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title: Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud CWP
description: "## What is Prisma Cloud CWP? Palo Alto Prisma Cloud CWP (cloud workload protection) provides protection across hosts, containers, and serverless functions in the applications lifecycle. Prisma Cloud is available in both self-hosted and SaaS versions. ## Why Should You…"
url: "https://lucidum.io/docs/palo-alto-networks-prisma-cloud-cwp/"
updated: "2024-07-12"
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# Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud CWP

## What is Prisma Cloud CWP?

Palo Alto Prisma Cloud CWP (cloud workload protection) provides protection across hosts, containers, and serverless functions in the applications lifecycle. Prisma Cloud is available in both self-hosted and SaaS versions.

## Why Should You Use the Prisma Cloud CWP Connector?

The Prisma Cloud CWP connector provides visibility into the workload on your cloud assets. You can use this visibility to:

- ensure workloads and data are managed per your security policies
- find vulnerabilities quickly and remediate

## How Does This Connector Work?

Lucidum executes read-only requests to the Prisma Cloud CWP API and ingests only meta-data about Prisma Cloud CWP assets. Lucidum does not retrieve any data stored on your assets.

## Configuring the Connector in Lucidum

| **Field** | **Description** | **Example** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| URL | The URL of the Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud API | https://10.2.20.29 |
| User name | User name of an account with access to the Palo Alto Prisma Cloud APIs. | 8d875079-4f77-47d4-991f-5c30eef5733c |
| Password | Password for an account with access to the Palo Alto Prisma Cloud APIs. | ******************* |

## Source Documentation

### Required Permission

The account that Lucidum uses to access the API for Prisma CloudCWP must have at least this role

- Access User

[https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/prisma/prisma-cloud/30/prisma-cloud-compute-edition-admin/authentication/user_roles](https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/prisma/prisma-cloud/30/prisma-cloud-compute-edition-admin/authentication/user_roles)

### Creating the Access Key and Access Key Secret

[https://pan.dev/prisma-cloud/api/cwpp/access-api-saas/](https://pan.dev/prisma-cloud/api/cwpp/access-api-saas/)

[https://pan.dev/prisma-cloud/api/cwpp/post-authenticate/](https://pan.dev/prisma-cloud/api/cwpp/post-authenticate/)

### API Documentation

[https://pan.dev/prisma-cloud/api/cwpp/](https://pan.dev/prisma-cloud/api/cwpp/post-authenticate/)