From VPNs to Firewalls via proxies, companies have stacked safety solutions over the needs. Result: an increasing technical complexity, explosive maintenance costs, and a lack of operational visibility. Faced with this fragmentation, the unified platform is essential.
Each new use case – remote access, partners, generative AI, private applications – becomes a project in itself. Among some major accounts, it is not uncommon to see a dozen cybersecurity tools coexist, each with their consoles, logs, integrations.
“It is a spaghetti dish. Each wire is legitimate, but the whole is illegible”
Multiplying tools is multiplying the dead angles
An infrastructure in silo, inherited from incremental growth, does not allow agility or control. The logs are dispersed, the policies are redundant, and the uses real – especially in terms of AI or Shadow IT – often escape the radars. Worse: faults are often born in interstices between two systems.
The answer: a modular platform, Cloud-Native
The platform approach is based on a simple principle: a common, extensible technical base, administered centralized. This is what Palo Alto offers with his suite Stratacombining:
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- A single management interface (strata cloud manager),
- A unified data lake for the correlation of the logs,
- A activation at the request of modules (ZTNA, DLP, AI Security, etc.),
- A cloud-native architecture capable of integrating future use cases.
The platform then becomes an operational basis, not a stack of solutions. Each new need (generative, secure browser, third -party access) is treated by activation, not by addition.
A strategic lever for the CIO
This model allows:
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- Of Reduce integration and maintenance costs,,
- To improve Visibility on real risks,,
- To accelerate projects without redefining the entire security chain,
- And above all, Get out of the “tool = solution” reflexto enter a “architecture = answer” logic.
The patchwork is dead, place at the platform
In a world where IT borders are moving, thinking by isolated bricks amounts to running after the problem. Platform logic, it environmental structure to absorb the unexpectedwithout recreating a technical debt with each innovation.
For CIOs, this is no longer an option. It is an operational survival condition.
Table of technical solutions by strategic need
| Strategic use cases | Technos Leaders (Palo Alto & Alternatives outside Microsoft) | Technical model | DSI recommendation |
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| 🛡️ Secure remote access without VPN | Prisma Access (Palo Alto), Zscaler, Cloudflare One, Cisco Umbrella | SAS / FWAAS / ZTNA | Favor SaaS platforms distributed with Ztna native |
| 🔐 Manage partner access / byod | Prisma Access Browser, Talon, Island, Cloudflare Browser Insulation | Secure Browser / Light Agent | Quick deployment without VDI, suitable for providers and byod |
| 🔍 Identify the use of AI internally | AI Access (Palo Alto), Lookout, Vectra Ai, Cradlepoint + Appomni | Network sensors + behavioral analysis | Allows you to audit and supervise the use of Genai in the teams |
| ⚙️ Protect LLM models and internal IA pipelines | Ai Runtime (Palo Alto), Robust Intelligence, Protect Ai, Hiddenlayer | Microservices in cuts, API/containerized | Essential for organizations developing internal models or dealing with critical data |
| 📊 Centralize logs & alerting security | Cortex Xsiam (Palo Alto), Splunk, Elastic Security, Google Chronicle | SIEM / XDR / UEBA | Choose according to budget, scalability, and interfacing capacity |
| 🧩 Unify security policies | Strata DLP (Palo Alto), ForcePoint One, Lookout Casb, Symantec DLP | DLP Native Cloud + CASB | Multi-voter coverage: web, email, SaaS apps, terminals |
| 📦 Reduce the patchwork of safety tools | Palo Alto Strata, Crowdstrike Falcon, Fortinet Security Fabric, Cisco Securex | Unified safety platform | Ideal for rationalizing the safety environment with unified support |
| 💻 Avoid VDI costs while securing access | Prisma Browser, Talon Work, Citrix Secure Browser, Cloudflare App Proxy | Secure browser, partitioned accessible access | Immediate king in multisite organizations or with external providers |
| 🔄 Master SaaS access and reduce the Shadow IT | Prisma Saas, Netskope, Lookout Casb, Appomni | Casb, SaaS visibility | For any structure> 30 SaaS apps or with autonomous business uses |
| 📉 Reduce cybersecurity costs | Strata Platform, Zscaler, Fortinet Fabrication, Crowdstrike Bundle | Modular consolidation / licensing | Functional pooling, drop in integration and operations costs |
