Cortex Cloud Features
Management (3)
Dashboards and Reports
Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards.
Workflow Management
Creates new or streamlines existing workflows to better handle IT support tickets and service.
Administration Console
Provides Administration tools/console that are easy to use and learn for routine maintenance tasks
Operations (3)
Governance
Allows users to create, edit, and relinquish user access privileges.
Logging and Reporting
Provides required reports to manage business. Provides adequate logging to troubleshoot and support auditing.
API / Integrations
Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.
Security Controls (4)
Anomaly Detection
Constantly monitors acivity related to user behavior and compares activity to benchmarked patterns.
Data Loss Prevention
Stores data securely either on premise or in an adjacent cloud database to prevent loss of data at rest.
Security Auditing
Analyzes data associated with security configurations and infrastructure to provide vulnerability insights and best practices.
Cloud Gap Analytics
Analyzes data associated with denied entries and policy enforcement, giving information of better authentication and security protocols.
Administration (7)
Risk Scoring
Provides risk scoring for suspicious activity, vulnerabilities, and other threats. This feature was mentioned in 14 Cortex Cloud reviews.
Secrets Management
As reported in 14 Cortex Cloud reviews. Provides tools for managing authentication credentials such as keys and passwords.
Security Auditing
Analyzes data associated with security configurations and infrastructure to provide vulnerability insights and best practices. 14 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Configuration Management
Monitors configuration rule sets and policy enforcement measures and document changes to maintain compliance. This feature was mentioned in 14 Cortex Cloud reviews.
Policy Enforcement
As reported in 36 Cortex Cloud reviews. Allows administrators to set policies for security and data governance.
Auditing
As reported in 35 Cortex Cloud reviews. Analyzes data associated with web traffic and site performance to provide vulnerability insights and best practices.
Workflow Management
Creates new or streamlines existing workflows to better handle IT support tickets and service. 36 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Monitoring (3)
Continuous Image Assurance
Based on 14 Cortex Cloud reviews. Provides image verification features to establish container approval requirements and continuously monitor for policy violations to identify containers with known vulnerabilities, malware, and other threats.
Behavior Monitoring
Constantly monitors acivity related to user behavior and compares activity to benchmarked patterns and fraud indicators. This feature was mentioned in 14 Cortex Cloud reviews.
Observability
Generate insights across IT systems utilizing event metrics, logging, traces, and metadata. 14 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Protection (4)
Dynamic Image Scanning
Scans application and image source code for security flaws without executing it in a live environment 14 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Runtime Protection
As reported in 14 Cortex Cloud reviews. Monitors container activities and detects threats across containers, networks, and cloud service providers.
Workload Protection
As reported in 14 Cortex Cloud reviews. Protects compute resources across a networks and cloud service providers. Serves as Firewall and prompts additional authentication for suspicious users.
Network Segmentation
Allows administrative control over network components, mapping, and segmentation. 14 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Security (4)
Compliance Monitoring
Monitors data quality and sends alerts based on violations or misuse. This feature was mentioned in 37 Cortex Cloud reviews.
Anomoly Detection
Constantly monitors acivity related to user behavior and compares activity to benchmarked patterns. This feature was mentioned in 36 Cortex Cloud reviews.
Data Loss Prevention
Stores data securely either on premise or in an adjacent cloud database to prevent loss of data at rest. 34 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Cloud Gap Analytics
As reported in 36 Cortex Cloud reviews. Analyzes data associated with denied entries and policy enforcement, giving information of better authentication and security protocols.
Compliance (3)
Governance
Allows users to create, edit, and relinquish user access privileges. 37 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Data Governance
Ensures user access management, data lineage, and data encryption. 36 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Sensitive Data Compliance
Based on 36 Cortex Cloud reviews. Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.
Functionality - Software Composition Analysis (3)
Language Support
Supports a useful and wide variety of programming languages.
Integration
Integrates seamlessly with the build environment and development tools like repositories, package managers, etc.
Transparency
Grants comprehensive user-friendly insight into all open source components.
