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Ulises G.
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Ulises G.
CTO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Log Storage for Analytics"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Cortex Data Lake?

Cortex Data Lake allows the NGFW Palo Alto and Cortex XDR to save the logs and have more information to review and find different behaviors. The implementation was easy, because you have to create an instance. Then only you have to synchronize the NGFW to this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cortex Data Lake?

May be the costs of the cloud storage, and the minimum size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CHINMAI  MARODIA .
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CHINMAI MARODIA .
Sales Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Cortex Data Lake: How beneficial this lake can be?"
5/5
What do you like best about Cortex Data Lake?

It helps to assess the risk and simplify security operations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cortex Data Lake?

Performance issues and data transfer issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Bhupender Y.
cybersecurity engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"I am share my experience with Cortex data lake with some good features and some limitations."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Cortex Data Lake?

Normally in my environment, I have used it for sending the Prisma SASE logs for a backup in the future. when many times the logs are not visible on Prisma end so in this case, this is very useful. and also we can forward Palo Alto firewall logs but we can not forward other vendor firewall logs on cortex data lake. You can also set the storage for different types like Traffic, Threat, System, Configuration etc according to your requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cortex Data Lake?

The most disliked thing about the cortex data lake is that you can not forward the cortex data lake to SIM and SNMP. So I suggest to the Palo Alto team to please provide log forwarding for these servers also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gopi T.
GT
Gopi T.
S
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Never Ever Seen SaaS based Log Storage"
5/5
What do you like best about Cortex Data Lake?

1) Centralized log storage with different Paloalto products

2) Detailed logs visibility

3) Higher storage

4) Long log rotation period

5) Attractive GUI and easy logs analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cortex Data Lake?

1) Only use for Paloalto products

2) Limited Regions

3) We don’t know the encryption mechanism

4) We don’t know the availability and backup

5) Some logs are not reflected properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prabuddha H.
PH
Prabuddha H.
Lead Network Security Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Unfavorable experience, as it causes more problems like performance issues than it solves."
4/5
What do you like best about Cortex Data Lake?

User-friendly MGMT interface and easily readable logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cortex Data Lake?

Causes significant performance problems on endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kaviarasu K.
KK
Kaviarasu K.
Technical Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"The amazing Data point"
5/5
What do you like best about Cortex Data Lake?

The very important thing I like about cortex data lake is, that it is very useful for threat identification and classification. it was very good and superb responsible for real-time threat analysis on Palo alto networks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cortex Data Lake?

As of now, there is nothing major changes required. But integration with third-party vendors using API connection can be improved for better results on threat and malicious content identification and classification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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karthick R.
Technical engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The ultimate data lake"
5/5
What do you like best about Cortex Data Lake?

The best thing about cortex data lake is it contains all details about the modern threats, which are emerging day by day. it was very useful in detecting advanced threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cortex Data Lake?

The features which are available on the cortex data lake were awesome. but the integration with the third-party vendors needs to be improved for successful detections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michel C.
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Michel C.
Researcher
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Cortex Data Lake a great cloud solution"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Cortex Data Lake?

Cortex Data Lake is secure, resilient, and fault-tolerant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cortex Data Lake?

Nothing, almost all needed features are available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Darshil S.
DS
Darshil S.
Consultant
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Central log storage by Palo Alto Networks - Cortex Data Lake"
4/5
What do you like best about Cortex Data Lake?

Palo Alto Network's Cortex Data Lake is completely cloud base storage and ingests logs from all the services and products from Palo Alto Networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cortex Data Lake?

Palo Alto Network's Cortex Data Lake can only ingest logs from services and products from Palo Alto, other logs and data cannot be uploaded. Also, it is a bit costly than other tools providing the same service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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