ANALYST REPORT

A Recognized Leader in Zero Trust Edge

Forrester has named Palo Alto Networks a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Edge Solutions, Q3 2023 report.

Palo Alto Networks drives Zero Trust
at the Department of Defense

Learn more from the Zero Trust 2023 Playbook

Understanding Zero Trust: A Strategic Methodology

Creating a holistic plan will help you move forward efficiently with Zero Trust. Find out what actions you should take.

Enabling the Future of Work with Zero Trust

Secure Your Hybrid Workforce the Right Way with ZTNA

Zero Trust with Zero Exceptions

With thousands of customers and deployments across the entire cybersecurity ecosystem, no one has more experience than Palo Alto Networks. We know security is never one size fits all. What makes our Zero Trust Enterprise approach different?

Bringing it all together.

The Palo Alto Networks Zero Trust Framework
Identity
Device / Workload
Access
Transaction
Validate users with
strong
authentication
Verify user device
integrity
Enforce least-privilege access for workloads accessing other workloads
Scan all content for
malicious activity
and data theft

Zero Trust
for Applications

Validate developers,
devops, and admins
with strong
authentication
Verify workload integrity
Enforce least privilege user access to data and applications
Scan all content within the infrastructure for malicious activity and data theft

Zero Trust
for Infrastructure

Validate all users with access to the infrastructure
Identify all devices including IoT
Least-privilege access segmentation for native and third party infrastructure
Scan all content for malicious activity and data theft
Identity
Device / Workload
Access
Transaction
Enterprise IAM
cortex logoCortex XDR
strata logo
Network Security Platform
Prisma Access, NGFW, Cloud-Delivered Security Services

Zero Trust
for Applications

Enterprise IAM
cortex logoCortex XDR
cortex logo Prisma Cloud
cortex logo
Prisma Cloud & Software Firewalls

Zero Trust
for Infrastructure

Enterprise IAM
cortex logo
Network Security Platform
Prisma Access, NGFW, Cloud-Delivered Security Services
Step one of any Zero Trust effort requires knowing exactly who your users are. You can't trust anything about users, they must prove who they are including thier laptop, what they are trying to do with an application and more.
Removes implicit trust in various components of appplications when they talk with each other. A fundamental tenet of Zero Trust is that applications cannot be trusted-continous monitoring at runtime is necessary to validate their behaviour.
The same Zero Trust principles apply to infrastructure-implicit trust must be eliminated across everything infrastructure related: routers,switches,cloud,IoT, supply chain, etc.
Identity
Identity
Validate users with strong authentication
device
Device / Workload
Verify user device integrity
access
Access
Validate all users with access to the infrastructure
transaction
Transaction
Scan all content for malicious activity and data theft
Identity
Identity
Validate developers, devops, and admins with strong authentication
device
Device / Workload
Verify workload integrity
access
Access
Enforce least-privilege user access to data and applications
transaction
Transaction
Scan all content within the infrastructure for malicious activity and data theft
Identity
Identity
Validate all users with access to the infrastructure
device
Device / Workload
Identify all devices including IoT
access
Access
Least-privilege access segmentation for native and third party infrastructure
transaction
Transaction
Scan all content for malicious activity and data theft
transaction
Identity
Enterprise IAM
device
Device / Workload
cortex logoCortex XDR
access
Access
transaction
Transaction
cortex logoNetwork Security Platform
Prisma Access, NGFW, Cloud-Delivered Security Services
Identity
Identity
device
Device / Workload
prisma logoPrisma
Cloud
Enterprise IAM
cortex logoCortex XDR
access
Access
transaction
Transaction
cortex logoPrisma Cloud & Software Firewalls
Identity
Identity
Enterprise IAM
device
Device / Workload
access
Access
transaction
Transaction
strata logoNetwork Security Platform
Prisma Access, NGFW, Cloud-Delivered Security Services

The security operations center: an essential function

When building a Zero Trust Enterprise, the main role of the security operations center (SOC) is to provide an additional layer of verification to further reduce risk. By continuously monitoring all activity for signs of anomalous or malicious intent – using analytics, artificial intelligence, automation and human analysis – the SOC provides an audit point for earlier trust decisions and can override them if necessary. With a wider view of the entire infrastructure, the SOC has the ability to discover things that would normally go undetected. Download the e-book to learn more about the role of the SOC.

Zero Trust today

Enterprises are transforming to accommodate the hybrid workforce, data center cloud migration and SOC automation. In response, many security vendors have begun to recommend Zero Trust. However, they often end up pointing back to their point solutions. Modern board members and C-level executives want and expect a systematic cybersecurity approach to rebuild risk management.

The Zero Trust Enterprise is an approach to cybersecurity that simplifies risk management to a single use case: the removal of all this implicit trust. No matter the situation, user, user location, access method, security becomes one single use case with the most extreme cybersecurity checks.

  • 72%

    of respondents have plans of adopting zero trust in the future or have already adopted it.


    Source: Statista – Zero Trust IT Model Adoption

  • 15.2%

    Compound annual growth rate expected from 2021 to 2028 for the global zero trust security market.


    Source: Grand View Research – Zero Trust Security Market Report


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