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# Key features

* **Visibility**–Get complete visibility across your entire cloud estate:
  * Discover your cloud inventory: Comprehensive and uniform inventory across all types of infrastructure across all cloud providers: Compute, APIs, Containers, Serverless, Data, AI Services, Identities, Networks.
  * Visualize asset relationships: Rich relationship graph demonstrates how assets and findings impact each other.
  * Simple, frictionless onboarding: View your entire cloud estate with agentless scanning.<br>
* **Cloud risk assessment**–Comprehensive cloud risk assessment across all major cloud security posture domains:
  * Vulnerabilities
  * Misconfigurations
  * Access and permissions
  * Non-human identities and third-party exposure
  * AI risk and supply chain
  * Data exposure, sovereignty, and residency
  * Network exposure<br>
* **Cloud vulnerability management**–Vulnerability management across VMs, Containers, Serverless, and OSS packages:
  * Prioritize impactful vulnerabilities with context: Understand environmental factors such as severity, exploitability, patch availability, internet exposure and others.
  * Reduce the number of fixes: AI-driven detection consolidates related vulnerabilities with the same root cause—one fix resolves multiple issues.
  * Track KPIs: Understand Insights about the state of vulnerabilities in cloud native environments and their evolution over time.<br>
* **Compliance**–Uniform compliance management:
  * Validate industry regulation with dozens of built-in standards across security, privacy, and AI: PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST, ISO, and more.
  * Meet unique organizational requirements: Create custom compliance rules and standards.
  * Generate audit-ready reports: Export, schedule, and share compliance reports with stakeholders.<br>
* **Attack path analysis:**
  * Detect critical risks: Discover combinations of individual risk signals that form attack paths.
  * Overly permissive identities, network exposures, sensitive data, misconfigurations, vulnerabilities
  * Prioritize harmful risks: Uncover which misconfigurations enable lateral movement to high-value assets such as sensitive data stores.
  * Gain end-to-end visibility: Visualize attack paths in a rich graph, gaining full risk context.<br>
* **Cases:**
  * Dramatically reduce alerts: AI-driven detection consolidates related risks and attack paths into a high priority case.
  * Enable full context for effective mitigation: Clearly identify high-impact posture issues, preventing wasted resources on less significant threats.
  * Resolve numerous issues with a single action driven by AI and automation.<br>
* **Ecosystem Integration and Automation:**
  * Powerful Ecosystem: Cortex Cloud integrates with your entire ecosystem with thousands of third-party integrations ranging from workflow solutions to security vendors.
  * Out Of the Box Remediation Playbooks: Cortex Cloud offers many playbooks for remediating security issues to reduce MTTR.
  * Build your own Remediation Playbooks: Cortex Cloud offers a no code automation wizard to build your own security playbooks.


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