Xpertex

Palo Alto Cloud Hosting

Prisma Cloud is the industry’s most complete Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), with the industry’s broadest security and compliance coverage for infrastructure, workloads, and applications, across the entire cloud native technology stack—throughout the development lifecycle and across hybrid and multicloud environments.

Features

• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Cloud Workload Protection (CWP)
• Code Application Security (CAS) and Infrastructure as Code Security (IAC)
• Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
• Agentless or Agent based approach
• Attack Path Analysis
• Cloud Identity Entitlement Management (CIEM)
• Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
• Serverless, container and host security
• Web Application API Security (WAAS) and Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Benefits

• Multicloud support for AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba, IBM
• Simplifying Compliance with Immediate evaluation against common security frameworks
• Implement scanning in CI/CD pipelines with security guardrails
• Enable developer velocity by integrating security into the SDLC
• Cloud Security tool consolidation and extensive integrations
• Reduce alert fatigue with vulnerability prioritisation and contextualisation
• Remediate risks in cloud and trace code to fix forever
• Find interrelated weaknesses and isolate exploitable attack vectors
• Establish continuous visibility and control across your cloud environment
• Enable real-time protection for cloud workloads, web applications, and APIs

£2,000 an instance

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

915211174763559

Contact

Louise Carter
08450341412
louise.carter@xpertex.com

Service scope

• Service constraints: At present, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Platform, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Alibaba Cloud are the only supported platforms for all functionality. Docker Enterprise Edition, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher and Pivotal are supported from a containerisation technology only at time of writing.
• System requirements:
  • Service account with sufficient permissions for chosen public cloud platforms
  • Prisma Cloud is supported on both x86_64 and ARM64

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Our support is available round-the-clock, every day of the year (24/7/365), ensuring assistance whenever you need it most. We pride ourselves on our swift response times, tailored to the urgency of your issues:; ; Critical Priority: Guaranteed response time of less than one hour.; High Priority: Issues addressed within two hours to ensure prompt resolution.; Medium Priority: Attention within four hours, balancing urgency and efficiency.; Low Priority: Response within eight business hours, demonstrating our commitment to comprehensive support.; Our service level agreements (SLAs) remain consistent throughout the week, including weekends and public holidays, ensuring reliable assistance whenever you require it.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 A
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Web chat
• Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.1 A
• Web chat accessibility testing: No the opportunity has not come up to at time of writing.
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Standard Customer Success and Support - Prisma Cloud Enterprise Edition and Compute Edition are bundled with Standard Customer Success and Support. Standard Customer Success and Support includes basic customer support online and access to all online content.; ; Premium Customer Success (CS) - is available for both Prisma Cloud Enterprise Edition and Prisma Cloud Compute Edition. Premium CS is 20% of List on the price book. A dedicated ""Resident Engineer"" is available as an additional purchase
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Customer can use our professional services team to accelerate the journey on the platform. We also provide an online training platform called Beacons. A full range of user documenation can be found on our website.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: HTML
• End-of-contract data extraction: Cloud data that Palo Alto Networks hold on an organisation/tenant can be exported and deleted by contacting Palo Alto Networks support. If no contact is made data will automatically be purged after 90 days post cessation of the contract(s).
• End-of-contract process: At the end of the contract, if the organisation chooses not to renew and continue with the service all data pertaining to the organisation is deleted. If the organisation chooses to renew then the service continues as normal. 90-days prior to the contract expiration date an initial reminder email is sent, followed up by gradually increasing reminders until the date of expiration.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Using the web interface: All features and functionality are primarily delivered through the secure web admin console.; This includes the initial setup, system-configuration, on-boarding and operational functions such as monitoring and reporting.; A role-based access control (RBAC) system is in place to enforce the relevant access and configuration permissions requirements for certain types of individual users or groups.
• Web interface accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web interface is accessible: The secure web console is accessible via apps.paloaltonetworks.com or the stack can be accessed directly based on location of the tenant such as app.uk.prismacloud.io; ; IP Whitelisting can be utilised to restrict access to the management web interface.
• Web interface accessibility testing: The full VPAT / WCAG report can be provided on request.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: The Prisma Cloud API allows you to programmatically access and manage your Prisma Cloud resources, making it easy to automate tasks, integrate with other tools, and build custom integrations. With a variety of endpoints available, Prisma Cloud API aims to automate tasks and facilitate integrations with a wide range of application types while covering the majority of workflows and use cases currently supported by the Prisma Cloud web interface.
• API automation tools:
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • OpenStack
  • SaltStack
  • Terraform
  • Puppet
  • Other
• Other API automation tools:
  • Demisto (Cortex XSOAR) - Supports the industry leading SOAR toolset.
  • Python/Go Libraries published/standardised libraries for use in custom projects
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: HTML
• Command line interface: Yes
• Command line interface compatibility:
  • Linux or Unix
  • Windows
  • MacOS
  • Other
• Using the command line interface: Prisma Cloud provides a number of CLI solutions that can provide security assurance on configuration files used to create cloud infrastructure, and the images that are used to create containers. These CLI tools can be used within the CICD Pipelines to prevent a malicious image or misconfigured infrastructure from entering a production environment.; Customers are provided twistCLI to scan container images and conduct image analysis sandboxing. In addiotn to this, customer can utilise Checkov by BridgeCrew as a CLI tool to scan for IaC misconfigurations, Secret exposure and SCA. Both CLI tools require an API key from the Prisma Cloud console to function. The twistcli tool is delivered with every Prisma Cloud release. It is statically compiled, so it does not have any external dependencies, and it can run on any Linux host. Customers can use these CLI tools as an additional method to assist in scanning, for example adding guardrails in a CICD Pipeline etc. These tools do not allow customers to change global setting for the Prisma Cloud Console - for this use case, customers should consider utilising the Prisma Cloud API.

