Palo Alto Prisma Integration Guide
Overview
Palo Alto Prisma is Palo Alto Networks’ cloud-delivered security platform, spanning SASE (Prisma Access) and cloud security (Prisma Cloud), that secures user-to-application and application-to-application traffic across distributed environments. It relies heavily on TLS certificates for SSL decryption and for the portals and gateways that broker secure connectivity. CertSecure Manager brings these certificates under centralized lifecycle management so they stay valid, trusted, and policy-compliant across the entire Prisma footprint.
Key Use Cases
- Continuously discover and inventory the TLS certificates used by Prisma gateways, portals, and SSL decryption, giving security teams a single, accurate view of what is deployed and when each certificate expires. This removes the blind spots that appear when certificates are scattered across a distributed SASE environment.
- Automatically renew and redeploy Prisma decryption and forward-trust certificates ahead of expiry, preventing the sudden loss of inspection visibility or blocked traffic that an expired certificate causes. Renewals run as a scheduled, hands-off workflow instead of relying on manual tracking.
- Enforce consistent key-size, validity-period, and approved-CA policy on every certificate provisioned to Prisma, so the platform only ever uses certificates that meet the organization’s cryptographic and compliance standards.