Hey everyone, new here. Been evaluating cloud security tools and Prisma Cloud keeps coming up, especially for government work.
Our team is starting a FedRAMP Moderate authorization process. The evidence collection part looks... intense. I've seen Prisma's marketing about compliance, but I'm skeptical of buzzwords. Has anyone here actually used it specifically to gather the continuous monitoring evidence for FedRAMP? I'm curious about the real workflow: Was it just out-of-the-box reports, or did you have to build a ton of custom rules? Did it actually save time, or create more work?
I just wrapped up a FedRAMP Moderate authorization where we used Prisma Cloud as a primary evidence source. Your skepticism is right on point - it's not a magic button. The out-of-the-box FedRAMP compliance reports gave us a starting framework, maybe 40% of what we needed. The real work was mapping those generic findings to our specific system security plan controls.
We built a fair number of custom rules, especially for asset management (CM-*) and configuration management (CA-*). The time sink wasn't the rules though, it was structuring the export and audit trail to match our POA&M format. Where it saved manual effort was in continuous monitoring for vulnerability scanning (RA-5) and unauthorized change detection. It automatically captured the evidence snapshots we used to show a steady state.
So net time saved? Yes, but only after about three months of tuning and aligning it with our internal compliance processes. It'll create more work upfront if you expect it to be fully automated.
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