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# Changed Features

These features have been modified or removed in this release.

| FEATURE                                   | DESCRIPTION                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Access Management                         | <ul><li><strong>Role setting transition</strong>: Role permissions for Report Templates, Scripts, Playbooks, and Saved Queries have changed to allow for managing access at the individual custom object level.</li><li><strong>“Restricted” access</strong>: All newly created custom objects are now <strong>Restricted</strong> by default, meaning only the user who created them can access them. The access can then be changed to <strong>Public</strong> for those customers who do not require per-object access.</li><li><strong>Owner-only deletion</strong>: Only the object <strong>Owner</strong> (the user who created them) or an Administrator can delete a custom object; <strong>Editors</strong> cannot.</li></ul>                                                                  |
| Enhanced application logs (EAL) ingestion | <p>Enhanced application logs (EAL) for this release are now moved to a non-billable status. While these logs continue to be ingested to provide full visibility, they no longer consume your Data Collection (GB) license quota. As a result, the following changes are now implemented:<br>- <strong>Quota calculation</strong>: EAL data volume is now excluded from your daily Data Collection (GB) license consumption totals.<br>- <strong>Data Ingestion dashboard</strong>: The overall ingestion graph will reflect billable totals only; as a result, EAL data is no longer displayed on this dashboard.<br>- <strong>NGFW Ingestion dashboard</strong>: To ensure continuity, the EAL category has been removed from the NGFW Ingestion Rate graph to align with its non-billable status.</p> |
| NGFW Alert Severity Mapping               | Following an update to the Detection & Mapping Service (DMS), we have corrected the severity mapping for behavioral alerts generated from Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) detection data. Previously, some alerts identified as **Critical** by the detection engine were assigned a lower severity level and displayed as **High** in Cortex Cloud. These alerts will now correctly display as **Critical** to ensure accurate prioritization in the incident response workflow. Alerts with **High** or **Medium** severity remain unchanged. If you have existing automation rules or notification profiles based on alert severity, ensure you review and adjust them to account for this change.                                                                                                   |


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