cloud, runtime, and business context.
- Automating remediation and preventing bottlenecks: Eliminating manual remediation burdens for security and development teams through leading automation at every stage of the application lifecycle.
Availability
The Cortex Cloud ASPM solution is currently available in early access and is expected to be generally available in the second half of 2025.
Conclusion: a paradigm shift in cloud security
With the launch of these new solutions, Palo Alto Networks introduces a paradigm shift in how organizations approach cloud security. By moving from a reactive to a proactive and preventative approach, companies can innovate faster and more securely, ensuring their cloud and AI-driven applications are secure from inception.
Frequently asked questions
What is ASPM?
It stands for Application Security Posture Management, an approach to managing application security posture that focuses on identifying and fixing vulnerabilities early in the software development life cycle (SDLC).
What is the benefit of a proactive approach?
Fixing security vulnerabilities during the development phase is much cheaper and faster than fixing them after the application is deployed to the production environment, where attackers can exploit them and remediation costs are significantly higher.
What is the open partner system?
It allows organizations to integrate security scanning tools they already use from other companies (such as Snyk or Checkmarx) into the Cortex Cloud platform, providing a unified view of all security risks in one place.
