Palo Alto Networks launches Sovereign Prisma SASE. The security solution keeps data and encryption keys within Europe.
Palo Alto Networks is bringing Sovereign Prisma SASE to market, a version of its network and cloud security platform that runs entirely within European jurisdiction. The solution targets regulated sectors such as banks, energy companies and hospitals.
Data and keys stay in Europe
Data storage, network traffic inspection and management take place within Europe, under European contracts and with local support. Organisations manage their own encryption keys via local hardware security modules (HSMs), without slowing down the network.
Global threat intelligence does flow in, so that zero-day attacks and ransomware are blocked immediately. Sensitive company data does not flow out in the other direction. This is how Palo Alto Networks wants to solve its self-coined SASE trilemma: keeping data within national borders without creating a blind spot against international hackers.
Second sovereign solution
Sovereign Prisma SASE follows Sovereign Cortex, which came to market in June. This means a sovereign variant now also exists for the network and cloud security platform.
IBM surveyed 2,003 decision-makers at large enterprises for its Digital Sovereignty Index. Of those, 94 percent ran into a sovereignty problem at least once in the past three years, most often related to AI (44 percent). Palo Alto points to those figures to put Sovereign Prisma SASE in context.
At 35 percent of companies, a switch to another vendor was necessary, and for one in three (33 percent), access to or transfer of data went wrong.