Palo Alto Networks Certified Cloud Security Engineer (PCCSE)Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP)Medium
A security operations team is investigating an incident where a containerized application exhibited unusual outbound network connections. They need to quickly determine the exact process within the container that initiated these connections and its full command line arguments. Which Prisma Cloud CWPP capability provides this level of granular detail for incident response?
- ACompliance Explorer
- BVulnerability Explorer
- CImage Assurance
- DRuntime Forensics
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Correct answer: D. Runtime Forensics
Prisma Cloud's Runtime Forensics capability records detailed information about process execution, network connections, file access, and other system calls within containers, providing the granular data needed for incident investigation.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Compliance Explorer assesses configurations against benchmarks, not live incident forensics.
- B. Vulnerability Explorer focuses on software vulnerabilities, not runtime incident details.
- C. Image Assurance defines policies for container images before deployment, not for analyzing live incidents.
Prisma Cloud Runtime Forensics
Runtime Forensics in Prisma Cloud captures and stores detailed runtime events within containers and hosts, such as process execution, network activity, and file system changes, enabling in-depth incident investigation and root cause analysis.
- Records granular runtime events
- Aids in incident response and root cause analysis
- Covers processes, network, file system activities
Memory trick: Runtime Forensics is your detailed crime scene report for containers.