Cortex Data Lake (CDL) Embraces Its New Identity as Strata Logging Service (SLS)

This blog written by Cynthia Tu.

In today’s threat landscape, detecting and stopping complex cyber attacks requires advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning applied across all your enterprise’s data. Since its introduction in 2019, Cortex Data Lake has empowered network security administrators to effortlessly leverage AI-based innovations to ingest, store, and forward logs from Palo Alto Networks solutions.

As Palo Alto Networks continues to innovate, Cortex Data Lake (CDL) is rebranding to Strata Logging Service (SLS).

This rebranding represents more than just a name change; it signifies a strategic shift towards platformization within the Strata Network Security solutions and emphasizes our commitment to providing cutting-edge solutions that harness the power of data to enhance network security. Adopting the Strata branding ensures a more cohesive brand identity across our product portfolio.

Unveiling the Power of SLS

Strata Logging Service is a cloud-delivered, scalable, and secure log storage service that serves as the backbone of Palo Alto Network’s Strata Network Security Platform. It integrates logs from multiple sources, empowering the platform to stay ahead of adversaries, while enabling administrators to seamlessly ingest, store, and forward logs from Next-Generation Firewalls and Prisma Access.

SLS enables AI-based innovations in cybersecurity, with the industry’s only approach to normalizing and stitching together data from across the enterprise. SLS provides a holistic view of security posture, empowering organizations to detect and respond to threats more effectively and significantly improving the accuracy of security outcomes through trillions of multisource artifacts for analytics.

Some of the key benefits of SLS include:

Seamlessly simplifying and streamlining security operations by collecting, integrating, and normalizing security data
Effortlessly scaling without the need for local compute and storage
Stay ahead of evolving threats with AI and ML innovations

SLS represents a step forward in cybersecurity, offering organizations the tools they need to navigate an increasingly complex threat landscape with confidence.

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