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Cortex XDR allows you to rapidly detect and respond to threats across your networks, endpoints, and clouds. It assists SOC analysts by allowing them to view ALL the alerts from all PANW products in one place, telling the full story of what actually happened in seconds and allows seamless response.
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Cortex XDR Discussions
Cortex XDR allows you to rapidly detect and respond to threats across your networks, endpoints, and clouds. It assists SOC analysts by allowing them to view ALL the alerts from all PANW products in one place, telling the full story of what actually happened in seconds and allows seamless response.
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Cortex XDR allows you to rapidly detect and respond to threats across your networks, endpoints, and clouds. It assists SOC analysts by allowing them to view ALL the alerts from all PANW products in one place, telling the full story of what actually happened in seconds and allows seamless response.

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Detect user who moved a folder using XDR and XQL

Hi everyone, I need help identifying which user moved a specific folder from a network share to another location. The only information I currently have is: The old folder path (e.g., \\server\share\oldfolder) The new folder path (e.g., \\server\users\john\newfolder) Access to Cortex XDR endpoint data only — no file server logs or QRadar correla...

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Cortex XDR "The target location already contains a file named" problem

Hi, I have a problem after installing the XDR Cortex agent. Windows 10,11. When trying to copy any file to the network share (Synology), which was created on the workstation after the agent installation, I receive the message "The destination already has a file..." For some reason, the system sees a file with the same name in the folder with a ...

Full disk access requirement on macos agent

Hi team A couple of questions here: 1) Is full disk access required for agents running on macOS Sonoma and Sequoia? 2) What is the meaning of "Requires full disk access: False" in the "cytool status" output? (screenshot attached)The endpoint we ran this command on showed as "Fully protected" through the console. It is running 8.7.1.2855 on...

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Resolved! Cortex XDR file quarantine

Hi Team, i have two general questions, 1-can i delete a file from multiple endpoints but with different paths from the action centre? 2- i understand that cortex can quarantine a malicious file but is there an option to delete it without my interference?

O.Asha by • L0 Member
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Excluding Pentera Box

I am looking to make an exclusion or suppression of some sort for alerts generated by our Pentera Security Validation Tool. I have a SSL certificate loaded into Pentera so I can filter by that certificate if I can. However for the Vulnerability Scans with Pentera I cant use the SSL cert or any other identifier. Just trying to keep down the noise...

Configuring Exceptions for Different Modules

Hello guys I need to add exceptions for Windows HyperV servers.... and I have 2 questions: Question 1 I need to add exceptions base on extensions...*.bin, *.vhdx, *.avhd.... etc, and exceptions base on process for instance Vmms.exe, VMwp.exe.... etc... Can I configure the both types of exceptions and apply to the unique Profile or Policy...

dhervasg by • L0 Member
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Problems updating the agent

Hello colleagues! I'm having trouble updating my agents to versions 8.7 and 8.8. The current versions are 8.5 and 8.6. When performing the update, the following error appears: "The content package was faulty or could not be downloaded." Checking the retrival support files, the installation log shows the following: "Upgrade state: Not Exe...

C.Labra by • L0 Member
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content update issues on XDR 7.9CE

Hi everyone. Have anyone had issues with 7.9CE version about the content updates? I mean, the agents are not downloading the CUs. I even tried to install the agent on a win 7 VM and it installs indeed but doesn't download content updates. It is weird because I can even access via live terminal and execute scripts via interactive mode. i tri...

MarcoMJ by • L1 Bithead
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User Message on IOC trigger

Hi, We have enabled user notifications in agent profile settings, when an event like malware detection occurs it is displayed to the user immediately. However, it does not show a notification for an IOC. Can we make a message appear for an IOC event ? Any help would be appreciated. Regards,

Toutrial: Detecting Tor Traffic in XSIAM

Hi Everyone, Some members in the community have recently been exploring ways to detect Tor traffic within their environments. I’ve spent some time working on a solution to this challenge, and I wanted to turn that work into a dedicated post so more people can benefit from it. Why This Matters ? Detecting communication with Tor exit nodes gi...

A.Elzedy by • L2 Linker
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Find USB mounted storage devices on Windows and macOS

Hi All, looking for some help here. We've been using a query a colleague wrote to find computers with USB's mounted. This is the query: // Description: Show drive mount activity dataset = xdr_data | filter event_type = ENUM.MOUNT | alter mount_point = action_mount_device_info -> storage_device_mount_point | alter storage_device_class_name...

Repeated False Incidents with Unknown Verdicts

Hi everyone, I’m currently facing an issue with Cortex XDR where I regularly receive incidents flagged as suspicious, This particular one shows: WF (WildFire) Verdict: Unknown VT (VirusTotal): 0/64 detections Every week, I keep seeing similar incidents, often related to legitimate services or vendors (e.g., Tata CLiQ Luxury in this case)...

Resolved! Correlation Rules that detect tor browser

Hello, We have decided to create a correlation rule in Cortex XDR to detect employees using the Tor Browser. However, based on our observations, it is possible to access the Tor Browser through a redirect from the Brave application, which is currently not being detected. We kindly ask for your assistance in reviewing the correlation rule we’ve c...

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