A 5-Step Checklist for CISOs and CIOs to Create the Business Case for Prisma Cloud

Prisma Cloud delivers Code to Cloud™️ security

Most companies struggle to manage their cloud assets with different cloud providers and lack visibility into their entire cloud landscape. It’s also challenging to deploy common policies and permissions across clouds. This leads to an inability to monitor clouds and mitigate risks effectively.

Prisma^® Cloud is a CNAPP (Cloud-Native Protection Application Platform) that secures applications and services across multicloud, hybrid, and private environments. It begins at the coding stage with early-stage code and pipeline scanning and continues throughout the application lifecycle and into runtime, bringing security operations (SecOps) together with developers. The platform provides visibility across development environments, accounts, and applications by monitoring and detecting threats across the clouds for full Code to Cloud security.

Justify your investment in Prisma Cloud

Prisma Cloud delivers cost savings and business benefits in a number of areas, including SecOps efficiency lift, DevOps shift left and productivity lift, material breach risk reduction savings, compliance productivity lift. In just a few simple steps, you can apply these benefits to your organization and understand the ROI you could receive by implementing a CNAPP.

5-Step checklist for justifying Prisma Cloud

1. Calculate efficiency lift for cloud enforcement
2. Estimate DevOps shift left and productivity lift
3. Assess your savings in risk reduction of material breach
4. Determine compliance productivity lift
5. Consider further benefits when building a business case for Prisma Cloud

To see the complete calculations and detailed instructions for how to build the business case for implementing Prisma Cloud please read the 2023 Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™  Checklist commissioned by Palo Alto Networks.