Cortex Xpanse and Exposure Management: shrink your attack surface
Attackers scan the entire internet in minutes. Discover your unknown assets before they do and focus on the vulnerabilities that are actually exploitable.
Attackers have an unfair advantage
According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 research, attackers can scan the entire internet for vulnerabilities within 45 minutes, while enterprises take an average of more than three weeks to find and fix them. Hybrid work and cloud scatter IT infrastructure and create unmonitored assets: 70% of organisations experienced an attack from unknown or unmanaged assets.
Cortex Xpanse continuously scans the entire internet to discover unknown systems and exposed services belonging to your organisation, maps your attack surface with supervised machine learning and reduces risk directly with built-in playbooks rather than just raising tickets. Cortex Exposure Management prioritises vulnerabilities across enterprise and cloud with AI, cutting noise by up to 99%.
Key capabilities
Active discovery
Continuously scan the internet to find and index unknown risks in all connected systems.
Active learning
Map your attack surface with machine learning and reduce MTTD and MTTR without extra analysts.
Active response
Reduce risk immediately with automated playbooks.
AI prioritisation
Focus on exploitable, high-risk vulnerabilities with no compensating controls.
Automated remediation
Scale remediation with plain-language AI summaries and native playbook automation.
Close the loop
Create new protections for critical risks directly in Palo Alto Networks network, cloud and SecOps platforms.
Use cases
- Fix security blind spots and eliminate shadow cloud resources
- Close common ransomware entry points in advance
- Identify affected assets within minutes when a zero-day is disclosed
- Assess the attack surface of a target during mergers and acquisitions
Cortex Xpanse with Albisec
We design, deploy and operate Cortex projects around your existing SOC processes, log sources and team structure.
- Analysis of your current SIEM, EDR and automation tools, and a migration plan
- Data source integration and tuning of detections and playbooks to your environment
- Phased rollout starting with a pilot group
- 24/7 support, version management and periodic health checks
Official product page:paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-xpanse
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Learn moreFrequently asked questions
What is attack surface management (ASM)?
ASM is the discipline of continuously discovering all of an organisation’s internet-facing assets, known and unknown, from the outside in, as an attacker would, and prioritising the risk.
How does Xpanse differ from a vulnerability scanner?
Vulnerability scanners scan known assets periodically. Xpanse continuously scans the entire internet to find assets the organisation does not know about and responds automatically.
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