Cortex XDR Agent for Mac Requirements

Mac (macOS) endpoints must meet the following requirements to install the Cortex XDR agent.

The Cortex XDR agent for Mac has the following requirements:

Requirement	Specification
Processor	Intel Pentium 4 or later with SSE2 instruction set support AMD Opteron/Athlon 64 or later with SSE2 instruction set support macOS based devices with Apple Silicon ARM Mx processors
RAM	512 MB minimum; 2 GB recommended
Hard disk space	5 GB minimum; 20 GB recommended
Operating system versions	Palo Alto Networks supports Cortex XDR agent on many operating systems. To determine the minimum Cortex XDR agent release for a specific operating system, refer to Where can I install the Cortex XDR Agent for macOS. Note You can install the Cortex XDR agent for Mac only on endpoints running macOS.
Networking	Allow communication on the TCP port from the Cortex XDR agent to server (the default is port 443). Allow the Cortex XDR management console and agent to communicate with external and internal resources required for enforcing endpoint protection.