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# Release Highlights

The following are the key highlights for this release.

| Feature                                             | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| --------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| AgentiX AI Agent Workforce                          | <ul><li><p>Cortex Agentic Assistant: Go beyond rigid playbooks and command autonomous agents based on over 1.2 billion real-world playbook executions and governed by robust guardrails, to dynamically plan, reason and take action to solve any security challenge. Access agents through Cortex Agentic Assistant, the evolved Cortex Copilot.</p><p>Cortex Agentic Assistant is included in XSIAM. Availability of agentic capabilities may depend on specific licenses and is subject to supported regions.</p></li><li>Native MCP support: Now available in Beta, the Cortex MCP Server lets trusted LLM applications securely connect to XSIAM and access data and insights in real time using natural language prompts.</li></ul> |
| Federated Search in Cortex Extended Data Lake (XDL) | Now available in Beta, you can seamlessly query across external datasets stored in AWS, GCP, or Azure. Search and analyze remote data directly from XSIAM using XQL - without ingesting it or incurring additional storage costs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Forensics for Linux                                 | Forensic customers can now run complete investigations across Windows, macOS, and Linux, with deeper artifact collection and analysis from Linux endpoints.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Flexible Customization for Analytics Rules          | Align detection rules with your organization's unique risk profile. You can now easily adjust the severity of the alerts generated by our powerful, built-in analytics rules.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |


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