Effectiveness - Software Composition Analysis (3)
Remediation Suggestions
Provides relevant and helpful suggestions for vulnerability remediation upon detection.
Continuous Monitoring
Monitors open source components proactively and continuously.
Thorough Detection
Comprehensively identifies all open source version updates, vulnerabilities, and compliance issues.
Risk Analysis (3)
Risk Scoring
Identifies and scores potential network security risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance impacts of attacks and breaches.
Reporting
Creates reports outlining log activity and relevant metrics.
Risk-Prioritization
Allows for vulnerability ranking by customized risk and threat priorities.
Vulnerability Assesment (4)
Vulnerability Scanning
Analyzes your existing network and IT infrastructure to outline access points that can be easily compromised.
Vulnerability Intelligence
Stores information related to common vulnerabilities and how to resolve them once incidents occur.
Contextual Data
Identify risk data attributes such as description, category, owner, or hierarchy.
Dashboards
Provides the ability to create custom reporting dashboards to further explore vulnerability and risk data.
Automation (4)
Automated Remediation
Reduces time spent remedying issues manually. Resolves common network security incidents quickly.
Workflow Automation
Streamlines the flow of work processes by establishing triggers and alerts that notify and route information to the appropriate people when their action is required within the compensation process.
Security Testing
Allows users to perfrom hands-on live simulations and penetration tests.
Test Automation
Runs pre-scripted vulnerability scans and security tests without requiring manual work.
Configuration (5)
DLP Configuration
Offers data loss prevention tools to protect data from leaving the environments it is allowed to. 20 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Configuration Monitoring
Based on 21 Cortex Cloud reviews. Monitors configuration rule sets and policy enforcement measures and document changes to maintain compliance.
Unified Policy Management
Based on 21 Cortex Cloud reviews. Allows users to track and control security policies across cloud services and providers.
Adaptive Access Control
Provides a risk-based approach to determining trust within the network. 18 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
API / Integrations
As reported in 20 Cortex Cloud reviews. Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.
Visibility (2)
Multicloud Visibility
Provides all-encompassing display and analysis of environments, resources, traffic, and activity across networks. This feature was mentioned in 22 Cortex Cloud reviews.
Asset Discovery
Detect new assets as they enter a cloud environments and networks to add to asset inventory. 21 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Vulnerability Management (4)
Threat Hunting
Facilitates the proactive search for emerging threats as they target servers, endpoints, and networks. This feature was mentioned in 18 Cortex Cloud reviews.
Vulnerability Scanning
Analyzes your existing cloud, network, and IT infrastructure to outline access points that can be easily compromised. This feature was mentioned in 21 Cortex Cloud reviews.
Vulnerability Intelligence
Stores information related to new and common vulnerabilities and how to resolve them once incidents occur. This feature was mentioned in 19 Cortex Cloud reviews.
Risk-Prioritization
Allows for vulnerability ranking by customized risk and threat priorities. This feature was mentioned in 21 Cortex Cloud reviews.
Access control - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (4)
Policy Management
Helps define policies for access management
Fine-Grained Access Control
Uses principle of least privilege to ensure access control at granular level of specific resources and apps 10 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Based on 10 Cortex Cloud reviews. Enables organization to define roles and assign access based on these roles
AI-driven access control
Streamlines the management of user access through AI
Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (2)
Monitoring
Based on 10 Cortex Cloud reviews. Tracks and logs user activities, access requests, and changes to entitlements
AI-based detection
As reported in 10 Cortex Cloud reviews. Detects and remediates risky, misconfigured permissions for human and machine identities using AI
Auditing - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (2)
Visibility
As reported in 10 Cortex Cloud reviews. Provides visibility into all users and identities across the system
Compliance Reporting
Provides reporting capabilities to demonstrate compliance 10 reviewers of Cortex Cloud have provided feedback on this feature.
AI Compliance (3)
Regulatory Reporting
Generates reports to demonstrate AI compliance with local and international frameworks.
Automated Compliance
Helps AI systems to comply with the regulations.
