What technology does Prisma Access utilize to provide scalability and resilience?

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Options

• AMicrosegmentation
• BSD-WAN Edge
• CIdentity-based policies
• DCloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS)

• B
  2% (1)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  93% (39)

Explanation

Prisma Access is Palo Alto Networks' cloud-native security platform, and it relies on Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS) to achieve scalability and resilience. Because CDSS runs security functions (like threat prevention, URL filtering, and DNS security) from Palo Alto's globally distributed cloud infrastructure, Prisma Access can elastically scale capacity on demand and maintain high availability without physical hardware constraints.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. Microsegmentation - A technique for isolating workloads within a network (common in data center/Zero Trust contexts), not the mechanism that gives Prisma Access its cloud-scale resilience.
• B. SD-WAN Edge - SD-WAN optimizes WAN connectivity and can integrate with Prisma Access, but it is not the underlying technology that provides Prisma Access's scalability.
• C. Identity-based policies - These control who can access what, and Prisma Access does use them - but they define security rules, not the infrastructure that makes the service scalable or resilient.

Memory tip: Break down the name - Prisma Access is delivered via the cloud, and CDSS is literally "Cloud-Delivered." If the question is about scalability/resilience in a cloud-delivered security platform, the answer lives in the cloud architecture (CDSS), not in the policy or topology features layered on top of it.

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