Features Introduced in Cortex XDR Agent 8.4 - Release Notes - 8.4 - Cortex XDR Agent - Cortex XDR - Advanced Endpoint Protection - Security Operations

Cortex XDR Agent Release Notes

Product
Cortex XDR Agent
Cortex XDR
Version
8.4
Creation date
2024-02-21
Last date published
2024-10-02
Category
Release Notes
Abstract

Describes the new features introduced in Cortex XDR agent 8.4 releases.

The following section describes the new features introduced in Cortex XDR agent 8.4 releases according to the supported agent operating systems.

General Features

Feature

Description

Forensics

Cortex XDR introduces a new Forensic Hunting feature to the Forensics add-on. This includes:

  • Named collection of user-defined searches

  • Method for running artifact searches at scale

  • Support for custom search parameters across all supported artifacts

  • Configurable timeouts for each artifact search

  • Ability to schedule searches for specific days or time ranges

  • Replaces artifact and search collections in User Agent settings and Forensic searches in the Action Center.

Linux Features

The following features were added to Cortex XDR agents running on Linux endpoints:

Feature

Description

Cloud Security Agent

Unified (single) agent that reduces maintenance and resource overheads while providing runtime security and vulnerability management capabilities for cloud native environments.

Requirements:

  • Cortex XSIAM 2.2/Cortex XDR 3.10 Cloud per Host

  • Prisma Cloud Compute

  • Cortex XDR agent 8.2.1 or above

Operating systems

Support for the following Linux Kubernetes operating system has been added in release 8.4

  • TalOS

Mac Features

The following features were added to Cortex XDR agents running on Mac endpoints:

Feature

Description

Vulnerability Assessment scanning engine

Cortex XDR support has been expanded to include an improved vulnerability scanning engine for both OS-level and 3rd-party applications level CVEs.

Windows Features

The following features were added to Cortex XDR agents running on Windows endpoints:

Feature

Description

Vulnerability Assessment scanning engine

Cortex XDR support has been expanded to include an improved vulnerability scanning engine for both OS-level and 3rd-party applications level CVEs.