Audit Trails
Maintains detailed logs of activities and changes to AI models.
Risk Management & Monitoring (2)
AI Risk Management
Evaluates legal, operational and ethical risks posed by AI systems.
Real-time Monitoring
Monitors AI models for anomalies continuously.
AI Lifecycle Management (1)
Lifecycle Automation
Automates retraining, version updates and decomissioning when the models are outdated.
Access Control and Security (1)
Pole-based Access Control (RBAC)
Restricts access to AI models and sensitive data to authorized users.
Collaboration and Communication (1)
Model Sharing and Reuse
Helps sharing AI models and best practices.
Security - Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) (4)
Workload and container security
Scans containers, workloads, and kubernetes clusters for any misconfigurations or vulnerabilities.
Threat detection and response
Monitor live environments for anomalies, risks and threats to ensure rapid response.
DevSecOps Integrations
Integrates with CI/CD pipelines to detect security risks early in the development life cycle.
Unified Visibility
Consolidate all security data across the tech and cloud stacks into one dashboard.
Artificial Intelligence - Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) (3)
Intelligent remediations and suggestions
Offers an AI-powered engine to provide remediation guidance to the user based on the type of threat.
Risk prioritization
Uses context-aware analysis to identify critical and non-critical risks across vulnerabilities.
Anomaly detection using machine learning
Help detect anomalies across cloud workloads which could help present a potential breach.
Cloud Configuration Management - Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) (2)
Multi-cloud visibility
Offers a unified view of all cloud assets across multi-cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP etc.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Continuously scans cloud environments for any misconfigurations, and provide benchmarks and guided remediation.
Agentic AI - Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) (2)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Agentic AI - Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) (3)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - AI Governance Tools (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Services - Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) (1)
Managed Services
Offers managed detection and response services.
Discovery & Classification - Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (3)
Continuous real‑time monitoring
Provide real‑time visibility into data exposures and activities.
Discover & classify sensitive data
Automatically scan across cloud, SaaS, on‑prem environments to locate and tag sensitive data.
Custom classification support
Allow business‑specific or regulatory data labels beyond default frameworks.
Risk Prioritization - Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (3)
Detect excessive entitlements & toxic combinations
Identify over‑permissioned users, roles, or accounts in combination with misconfigurations.
Compliance posture assessment
Assess data risks against regulatory frameworks and internal policies.
Risk‑based exposure scoring
Prioritize findings based on data sensitivity, exploitability, and business impact.
Remediation & Governance - Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (3)
Guided remediation actions
Provide context‑aware recommendations for fixing exposures (e.g., revoke access, encrypt, misconfiguration remediation).
Integration with enforcement tools
Integrate with CSPM, CIEM, SOAR, SIEM for automated policy enforcement.
Track remediation progress & trends
Monitor posture over time and track remediation efforts.
Functionality - AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) Tools (5)
Security Ecosystem Integration
Integrate with existing security infrastructure (SIEM, CASB, IAM, DSPM/CSPM/SSPM) to bring AI‑SPM into the wider security ecosystem.
AI Asset Discovery
Discover AI applications, agents, chatbots and integrations across SaaS, APIs and other environments.
Adaptive Policy Updates
Support continuous updates to policies and controls as AI‑tool usage evolves and new threats emerge.
Access and Permissions Monitoring
Monitor data flows, permissions and resource access associated with AI integrations and tools.
Policy Enforcement
Enforce AI‑specific security policies in real time, such as limiting agent permissions and blocking unauthorized AI activity.
Risk Assessment - AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) Tools (2)
AI Risk Assessment
Continuously assess AI integration risks including misconfigurations, policy violations and exposure to external AI services.
AI Asset Posture Scoring
Provide dashboards, risk scores and prioritisation for remediation across the AI‑asset estate.
Governance & Compliance - AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) Tools (2)
AI‑Generated Content Controls
Monitor AI‑generated content for sensitive/regulated information and apply remediation or blocking controls.
Audit Trails
Maintain audit logs, governance controls and reporting tied specifically to AI assets, agent behaviours and integrations.





