Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks delivers comprehensive endpoint security, integrating well with other systems to offer robust threat detection and real-time protection through AI-driven analytics.
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks offers advanced endpoint protection and threat detection through AI and behavior-based analytics. Its user-friendly design simplifies integration with firewalls, delivering multi-layered protection with low resource consumption. Valued for policy management, USB control, and incident correlation, Cortex XDR enhances threat management and real-time threat hunting capabilities. However, users note challenges with third-party integration, reporting, and dashboard automation. Agent performance across operating systems and memory consumption are areas for improvement, alongside reducing false positives and simplifying endpoint management and setup.
What features does Cortex XDR offer?
- Behavior-Based Detection: Analyzes user behavior to identify suspicious activities.
- AI Analytics: Utilizes AI for accurate threat detection and response.
- Real-Time Protection: Provides immediate defense against threats.
- Policy Management: Allows customization of security policies across endpoints.
- USB Control: Regulates USB device access for added security.
- Incident Correlation: Connects and analyzes various security events for better response.
- Firewall Integration: Seamlessly works with firewalls for enhanced security.
- Machine Learning Capabilities: Continuously improves threat detection precision.
What benefits should be considered in reviews?
- Low Resource Consumption: Efficient security functions without taxing system resources.
- Multi-Layered Protection: Comprehensive security across multiple attack vectors.
- User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive design for easier management.
- Enhanced Threat Management: Identifies and mitigates threats effectively.
- Real-Time Threat Hunting: Proactively searches for and mitigates potential threats.
Cortex XDR is crucial in industries requiring robust endpoint protection, such as finance, healthcare, and technology. It supports malware detection, behavioral analysis, and ransomware mitigation across endpoints, including remote work environments, providing comprehensive threat visibility and security policy management. The solution's integration with firewalls and specialized industry requirements enhances security posture in diverse operational settings.
Crystal Eye XDR
Extend, Detection and Response
Crystal Eye XDR (Extended Detection & Response) protects, detects and responds to threats across your whole organisation, all from a single unified platform. It secures your organisation from the cloud to the endpoint with a range of integrated security controls.
Problems
- Security incidents are becoming more complex while compliance obligations are becoming harder to meet.
- Organisations are struggling with too many products from different vendors which aren’t integrated together.
- Companies need to be able to quickly identify real threats from all the noise and then initiate rapid response procedures to minimise business impact.
Solution
- XDR solves these problems by avoiding the complexity of configuring and monitoring separate security systems.
- XDR offers a single unified platform that delivers security protection, threat detection and incident response across your whole organisation.
Benefits
- Reduce the risk of a security incident.
- Reduce time to detect and respond to an event.
- Reduce the cost of securing your business.
XDR – Extended Detection & Response
- XDR involves the collection and correlation of event data from endpoint, network and cloud sensors to identify real threats anywhere in your environment and automatically trigger a coordinated response to secure your business.
- The first fully-integrated detection and response platform is ready to go out-of-the-box, so it delivers a consistent level of security without the complexity of integrating products from multiple vendors.
- Our network-based and cloud-based sensors (Crystal Eye XDR) deliver Network Detection & Response (NDR), in combination with our host-based sensors (XDR Endpoints) deliver End-Point Detection & Response (EDR) which all work together to deliver Extended Detection & Response (XDR).
- Crystal Eye Orchestrate is our centralised management console which takes care of the service delivery and also acts as a data lake to collect all the data for correlation and response coordination. This is a significantly simpler process due to the standard data format and shared data storage used across the Crystal Eye products, which avoids the laborious task of normalising and correlating data from different technologies.
More than SIEM
- XDR avoids the complex integration required with Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) and breaks down the silos between different systems by having a single data store for all events.
- Where SIEM focuses on pulling the data together into events, XDR has the added benefit of pro-active and automated rapid response to stop threats in their tracks before real damage occurs. XDR goes a step further to provide advanced threat detection with research analysis labs to support defensive efforts.
Integrated SOAR
- Our XDR solution has integrated Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) processes which allow you to automate responses to low-risk threats and coordinate responses to high-risk threats with the relevant resources.
- These capabilities are typically not accessible for most organisations, but our integrated SOAR approach provides a comprehensive, cost-effective response solution available to businesses of any size. Our automated incident response process gets executed immediately when a breach occurs and is significantly cheaper than alternative options.
