Hardened Endpoint Security - Administrator Guide - Cortex XDR - Cortex

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Cortex XDR Prevent Administrator Guide

Product

Cortex XDR

License

Prevent

Creation date

2024-07-16

Last date published

2024-10-06

Category

Administrator Guide

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Abstract

By hardening your endpoints with Cortex XDR you can make these endpoints more secure and safer from attackers.

Cortex XDR enables you to extend the security on your endpoints beyond the Cortex XDR agent built-in prevention capabilities to provide increased coverage of network security within your organization. By leveraging existing mechanisms and added capabilities, the Cortex XDR agent can enforce additional protections on your endpoints to provide a comprehensive security posture.

From Endpoints → Policy Management → Extensions → Profiles, you can create profiles for the following hardened endpoint security capabilities.

The Extensions Profiles table lists the profile details per operating system. Profiles associated with one or more targets that are beyond your defined user scope are locked and cannot be edited.

Field	Description
Associated Targets	The targets associated with the profile.
Created By	Administrative user who created the profile.
Created Time	Date and time at which the profile was created.
Description	Optional description entered by an administrator to describe the profile.
Modification Time	Date and time at which the profile was modified.
Modified By	Administrative user who modified the profile.
Name	Name provided to identify the security profile.
Platform	Platform type of the profile.
Summary	Summary of profile configuration.
Type	Profile type.
Usage Count	Number of policy rules that use the profile.

To apply the profiles, from Endpoints → Policy Management → Extensions → Policy Rules, you can view all the policy rules per operating system. Rules associated with one or more targets that are beyond your defined user scope are locked and cannot be edited.

The following table describes for each capability the supported platforms and minimal agent version. A dash (—) indicates the setting is not supported.

Caution

Hardened endpoint security capabilities are not supported for Android endpoints.

Module	Windows	Mac	Linux
Device Control Protects endpoints from loading malicious files from USB-connected removable devices (CD-ROM, disk drives, floppy disks, and Windows portable devices drives).	Cortex XDR agent 7.0 and later For VDI, Cortex XDR agent 7.3 and later	Cortex XDR agent 7.2 and later	—
Host Firewall Protects endpoints from attacks originating in network communications to and from the endpoint.	Cortex XDR agent 7.1 and later	Cortex XDR agent 7.2 and later	—
Disk Encryption Provides visibility into endpoints that encrypt their hard drives using BitLocker or FileVault.	Cortex XDR agent 7.1 and later	Cortex XDR agent 7.2 and later	—

Module

Windows

Mac

Linux

Device Control

Protects endpoints from loading malicious files from USB-connected removable devices (CD-ROM, disk drives, floppy disks, and Windows portable devices drives).

Cortex XDR agent 7.0 and later

For VDI, Cortex XDR agent 7.3 and later

Cortex XDR agent 7.2 and later

—

Host Firewall

Protects endpoints from attacks originating in network communications to and from the endpoint.

Cortex XDR agent 7.1 and later

Cortex XDR agent 7.2 and later

—

Disk Encryption

Provides visibility into endpoints that encrypt their hard drives using BitLocker or FileVault.

Cortex XDR agent 7.1 and later

Cortex XDR agent 7.2 and later

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