Threat Intelligence permissions

Configure Cortex AgentiX permissions for indicators, threat intelligence feeds, TIM, and Extended Threat Intelligence.

Located under Threat Management → Threat Intelligence → Indicators, these permissions govern how your organization interacts with indicators (IPs, URLs, Domains, Hashes) and intelligence feeds. It allows you to transform raw data from sources like Unit 42 or AlienVault into actionable security logic.

Notice

The Extended Threat Intelligence (XTI) feature requires the Cortex Agentix Enterprise license, which includes Extended Threat Intelligence (XTI).

The Threat Intelligence Management (TIM) requires the Threat Intelligence Management (TIM) license.

For more information, see Extended Threat Intelligence or Threat Intel Management.

Component	Description	Roles Example
None	In TIM, no access to the Indicators page. In XTI, no access to the Indicators, Threat Intel Library, or Threat Intel Dashboard pages.
View	In TIM, users can search the indicator database and view reputation scores. In XTI, users can search the Threat Intel Library, the Indicator database, and Threat Intel Dashboard.	SOC Tier-1 analysts: View threat intelligence context for investigations.
View/Edit	In TIM, full control to manage indicator rules, manually override reputation scores, and configure intelligence feeds. In XTI, full control to manage indicators and indicator rules.	SOC Tier-2 and 3 Analysts: Enables creating and editing indicators discovered during investigations, adding context to IOCs, and enriching case artifacts with threat intelligence data. Threat Hunter: Enables researching threat actors and campaigns, creating indicators from hunting discoveries, enriching IOCs with contextual data, and documenting threat intelligence findings. Security Engineer: Enables integrating threat intel into detection rules, testing indicator-based detections, managing IOC feeds for rule development, and validating threat intel data quality.

Required and recommended permissions

Consider adding the following permissions:

Permission	Permission level	Reason
Cases & Issues	View	Strongly recommended. Indicator enrichment data appears in case artifacts, and editing indicators from case context requires case access.
Query Center	View/Edit	Enables investigating indicator matches via XQL queries. Essential for validating indicator impact before creating rules or blocking.
Threat Intel (under Integration Permissions)	View/Edit	Recommended for configuring VirusTotal API keys for indicator enrichment.
Integrations	View	Recommended. TIM feed integrations are configured under Integrations. Viewing integrations helps understand which threat intel feeds are active and contributing indicators.