Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced a new release for its Prisma Cloud cloud security platform that includes advanced Code-to-Cloud Intelligence features designed to provide enhanced protection across the application lifecycle from inception to active runtime.

Called “Darwin,” the new updates offer an intelligent approach to cloud-native application protection with Prisma Cloud’s Code-to-Cloud Intelligence. New in the Darwin release, Code-to-Cloud Intelligence dives deep into patterns, behaviors and anomalies across code, cloud infrastructure and cloud runtime.

Code-to-Cloud Intelligence does not simply identify security issues but traces their source in code and back, allowing for effective remediation at the origin of risk. To prevent problems from multiplying as applications are built and deployed, developers have deep context on exactly what needs fixing.

The Darwin release also sees new innovations that work together to simplify how organizations prevent risks and stop breaches. With Darwin, organizations can understand their applications in context with AppDNA and uncover complex risks with the Infinity Graph to fix and prevent risks from occurring again via Code-to-Cloud Remediation, according to the company. Connected insights from the developer environment to applications in production in the release also streamline effective security.

AppDNA, also new in the Darwin release, modernizes visibility by structuring inventory into an intuitive application-centric view that displays cloud apps and their DNA, Palo Alto said. In this case, DNA includes cloud services, infrastructure assets, compute workloads, application programming interface endpoints, data and code that makeup given applications.

Palo Alto Networks’ Infinity Graph has been designed to make it easy to understand risks with deep context. It correlates the security stack across misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, exposure, identity, secrets and sensitive data to show users the potential attack paths leading to a breach. The graph also overlays active attack attempts to show what’s occurring and whether users have adequate protection in place. And it enables users to search and investigate issues by asking any question, from code to cloud.

Leveraging an “outside-looking-in” view into cloud environments, new Cloud Discovery and Exposure Management in the Darwin release empower security teams to discover, evaluate and mitigate unknown and unmanaged internet exposure risks in their cloud environments, Palo Alto said. The feature highlights rogue assets to provide a comprehensive risk assessment and allows users to easily onboard unmanaged assets to Prisma Cloud, helping secure cloud infrastructure against previously unmanaged risks.

The all-encompassing approach is claimed by Palo Alto Networks to provide big operational advantages to developers, operations and security teams. The Darwin release helps ensure that organizations are shielded from threats, no matter where they originate.

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