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Cortex XDR 5.x unifies endpoint protection, detection, investigation, and response.

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1. Learn the product

Product overview Learn the basics and architecture.

What is Cortex XDR ?

Agentic AI Use the assistant for investigations and automation.

Agentic AI in Cortex XDR

Licensing Review plans, add-ons, and retention.

Cortex XDR license plan

Interface Navigate pages, filters, views, and exports.

Use the interface

2. Onboard and configure

Onboard Deploy, activate, and finish setup.

Onboard Cortex XDR

Deployment checklist Follow the key steps to deploy and onboard.

Cortex XDR onboarding checklist

Post-deployment steps Set up your environment, automation, and access.

Post-deployment steps

Configure Set up analytics, data, integrations, and APIs.

Configure Cortex XDR

Data management Manage datasets, retention, and storage.

Dataset management

Cases and issues Review cases, investigate issues, and track response.

Overview of cases

3. Protect your environment

Endpoint protection Learn protections, modules, and prevention.

Endpoint protection

Endpoint management Deploy agents and manage policies.

Install and manage endpoints

WAAS Protect web apps and APIs.

Web and API Security (WAAS)

Endpoint DLP Prevent sensitive data exfiltration.

Endpoint DLP

4. Detect, investigate, and respond

Dashboards Track operations, trends, and outcomes.

Monitor dashboards and reports

Assets Investigate assets, groups, scores, and risk.

Asset management

Cases and response Triage issues, investigate, and respond.

Investigate and respond to cases

Assistant chat Investigate and query with natural language.

Agentic Assistant chat

Threats Manage rules and analytics.

Threat management

Exposure Assess exposure, compliance, and vulnerabilities.

Exposure management

5. Reference and maintenance

XQL Build and run queries across your data.

Cortex XDR XQL

Graph Search Explore relationships across assets and findings.

Graph Search

API reference Integrate Cortex XDR with external tools.

Cortex XDR API Reference

Broker VM migration Follow the Broker VM migration path.

Migrate to a new Broker VM image

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