The Palo Alto Networks Certified Cloud Security Engineer (PCCSE) certification validates the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to onboard, deploy, and administer all aspects of Prisma Cloud. PCCSE covers Prisma Cloud, Prisma Cloud Enterprise, and Prisma Cloud Compute. It showcases an individual's knowledge of the Prisma Cloud platform applications, data, and the entire cloud native technology stack−throughout the development lifecycle and across multi- and hybrid cloud environments.

Target Audience: Anyone interested in demonstrating knowledge, skill, and abilities with Prisma Cloud, including cloud security, customer success, DevOps, cloud support, professional services and Appsec engineers, cybersecurity architects, and team leads.

Level: Intermediate

The PCCET certification is the first of its kind. It is aligned with the NIST/NICE (National Institute of Standards and Technology/National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education) workforce framework, designed to cover foundational knowledge of industry-recognized cybersecurity and network security concepts as well as various cutting-edge advancements across all Palo Alto Networks technologies.

Target Audience: The PCCET certification is designed for students, the emergent workforce, skilled labor trying to transition into cybersecurity, hiring managers looking to hire entry-level technical help, technical professionals, educators, and any non-technical individuals interested in validating comprehensive knowledge on current cybersecurity tenets.

Level: Introductory

The PCSAE certification validates the knowledge and skills required to develop, analyze, and administer the Cortex XSOAR security orchestration, automation, and response platform with native threat intelligence management. It validates that engineers can correctly understand the utility of out-of-the-box and custom playbooks and integrations. They are also able to identify customer processes that can be automated through XSOAR, and they know how to customize XSOAR to reduce the mean time to resolution leveraging the rest of their security products.

Target Audience: Anyone interested in demonstrating knowledge, skills, and abilities using Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR functionality, including customers, partners, system engineers, analysts, and administrators.

Level: Intermediate