Danielle and Sam check out the Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact study about Prisma Cloud, even though Sam would rather be memeing.

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Transcript: 

DANIELLE: Wow, wow wow wow. Big day for the Dev team. The Forrester Consulting study just released. 

The Total Economic Impact of Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud. 

SAM: That was that study about our security, right? 

DANIELLE: Yeah. They talked to five companies for their research—companies similar to ours! Oh—Forrester does research and consulting for tech and marketing companies, so Palo Alto Networks commissioned them to conduct the total— 

SAM: Yeah yeah yeah, that Total Economic Impact study. See the data for companies that use Prisma Cloud. Why did they do that? Seems like it takes a lot of time. 

DANIELLE: It was worth it, Sam. Just take a look at the study. 

SAM: What am I looking at. 

DANIELLE: It's the rundown of everything they analyzed. So there's a summary first, then details about cloud security for big companies just like ours. 

SAM: Obviously, that's how it would work, but I don't understand what all these numbers actually mean for us. 

DANIELLE: Okay, I'll run us through it…if you could just…hand those back… 

SAM: I could've figured it out… 

DANIELLE: Since you didn't, let's take it from the top. So they start by saying that this study was to figure out the financial impact Prisma Cloud might have, so— 

SAM: If it's worth the initial investment? 

DANIELLE: Exactly. The paper says that organizations that enabled Prisma Cloud can get a 276% return on investment over three years!  

SAM: So almost three times as much back—that’s wild! 

DANIELLE: Mhm, it definitely streamlined my dev processes too. It says DevOps efforts to fix vulnerabilities and misconfigurations improved by 60%. 

SAM: It really let me not have to be on guard all the time if errors popped up. I got to go home earlier and create a bunch of memes. 

DANIELLE: What kind of memes? 

SAM: The hilarious kind. So you think it all worked out huh? 

DANIELLE: I know it definitely did for me. It was a lot smoother to get security guidance at the same time I was developing, instead of waiting for everything to be compiled. 

SAM: It did give us in security a lot more control over the data, so we didn't have as many surprises. 

DANIELLE: It was shorter when something did need investigation too, right? 

SAM: Way shorter. We could sort through all the data with Prisma instead of having to audit it ourselves. 

DANIELLE: Did you have to do a lot to get it going? 

SAM: It all happened right out of the box. We set some security parameters and just let it do its thing.  

DANIELLE: All these amazing stats geez. I don’t know why we took so long to get Prisma Cloud.  

SAM: I didn't think a program could come in that would be smarter than what I was already doing. 

DANIELLE: You think you're smarter than a lot of things. 

SAM: Because I am Danielle! But when we set up Prisma Cloud, I thought it was crazy that they had 680 security rules right out of the box. Even I couldn't think of that many, so I'm sure even just the default rules caught a lot of stuff we might have missed otherwise. 

DANIELLE: On my end in Dev, we could see if we were breaking the rules in real time and adjust accordingly. Just so simple. It was all right there for us. 

SAM: So…we just turn it on and let it run? 

DANIELLE: Yeah, and keep pumping our work out. I don’t want to go back to how we did things before. My workflow is so much simpler now. 

SAM: What about all the data? 

DANIELLE: We keep it in our pockets. If anybody asks us why we want to keep things how we're doing them, we can back it up with all these numbers. 

SAM: So, what's next? Besides me blowing up social media later? 

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