Prisma Access enables organizations to manage user-based security policies using __________.

Question

Options

• ACompute Locations
• BSecurity Processing Nodes
• CUser-ID
• DPrisma SD-WAN

• A
  5% (2)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  90% (38)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

User-ID is Palo Alto Networks' mechanism for tying network traffic and security policy enforcement to specific users (rather than just IP addresses). Prisma Access uses User-ID to apply identity-based security policies - ensuring that access controls, threat prevention rules, and acceptable-use policies follow the user regardless of their location or device.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. Compute Locations - These are the geographic regions where Prisma Access infrastructure is deployed; they relate to where traffic is processed, not how users are identified for policy.
• B. Security Processing Nodes (SPNs) - SPNs are the compute units within Prisma Access that perform security inspection; they're an architectural component, not an identity mechanism.
• D. Prisma SD-WAN - This is a separate product for branch/WAN connectivity optimization; it doesn't handle user identity mapping for security policy.

Memory tip: Think "User-ID = User Identity." Any time a question asks how Palo Alto/Prisma ties policies to people (not locations or devices), the answer is User-ID - it's the identity glue across the entire NGFW and Prisma product family.

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