Palo Alto Networks 10 must haves for Detection and Response

1. Visibility Across Data Sources
To reduce the risk of a successful attack, you need a holistic approach to detection and response that eliminates blind spots, increases accuracy, and streamlines investigations.

2. Best-in-Class Attack Prevention

To shield your endpoints, you need ironclad protection that blocks known and unknown malware, file-less attacks and exploits.

3. Simplified Investigations
Today’s siloed security tools generate endless alerts with limited context. To reduce response times, security tools must provide a complete picture of incidents with rich investigative details.

Cortex XDR simplifies investigations by automatically revealing the root cause, sequence of events and threat intelligence details of alerts from any source.

4. Analytics and Machine Learning
You need a comprehensive set of machine learning and analytics techniques to stay ahead of rapidly evolving threats.

Cortex XDR provides:

• AI-driven local analysis to block malware
• Behavioural analytics to detect intrusions and active attacks
• Global analytics to improve detection accuracy and coverage

5. Co-ordinated Response
Your team needs integrated and flexible response options to shut down attacks quickly. Cortex XDR lets your security team instantly stop the spread of malware, isolate endpoints, run scripts, and even restore endpoints without re-imaging devices. With Search and Destroy, you can even sweep across all endpoints in real time to find and delete malware.

 

6. A Flexible Suite of Endpoint Protection Features
You need an easy way to identify and prioritise endpoint risks, reduce your attack surface, and stop data loss.

• Vulnerability Assessment - Get real-time visibility into vulnerability exposure and current patch levels across all your endpoints.
• Host Firewall - Centrally manage inbound and outbound communications on your endpoints from the Cortex XDR management console
• Disk Encryption - Apply encryption or decryption policies on your endpoints and view lists of all encrypted drives.
• Device Control - Monitor and granularly control USB access to protect your endpoints from data loss and malware

7. Independent Testing and Industry Validation
When choosing a detection and response solution, you should always review third-party testing, analyst validation, and customer testimonials.

Cortex XDR, the industry’s first extended detection and response platform, has achieved exceptional test results and garnered praise from analysts and customers. It has the best combined detection and protection in the MITRE ATT&CK evaluation and has a "Strategic Leader" rating from AV-Comparatives, and is a  Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security SaaS Q2 2021 customers can trust Cortex XDR.

8. Autonomous Security Operations
Manual processes slow down incident response and increase the cost of security operations.

 

9. Rapid Pace of Innovation
To outpace fast-moving adversaries, you should look for vendors that continuously strengthen or expand their products’ capabilities.

 

10. Unparalleled Value and Return on Investment
When selecting a key element of your security infrastructure, you want to make sure it will provide demonstrable value. Cortex XDR does just this by:

• Leveraging your existing security tools as sensors for detection and response.
• Eliminating on-premises log servers with cloud deployment.
• Simplifying operations with data stitching, alert grouping and root cause analysis.
• XDR lowers Total Cost of Ownership - 44% on average, compared to traditional siloed tools.