Features Introduced in Cortex XDR Agent 8.3

Abstract

Describes the new features introduced in Cortex XDR agent 8.3 releases.

The following section describes the new features introduced in Cortex XDR agent 8.3 release according to the supported agent operating systems.

The following features are added to the Cortex XDR agent.

Feature	Description
Linux platform support	Support for the following Linux platforms has been added to release 8.3: AlmaLinux 8.9, 9.3 x86_64 and aarch64 Oracle Linux 8.9, 9.3 x86_64 and aarch64 RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.9, 9.3 x86_64 and aarch64 RockyLinux 8.9, 9.3 x86_64 and aarch64 CentOS Stream 9 - User Mode Agent CentOS Stream 8 - aarch64 Debian 10 aarch64
Linux cloud platform support	Support for the following Linux cloud platforms has been added to release 8.3: Alibaba Cloud IBM Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Linux Kubernetes platform support	Support for the following Linux Kubernetes platforms has been added to release 8.3: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with Bottlerocket nodes Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Microsoft CBL-mariner 2.0 Kubernetes nodes Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) aarch64 Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) x86_64 and aarch64 SUSE Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2)
Pod Security Admission compliance	Cortex XDR agents can be deployed in Linux environments where Pod Security Admission controller enforces Pod Security Standards.
Information handling enhancements	Cortex XDR has integrated cloud-related attributes to security events and agent status to convey essential information.
Malware protection	Cortex XDR has expanded it's malware protection capabilities by adding the UEFI module, which reinforces it's protection from pre-boot attacks.

Features Introduced in Cortex XDR Agent 8.3 - Release Notes - 8.3 - Cortex XDR - Cortex XDR Agent - Advanced Endpoint Protection - Security Operations