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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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JayGolf by Community Team Member
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SLS is required for Ingesting NGFW logs?

Hello all, I have Pro per GB in my Cortex XDR and wish to gain more visablity in Network.Is it compulsory to have Strata Logging Service license in order to make this works?does Strata Logging Service license comes with my Firewall subscription or do I need to purchase separately? thanksCortex XDR

NGFW alerts to Cortex XDR

Hi team, I have a technical cuestion but could not find the answer in the documentation.I assume that to ingest NGFW alerts into Cortex a Pro Per GB license is needed. The cuestion is: Is there any way to configure the ingestion of the panw_ngfw_threat_raw dataset and not the panw_ngfw_traffic_raw one? Also, I would like to know how Pro Per GB l...

Process Explorer Triggering Cortex XDR Alert – Clarification Needed

Hi, When our system administration team uses Process Explorer (Microsoft version), Cortex XDR does not block the execution, but it generates alerts/incidents. Alert Details: Alert Name: Impair Defenses - 3645069560 Description: A tampering-capable driver with the original name procexp.sys was loaded on the system Source: XDR Agent Modul...

tlmarques by L4 Transporter
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XDR 7.6.1 seems to ignore exception

Hi, Cortex XDR Local Analysis Malware module stops a process called "ClientConsole.exe" (I guess it's a false positive) I've created a global exception for that issue and checked-in client but XDR still blocks this executable. In client log I read these rows: 2022/01/25T10:17:33.337+01:00 <Info> VALERIANIT [10128:11292 ] {trapsd:Ptu:Heartb...

Faber by L0 Member
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[Cortex] How to Block Multiple C2 IP Addresses Using Cortex XDR

Dear Everyone, My customer has a requirement: they would like the Cortex XDR Agent to detect and block multiple specified C2 IP addresses.I would like to ask if anyone has encountered a similar case or has any relevant experience to share. Currently, I am aware that this can be achieved by configuring Host Firewall Rules, which fulfills the requ...

bulk broker vm modifications

Hello, we did a tenant migration and for some reason a lot of broker VM settings are still pointing to the old one. We were wondering if it was possible to change the settings for it in bulk. Thank you for your inputs.

Liosan by L0 Member
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Cortex XDR Get Incident API function 'hosts':None

I'm currently testing the api for Cortex XDR, in particular the 'get_all_incidents' function under '/public_api/v1/incidents/get_incidents' url. Reference : https://docs-cortex.paloaltonetworks.com/r/Cortex-XDR-REST-API/Get-all-Incidents While testing, i realized while testing the 'hosts' field is empty, while in the reference page, it mention...

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Resolved! Delay in launching in-house apps

Our users have noticed there are delay in launching in-house developed apps (20+ apps) for the first time, the delay would take 10-20 seconds, once the app initally launched, the later, it would take 2-3 seconds to launch. The apps are located from shared folder z:\ and local c:\, the symptop is the same. 1) is there reason why this happened? I ...

Resolved! Help with fine tuning a query using $arguments and enclosing them in "quotes"

I have the below query, and my issue is at the end, when the user puts in the argument for $Serial it needs to have quotes around it. I think it's because the JSON object it is looking at comes in "quotes" and that's how it filters. In other queries when I use $user it put quotes in the query for me. If I write "$Serial" it doesn't allow the arg...

J.Suter by L2 Linker
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XQL Incident Count Doesn’t Match UI Incident Count — Same Date Range

Hi everyone, I’m working on a report using Cortex XQL to count incidents created between March 15 and March 31, 2025. Here’s the query I’m using: config timeframe between "2025-03-15 00:00:00" and "2025-03-31 23:59:59" | dataset = incidents | filter creation_time >= "2025-03-15 00:00:00" and creation_time < "2025-03-31 23:59:59" | fie...

Chamindu by L1 Bithead
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Cortex XDR Process Exclusions

We are deploying Cortex XDR to Windows servers initially in Report only mode and seeing memory Utiliziation on some servers ranging 500 MB- 1.2 GB. Is this considered to be normal? Advise we receive was that we don't need to exclude ceritan processes or file path similar to how Application vendors requested to be Whitelist. Does anyone have ex...

Namalw by L1 Bithead
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Code signed executables

A colleague raised a query with regards code signing certificates? For example if files are created, remodified and recompiled, the Sha256 will change every time, and these would need to be Whitelisted every time. The question asked is if we are able to code sign any executable with our own code signing certificate, can a whitelist rule be a...

custom scan with xdr agent for linux

Hi, i would like to know if it's possible to do a custom scan for a specific file like we can with the cortex agent for windows but i would like to do it for linux. I just see how to launch a global scan under linux but not a specific file. Thanks for your help Guillaume

Groche by L0 Member
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ERROR MESSAGE: This email is already registered with an account

Dear Team,I recently created some users, but I made some mistakes with data entry, so I deleted 1 user, leaving me with 2 users to be deleted. I would like to recreate the deleted user with the right information. But I'm experiencing some issues with error message "This mail is already registered with an account" Please i can i resolve this

A.Efobi by L0 Member
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