Scaling

• Scaling available: Yes
• Scaling type: Automatic
• Independence of resources: Palo Alto Networks through an automated process is constantly evaluating and monitoring the load placed upon the application. Each customers instance is unique so there is no risk of shared resources being fully utilised by another organisation. As load increases the service will automatically bring online additional compute resources to accommodate the additional load.
• Usage notifications: No

Analytics

• Infrastructure or application metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Other
• Other metrics:
  • Instance details
  • Compliance
  • Image Health
  • Policy Violations
  • Vulnerabilities
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra features and support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Palo Alto Networks

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: In-house
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
  • Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: Service are supplied from Google and Amazon Data centers (further information to follow); Google Security statement; https://cloud.google.com/security/overview/ ; https://cloud.google.com/security/; ; AWS Security Statement; https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-center/controls/ ; https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-whitepaper; https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-center/data-centers/; ; All logs are stored in the Cortex data lake, user activity is monitored and stored in the Cortex data lake for the agreed retention period.
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
  • Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Backup and recovery

• Backup and recovery: Yes
• What’s backed up: Customers can back up all data from cloud workload protection
• Backup controls: Prisma Cloud automatically backs up all data and configuration files periodically. You can view all backups, make new backups, and restore specific backups from the Console UI.
• Datacentre setup: Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
• Scheduling backups: Supplier controls the whole backup schedule
• Backup recovery: Users contact the support team

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Other
• Other protection between networks: Palo Alto Networks uses a proprietary encryption layer for API calls, telemetry and update services.
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Other
• Other protection within supplier network: Palo Alto Networks uses a proprietary encryption layer for API calls, telemetry and update services.

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Prisma™ Cloud services shall be available 99.9% of the time, measured monthly excluding scheduled maintenance. ; ; If Customer requests maintenance during these hours, any uptime or downtime calculation will exclude periods affected by such maintenance.; Further, any downtime resulting from outages of third-party connections or utilities or other reasons beyond the control of Palo Alto Networks will also be excluded from any such calculation. ; ; Customer’s sole and exclusive remedy and the entire liability of; Palo Alto Networks, in connection with Prisma Cloud service availability, shall be to credit Customer 2% of monthly service fees (downtime credit) for each period of 60 consecutive minutes of downtime, provided that no more than one such credit will accrue; per day. Downtime shall begin to accrue as soon as Customer notifies Palo Alto Networks that downtime is taking place and will continue to accrue until service is restored.; ; In order to receive downtime credit, the customer must notify Palo Alto Networks in writing within 24 hours from the time of downtime. Failure to provide such notice will forfeit the right to receive downtime credit.
• Approach to resilience: Palo Alto Networks delivers the Prisma Cloud service utilising public cloud providers Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Platform. Within each of these providers the use of “availability zones” (AZ) to ensure geo and service redundancy and resiliency within a region (e.g. United Kingdom) and at a regional level with traffic being able to be steered to another region/availability zone/location should an incident occur.
• Outage reporting: A public dashboard available at status.paloaltonetworks.com and via email alerting.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Users authenticate to the service at organisation.prismacloud.io or apps.paloaltonetworks.com using a username and password combination and multifactor authentication (if configured). API access is controlled via key/token system.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
• Devices users manage the service through:
  • Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)
  • Dedicated device on a government network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated device over multiple services or networks
  • Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
  • Directly from any device which may also be used for normal business (for example web browsing or viewing external email)

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: IASME
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 23/06/2022
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: 27001 covers the entire organisation
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: Yes
• CSA STAR accreditation date: 16/07/2020
• CSA STAR certification level: Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
• What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover: None
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: See below
• PCI DSS accreditation date: See below
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: Information available on request. https://panservicedesk.service-now.com/esp?id=contract_request&sys_id=f53d00d61b01ac506b7d0e1dcd4bcb45
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • NCSC Foundation Grade Certification
  • SOC2
  • FedRAMP
  • Common Criteria
  • FIPS 140-2
  • Telecom Security Act Code of Practice

