Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud API Security vs Sonrai Cloud Permissions Firewall

Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud API Security discovers, ranks, and protects APIs across cloud environments. It can find and validate APIs across gateways, workloads, and cloud environments, including shadow, zombie, and unmanaged APIs. Configuration and traffic context inform risk rankings based on severity and potential business impact. Risk insights cover internet exposure, sensitive data transmission, weak authentication, missing encryption, and specification drift. The product describes real-time protection against OWASP API Top 10 threats, including injection, authentication bypass, and data exposure; teams can use monitor or blocking modes. Agentless integrations are listed for AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM, GCP Apigee, and Kong. Linux workload protection uses an agent and is marked Beta. Teams can import OpenAPI specifications to check live traffic for deviations and scan for misconfigurations or vulnerabilities. Azure APIM integration requires the Data Collection add-on and a running Azure APIM service. Cortex CLI scans require an OpenAPI file and Java 11 or later, while Web and API Security requires the Runtime Security add-on. Pricing is on request; the product page offers a demo request.

Sonrai Cloud Permissions Firewall monitors privileged permissions for identities across AWS, Azure and GCP. It covers human users, service principals, agents and managed identities, removing sensitive permissions that are no longer used, quarantining inactive role assignments and enforcing default deny. Permissions on Demand routes restricted-access requests through approval in ChatOps and updates the policy afterward. The web service uses read-only, top-level cloud access to collect metadata and does not install cloud agents. Onboarding occurs at the AWS, Azure or GCP organisation level, bringing in every account, subscription or project; controls can then be applied selectively. Sonrai describes unified enforcement and one audit trail across the three clouds. Available options include integrations with Slack, Teams and email, enterprise SSO, just-in-time access, third-party access lockdown, identity quarantine and other remediation controls. Support is provided by email, phone and chat. A 14-day trial requires a business email. Plans list $150 a month for 10–50 accounts and $15,000 a year for startup pricing; 50+ accounts use custom pricing.