What is Palo Alto Cortex XDR?

To stay ahead of fast-moving threats, you need AI-powered endpoint security that continuously learns new attack techniques. Cortex XDR™ offers protection that blocks all malware, exploits and fileless attacks to keep your endpoints safe

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Awards & Recognition

Palo Alto Cortex XDR won the following awards in the Endpoint Detection & Response category

Palo Alto Cortex XDR Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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93 Likeliness to Recommend

91 Plan to Renew

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Since last award

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Palo Alto Cortex XDR?

0% Negative
15% Neutral
85% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Efficient Service
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Includes Product Enhancements

Feature Ratings

Average 90

Whitelisting Blacklisting

97

Continuous Monitoring

95

Machine Learning

92

Agent Efficiency

91

IOC Consumption

91

Intrusion Detection Prevention

90

Behavioural Analytics

87

IOC Tools

86

Task Prioritization

84

Automated Threat Response

83

Malware Identification Accuracy

82

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 88

Breadth of Features

92

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

92

Quality of Features

92

Availability and Quality of Training

90

Vendor Support

90

Business Value Created

87

Ease of Implementation

87

Ease of Customization

86

Ease of Data Integration

86

Usability and Intuitiveness

85

Ease of IT Administration

84

Palo Alto Cortex XDR Reviews

Nasseer Q.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Feature Rich and Reliable

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Palo Alto Cortex XDR from other similar products?

I have been using Cortex XDR from last two years and the results from it has been anazing. Below are some of unique features of Cortex xdr that stands out from rest of products. 1. It is called XDR that is Xtended detection and response means it can take data from NGFW, third party firewalls ,syslog servers etc and use this data for analysis and threat hunting. In nutshell cortex Cortex xdr has more visibility over the data and thus can provide better protection. 2. Cortex Xdr has causality chain for incident analysis that helps in easy understing and analysis of alerts. 3. Cortex XdR has lot of third party app integration

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ability to create custom BIOC rules where we can create alerts based on known behaviour of the application,file etc

What do you dislike most about this product?

Frequently content updates that sometime cause bugs in the environment.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are planning to use Cortex Xdr then go for Pro per Endpoint license as you can use Pro features that can very helpful in detection and response.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

Tharusha D.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Easy to use, but a bit pricey.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Palo Alto Cortex XDR from other similar products?

0 Day threats are being identified at a high rate compared to other similar products.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

cortex XDR gives complete prevention stack for ransomware, malware, exploits for the entire network.

What do you dislike most about this product?

nothing to dislike.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

highly recommend this product but bit pricy.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Raven P.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

XDR Redefined

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Palo Alto Cortex XDR from other similar products?

I like the fact that Cortex XDR integrated their endpoint detection (Traps) to the whole platform. This adds lateral movement protection across endpoint, network and cloud.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Administrator friendly! Provides great assistance to your security analysts. Our productivity is at high rate because of Cortex XDR.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Setup with other Palo Alto products sometimes takes time

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

As Palo Alto is a leader in firewall, I believe they are a leader in incident and response as well so buying their product is definitely helpful.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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