Next-Gen CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) by Palo Alto Networks is a SASE-native cloud security solution that automatically discovers and secures SaaS applications while protecting sensitive data across users and locations. This solution provides proactive visibility and real-time data protection, monitoring and controlling thousands of SaaS applications through App-ID technology. Integrated into SASE architecture, it offers comprehensive data protection, compliance controls, and threat prevention capabilities through API-based protection for sanctioned apps, inline machine learning models for threat detection, and Natural Language Processing for data analysis. The solution scans all traffic, ports, and protocols to automatically discover new applications, implements ML-powered enterprise DLP, detects misconfigurations, and provides protection against insider threats and compromised accounts.