SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Nov. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo
Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today
introduced Cortex XDR™ 2.0 — an advancement of the industry's only
detection and response platform that runs on fully integrated
endpoint, network and cloud data. As the market's first and leading
XDR product, Cortex XDR 2.0 continues to extend the category
definition with the addition of third-party data for analytics and
investigations, while unifying prevention, detection, investigation
and response in one platform experience for unrivaled security and
operational efficiency.
"With Cortex XDR, we set out to eliminate the blind spots
created by disjointed products and help organizations stop the most
sophisticated attacks through deep analytics and enhanced
visibility. In nine months, we've enabled organizations to reduce
alert volumes by 50X and speed investigation time by 8X, ultimately
filtering out the noise and allowing analysts to focus on the most
critical threats," said Lee Klarich,
chief product officer at Palo Alto Networks. "With the addition of
third-party data, a unified platform experience and new endpoint
security improvements in Cortex XDR 2.0, we are further enhancing
the power of the Cortex XDR platform and extending its prevention,
detection, investigation and response capabilities across the
customer's entire environment."
Palo Alto Networks unveiled significant platform advancements
that help organizations defend their enterprise with unrivaled data
and deep analytics:
- Open to third-party data: Cortex XDR's patented
behavioral analytics capabilities have been extended to logs
collected from third-party firewalls, enabling detection across
multi-vendor environments while integrating third-party firewall
alerts into a unified incident view.
- Seamless platform experience: Prevention,
detection, investigation and response capabilities have been
unified into a single platform, with a complete rebuild of the
Traps™ management service into Cortex XDR. The new management
console has end-to-end support for all capabilities previously part
of Traps and Cortex XDR, spanning endpoint policy management,
security events review and endpoint log analysis melded with
detection, investigation and response.
- AI-driven malware prevention: Cortex XDR's new machine
learning-driven local analysis engine is customized for continuous
learning and prevention. Powered by the world's most expansive
training set from WildFire®, the engine delivers the
industry's highest malware detection rates and includes a unique
agile framework for rapid model updates to stay ahead of attackers'
evolving techniques.
- New device control capability: The new Device Control
module, the first in a series of new endpoint protection platform
modules, will give organizations granular USB access management on
the endpoint to prevent malware and data loss caused by
unsanctioned devices.
Customer and Analyst Quotes
- "As a small team, we desperately needed a tool that filtered
through all the noise to help us scale," said Ryan Kramer, enterprise network architect for
the State of North Dakota. "What
we're seeing with Cortex XDR is exactly that. It's helping us
filter out irrelevant alerts and other noise while elevating
critical alerts that give us new threat intelligence we didn't have
before."
- "A major contributing factor in the speed of threat detection
and response is the amount of time it takes to assemble alert and
activity data from endpoint, network, cloud and other security
controls, which are traditionally spread across various point
products," said Dave Gruber, senior
analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group. "An XDR approach
automates this process, correlating the data in one place to give
analysts immediate context to understand the scope of the attack
and drive faster investigation and remediation."
CortexTM is the industry's most comprehensive
product suite for security operations, empowering enterprises with
best-in-class detection, investigation, automation and response
capabilities. To learn how to move security operations forward,
please join us for a live discussion on December 10, 2019.
Availability
Cortex XDR 2.0 will be available in
December. Cortex XDR third-party logs and alert ingestion are
available for select third-party products now. For more
information, please visit
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-xdr.
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks,
the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric
future with technology that is transforming the way people and
organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity
partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help
address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous
innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial
intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By
delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing
ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens
of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile
devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more
secure than the one before. For more information, visit
www.paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks, Cortex, Cortex XDR, Traps, WildFire and the
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