Onam vs Prisma Cloud
Prisma Cloud usually arrives as part of a wider Palo Alto conversation, which changes the evaluation. If you are weighing it against us, these seven questions apply to both.
How to read this page. We do not make claims about Prisma Cloud’s product here. Products change monthly and a page full of second-hand assertions about someone else ages into a lie. What follows is seven questions worth asking any cloud security platform, answered for Onam only — then, plainly, where Prisma Cloud is strong and where we are not. Ask Prisma Cloud the same seven.
The seven questions
Our answers. Put the same list in front of Prisma Cloud.
- 1
How many clouds get first-class treatment?
Seven, on the same footing: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud and Kubernetes. 11,433 posture rule definitions across 549 cloud services — the all-cloud totals, not a per-cloud figure. Ask any vendor for the per-cloud breakdown rather than the headline number; that is where first-class and box-ticked diverge.
- 2
Is the analysis cross-cloud, or per-cloud silos side by side?
One security graph. Every engine writes the same finding contract into one store, so a path can start in one cloud and end in another. Correlation is a property of the data model here, not a report generated over separate databases.
- 3
Agentless — and how long to first finding?
Agentless and read-only. Nothing is installed in your workloads and nothing is written back to your accounts. The trade-off is stated in the trust whitepaper: read-only scanning cannot see inside a running process.
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How does it prioritise — severity labels or business impact?
By verified attack path, then priced with FAIR using named external inputs. A ranked list of criticals tells you what is broken; a priced path tells you which chain reaches data and what it would cost. Ask to see the arithmetic, not just the ranking.
- 5
Does it catch toxic combinations across engines?
That is the whole design. The chain that reaches your data is usually four ordinary findings in a row, none of which any single rule would flag. Composition across posture, identity, data, workload and SaaS happens on one graph rather than by joining exports.
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Is compliance evidence continuous or point-in-time?
A control is evaluated once and reported against 78 compliance frameworks, continuously, with each gap connected to the path it sits on. Evidence for an audit — your auditor still decides what satisfies a control.
- 7
Does coverage span code to runtime?
Posture, attack paths, identity (CIEM), data, containers and Kubernetes, SaaS posture across 8 platforms, and cloud detection and response — 29 engines on one graph rather than six products stitched together.
Where Prisma Cloud is genuinely strong
A comparison page that finds nothing good to say about the other side is marketing, not evaluation. These are real advantages and you should weigh them.
- Breadth across a large security portfolio, and one commercial relationship covering much of it
- Deep network and firewall heritage that most cloud-native vendors do not have
- Existing enterprise agreements that can make procurement dramatically simpler
- Global support and professional services at a scale a startup cannot match
The honest gap
The honest gap: if you already run Palo Alto across the estate, the consolidation argument runs in their favour, not ours. We are one platform for cloud security, not a portfolio, and we do not pretend that is the same thing.
Do not take our word for any of it
Run a read-only scan against one account and tell us whether the attack paths we surface are real. If they are noise, we want to hear that — it is more useful to us than a signature. That is the same offer we make to everyone, and it is the only claim on this page you can check yourself today.
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Last reviewed 15 August 2026. Onam’s figures come from our published fact set; the strengths above are general market observations, not claims about Prisma Cloud’s current capabilities. If anything here is wrong or out of date — including anything about Prisma Cloud — tell us at hello@onamsecurity.com and we will correct it.