Palo Alto Networks
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022)
Reporting Period: 2022
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Data Security
- Application Security
- Zero Trust
- Cloud Security
- Insider Threat Prevention
Climate Goals & Targets
Short-term Goals:
- Support over 100 applications by the end of the year for SSPM.
Environmental Challenges
- Increased IT complexity due to remote work, explosion of SaaS applications, and new data security regulations.
- Difficulty maintaining visibility and security across numerous SaaS applications.
- Common attacks on SaaS applications including misconfigurations, misuse of privileged accounts, malware, and stolen credentials.
- Ineffective security due to tool sprawl from using multiple point solutions.
Mitigation Strategies
- Next-Generation CASB as part of a SASE architecture to consolidate security capabilities.
- Support for zero trust tenets, including least privilege policies and continuous session inspection.
- Protection of applications by detecting and remediating misconfigurations through SSPM.
- Prevention of data leakage through advanced data security capabilities (NLP, image detection, OCR).
- Blocking sophisticated threats through real-time threat prevention and machine learning.