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Palo Alto Prisma Access Zero Trust

Guides setup of Palo Alto Prisma Access cloud zero trust access, with a Python audit script that calls its management API.

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mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
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Apache-2.0
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3 files

What it does

When installed, the agent can walk you through deploying Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access, a cloud service that gives remote users and branch offices secure access to company apps instead of a traditional VPN. It covers the steps in the skill: setting up mobile user and remote network connections, deploying ZTNA Connectors for internal apps, writing security policies, defining device posture checks (such as requiring disk encryption or a security agent), and rolling out the GlobalProtect client. It also includes a Python script that can connect to the Prisma Access API using OAuth credentials to list configuration items for auditing.

Great for

  • Network and security engineers planning a move from VPN to Prisma Access SASE
  • Teams that already use Palo Alto firewalls and want to add cloud ZTNA through Strata Cloud Manager
  • Security architects drafting zero trust access policies and device posture rules

Skip it if

  • Small organizations (the skill itself says under 200 users simpler ZTNA tools suffice), where the enterprise licensing cost is hard to justify
  • Anyone expecting a turnkey deployment: the examples use placeholder hostnames, IP ranges and IDs that must be replaced, and the audit script needs live tenant credentials
  • Running the audit script against production tenants without review, since it authenticates with client secrets and sends requests to a vendor cloud API

Try asking

  • “Walk me through setting up Prisma Access mobile user access with Okta SAML authentication”
  • “Draft a security policy that only lets Engineering reach our source code repository from managed devices with CrowdStrike”
  • “Write HIP profile checks requiring BitLocker or FileVault encryption and a minimum OS patch level”
  • “Explain how to deploy a ZTNA Connector for internal apps and what resources it needs”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Palo Alto Prisma Access Zero TrustInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 3 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    deploying-palo-alto-prisma-access-zero-trust.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip deploying-palo-alto-prisma-access-zero-trust.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip deploying-palo-alto-prisma-access-zero-trust.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Review scripts/agent.py before running it, and use a read-only or test tenant with a narrowly scoped API client first
  • Treat all IP ranges, hostnames, group names and TSG IDs in the examples as placeholders and validate them against your own environment and vendor documentation
  • Confirm current product licensing, feature names and syntax with Palo Alto's official documentation, since the skill's details are not verified against live product versions

What's inside

  • references/api-reference.md
  • scripts/agent.py
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.