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# Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Compute (formerly Twistlock) Detection Strategy
## Product Overview
Prisma Cloud Compute, formerly known as Twistlock, delivers cloud workload protection (CWPP) for modern enterprises, providing protection across hosts, containers, and serverless deployments in any cloud, throughout the application lifecycle. Prisma Cloud Compute is cloud-native and API-enabled, protecting all your workloads regardless of their underlying compute technology or the cloud in which they run. Support for Prisma Cloud Compute is provided through the Expel MDR for Cloud offering.
## Detection Strategy for Cloud Integrations
### Detection
Our cloud security detection strategy focuses on two common signal types at the control plane and resource levels: authentication events and API events. In limited cases, we also ingest certain data plane events such as network activity. We do this by integrating directly with cloud providers as well as cloud security service providers to gain a complete view of your cloud footprint.
We consume these events through a mix of raw log analysis and security alert processing, which are then run through our detection engine to look for signs of post-exploitation activity. When a threat is detected, our automated response bot, Ruxie, takes action by enriching evidence fields with first- and third-party threat intelligence. Additional Ruxie actions query a wide span of technologies in order to directly arm analysts with key pieces of investigative information and related events.
### Response
In addition to verbose evidence collection for cloud alerts, cloud technologies are useful for triaging SaaS and identity alerts as well. User activities within the cloud providers, along with related alerts for anomalous indicators, help analysts gain a full picture of the activity that occurred within a session.
To learn more about our overall approach to detection strategy, see [About Detection Strategy](/workbench-reference/detections/about-detection-strategy.md).
## What We Support for Prisma Cloud Compute
To see a comprehensive list of the most up-to-date Expel detection rules, vendor detection rules, opt-in detections, and available DUETs (**d**id yo**u** **e**xpect **t**his) that we support for Prisma Cloud Compute, you can visit the [Detections page](https://workbench.expel.io/tools/detections/all?filter=%7B%22supportedTech%22%3A%7B%22is%22%3A%5B%22prisma_cloud_compute%3A1.0.0%22%5D%7D%7D) in Workbench or ask your Sales or Support rep for the most recent download.
| **Supported event log sources** | |
| ------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Prisma Cloud Compute detection rules support** | Yes. |
| **Detection rules written by Expel** | No. |
| **Investigative support through Workbench** | Yes. We are able to take the following investigative actions to gather data for triage and investigation of events.
- Query Host
- Query Container
|
| **Hunting support** | Yes. Hunting is available for this integration to customers who purchase this option. Contact your Sales or Support rep for help understanding the hypotheses and objectives for each hunting technique. For a full list of techniques by integration, see [Hunting Techniques](broken://pages/RmMQK8aDsnWXvU182utw). |
## Additional Details and Common Questions
### Console Access
A vendor alert does not typically include all of the contextual timeline activity surrounding the event of interest. Because this integration does not allow us to get all necessary data via the API, we will ask you for a certain level of console access during onboarding.
The level of access that we require is meant to support essential triage and research activities, and to help us determine the vector and extent of attacker activity for an identified threat. At minimum, we will ask for visibility into alert data, timeline events recorded, and live response/real time response shell (if applicable).
### DUET
A DUET (**d**id yo**u** **e**xpect **t**his) rule flags certain events as needing an immediate verification or notification, and bypasses the normal internal event triage process. The events subject to DUET rules contain behaviors that are not typically indicative of true security incidents, as they are related to policy violations or *potential* risk.
There are a number of workflows that a DUET may follow. When enabled, the activity will be flagged for investigation and will be routed to you (rather than to us) to take a specified first action. To see the specific DUET rules currently supported for this integration, visit the [Detections page](https://workbench.expel.io/tools/detections/all).
### Use Cases Not Supported
| **Use Case** | **Description** | **Reason** |
| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Kubernetes Incident Category | Alert polling, triage and investigation of incidents with the category of “kubernetes” | Incidents surfaced in this category can require specific training and expertise in advanced Kubernetes security concepts. Therefore, this support isn't in scope at this time. Speak with your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to get the latest roadmap updates on Kubernetes support. |
| customRule Incident Category | Alert polling, triage and investigation of incidents with the category of “customRule” | In general, this category isn't supported because of the wide variety of security concepts and use cases this category may service. Speak with your Customer Success Manager (CSM) if you have a customRule use case you want to see supported by Expel. Requests are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. |
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