Create Traffic Objects for Zone-Based Security

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Create Traffic Objects for Zone-Based Security

Create traffic objects to specify cloud entities within specific clusters or VPC endpoints to enforce customized security policy rules.

This page helps you to create a traffic object with specific cloud assets and map the traffic object to a zone. Attach the zone to a security policy to enforce the policy rules on the AI traffic sourced from this zone.

This feature is part of the AI Runtime Security licensing. The AI traffic from the zone is routed to the AI Runtime Security instance for inspection.

Where Can I Use This?	What Do I Need?
AI Runtime Security	Deploy AI Runtime Security instance AI Security profile Helm

Prerequisites

Install a Kubernetes Application with Helm as shown in the Configure SCM to Protect VM Workloads and Kubernetes Clusters page.
Use the clusterid value from your <deployment-folder>/architecture/helm/values.yaml file to create the traffic object.

To create a policy object of type Traffic objects:

Log in to SCM.
Select Manage→ Configuration → NGFW and Prisma Access.
From the top menu, select Objects → Traffic Objects.
Select Add Traffic Object.
1. Enter a Name for the Traffic Object.
2. Write a Description.
3. Select the Type as K8s Cluster ID or VPC Endpoint ID.
  To get the VPC Endpoint ID, go to AWS Console and search for VPC. Click on Endpoints, find your endpoint, and copy the ID from the "Endpoint ID" column. Refer to Create and View NGFW Endpoints.
4. In the Traffic Object ID, enter the K8s Cluster ID or the VPC Endpoint ID.
  If the type is K8s Cluster ID, the traffic object ID values can be between 1-2048.
  If the type is VPC Endpoint ID, the Traffic Object ID format is:
  vpc-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (with 17 alphanumeric characters)
5. Select the existing ingress Zone for the traffic object or create a new zone.
6. Select the Router. Refer to the section on how to configure a Logical Router.
Select Save to create the traffic object.

This creates a sub-interface using the zone and the Traffic Object ID and we map the sub-interface to the zone. This zone is used to define granular security policies on the cloud assets within a zone.

Ensure that the traffic object is attached to a zone within the security policy (Manage → Configuration → NGFW and Prisma Access → Security Services → Security Policy). You can associate traffic objects with either a new zone and attach it to a security policy or with an existing zone that is already part of a security policy.