Palo Alto Networks has announced improvements to its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), Prisma Cloud, designed to allow enterprises to monitor and secure their cloud applications throughout the development life cycle from a single, unified solution.

The latest release of Prisma Cloud, dubbed Darwin, incorporates Code-to-Cloud intelligence features that analyze patterns, behaviors, and anomalies across application source code, cloud infrastructure, and runtime environments, tracing security issues back to their source and providing developers context for remediation.

The Darwin update provides capabilities such as comprehensive application-centric visibility into cloud services, APIs, workloads, data, code, and endpoints; correlation of information across the security stack to identify vulnerabilities and attack paths; direct remediation of issues at the source; vulnerability management; a simplified dashboard for reporting and control; and visibility into external cloud environments.

Analyst QuickTake: CrowdStrike , a major competitor in the CNAPP space, expanded the cloud application security capabilities of its Falcon platform with the acquisition of application security posture management company Bionic in September 2023. Other notable players in the cloud-native application security space include Microsoft , Zscaler , and Orca Security .