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards:
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
• Other security governance standards: Cyber Essentials; SOC2; ISO 27001; ISO 27017; ISO 27018; ISO 27032; ISO 27701
• Information security policies and processes: Palo Alto Networks has a formal Enterprise Risk Management program, which includes the performance of an annual risk assessment, with periodic updates, as applicable, to identify and assess key risks and their mitigation approaches. The scope of the program encompasses information security risks and product risks. Our security program consists of a risk-based approach that includes administrative, technical and physical safeguards reasonably designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of customer data. Palo Alto Network's information security program is aligned to ISO 27001/2, and includes key controls from HIPAA, PCI and SOC2.; ; Governance is the responsibility at board level of the CIO and CISO.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Both Palo Alto Networks and the end-user organisation are in full control of their relevant and respective change control processes.; Additional details are available upon request.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: Applications and software that collect, transmit or display, or process End User Data, Palo Alto Networks conducts an application security assessment review to identify common security vulnerabilities as identified by industry recognized organizations annually or for all major releases, whichever occurs first. The scope of the security assessment will primarily focus on application security, including, but not limited to, a penetration test of the application, as well as a code review.; ; Palo Alto Networks utilizes a qualified third party to conduct the application security assessments. Palo Alto Networks may conduct the security assessment review directly, following industry standard best practices.
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Applications and software that collect, transmit or display, or process End User Data, Palo Alto Networks conducts an application security assessment review to identify common security vulnerabilities as identified by industry recognized organizations annually or for all major releases, whichever occurs first. The scope of the security assessment will primarily focus on application security, including, but not limited to, a penetration test of the application, as well as a code review.; ; Palo Alto Networks utilizes a qualified third party to conduct the application security assessments. Palo Alto Networks may conduct the security assessment review directly, following industry standard best practices.
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: This information is available upon request from Palo Alto Networks.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Separation between users

• Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: Yes
• Who implements virtualisation: Supplier
• Virtualisation technologies used: Other
• Other virtualisation technology used: Proprietary.
• How shared infrastructure is kept separate: Each organisations compute instances are unique to that individual organisation with logical separation being achieved at the cloud provider level. This ensures that no virtualised infrastructure is shared organisation to organisation and each respective organisations data and network traffic is isolated from one another.

Energy efficiency

• Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
• Description of energy efficient datacentres: Information on request from Palo Alto Networks.

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  Xpertex is committed to continually improving our environmental performance and monitoring. Xpertex has started the process to gain the following two environmental ISO accreditations:; ; ISO 14001 Environmental Management System; ISO 50001 Energy Management System; This is on top of our existing ISO9001, ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials PLUS accreditations.; ; Critical to our core operation is our IT infrastructure and Data Centre, which house our IT equipment, along with connectivity to our cloud Infrastructure. Xpertex recognises that energy efficient practices, and reducing our carbon footprint, are paramount in achieving our corporate sustainability goals.; ; Xpertex also works with its customers to help them reduce their carbon footprint where appropriate.; ; Full social value statement https://xpertex.com/social-values/

  Tackling economic inequality

  We are committed to equal pay for our workforce. To address our gender pay gap, we have several initiatives in place, to not only attract more talent, but to encourage a more balanced, and rewarding workplace.; ; Working with educational institutions to help attract more women into STEM focused roles.; We have a mentoring programme available for all, to encourage progression into senior roles.; Training is available to cover areas like Equality & Diversity, Unconscious Bias, etc.; We have established a Women’s Working Group who assist in supporting the attraction, retention and promotion of our female talent across the business.; ; Full social value statement https://xpertex.com/social-values/

  Equal opportunity

  Xpertex is committed to developing, supporting and sustaining a diverse workforce. It strives to create a working environment where everyone can to do their job, to the best of their ability, without having to face discrimination, harassment or victimisation. Xpertex avoids unlawful discrimination in all aspects of employment including recruitment, promotion, training opportunities, pay and benefits, discipline and selection for redundancy. Any decisions concerning employment, promotion and training will be based on objective, job-related criteria and merit. Disability and personal/home commitments will not form the basis of employment decisions except where absolutely reasonable and permissible within anti-discrimination law.; ; Xpertex monitors the ethnic, gender, age composition of our existing workforce as well as the number of people with disabilities within these groups and will consider and take any appropriate action to address any problems that may be identified by the monitoring process.; ; Full social value statement https://xpertex.com/social-values/

  Wellbeing

  Xpertex has an Employee Assistance Programme available to all staff which provides access to advice, counselling and support. Workplace mental health is especially important to the company with information and advice issued on a regular basis. We give every employee a day off on their birthday and additional holiday allowances are in place to recognise length of service milestones. We conduct an annual staff survey which provides opportunity for any issues to be raised to the senior management. Processes exist where concerns can be raised without fear of negative consequences for the individual raising the concerns. Flexible working practises developed during the Covid pandemic are in place giving all staff the ability to work from home where possible. We are continuing to provide these flexible working practices post-pandemic. Flexible working hours are encouraged and were invaluable during the pandemic and enabled parents with school age children to home-school their children, and those with responsibilities to the elderly to provide the support they wish to give. Staff are also encouraged to volunteer to continue to volunteer in the community. Xpertex participated in a local initiative to offer IT equipment to under-privileged children in the local community allowing them to conduct their schooling from home. When staff started to return to the office, all sensible precautions have been maintained. A cycle to work and an electric car salary sacrifice scheme are also available to all employees.; ; Full social value statement https://xpertex.com/social-values/

Pricing

• Price: £2,000 an instance
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at louise.carter@xpertex.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.