Response Actions - Administrator Guide - Cortex XDR - Cortex - Security Operations

Cortex XDR Pro Administrator Guide

Product
Cortex XDR
License
Pro
Creation date
2023-10-31
Last date published
2024-03-18
Category
Administrator Guide
Abstract

As a result of an incident investigation, different response actions are possible.

After or during the investigation of malicious activity in your network, Cortex XDR offers various response actions that enable you to investigate the endpoint and take immediate action to remediate it. For example, when you detect a compromised endpoint, you can isolate it from your network to prevent it from communicating with any other internal or external device and thereby reducing an attacker’s mobility on your network. The available response actions are:

For response actions that rely on the Cortex XDR agent, the following table describes the supported platforms and minimal agent version. A dash (—) indicates the setting is not supported.

Module

Windows

Mac

Linux

Initiate a Live Terminal Session

Initiates a remote connection to an endpoint allowing you to investigate and respond to security events on endpoints. Using Live Terminal you can navigate and manage files in the file system, manage active processes, and run the operating system or Python commands.

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Agent 6.1 and later

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Agent 7.0 and later

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Agent 7.0 and later

Isolate an Endpoint

Halts all network access on the endpoint except for traffic to Cortex XDR to prevent a compromised endpoint from communicating with any other internal or external device.

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Agent 6.0 and later

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Agent 7.3 and later on macOS 10.15.4 and later

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Agent 7.7 and later

Run Scripts on an Endpoint

Allows executing Python 3.7 scripts on your endpoints directly from Cortex XDR , including out-of-the-box scripts provided by Cortex XDR or your own Python scripts and code snippets.

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Agent 7.1 and later

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Agent 7.1 and later

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Agent 7.1 and later

Remediate Changes from Malicious Activity

Investigates suspicious causality process chains and incidents on your endpoints, and displays a list of suggested actions to remediate processes, files and registry keys on your endpoint that were changed as a result of malicious activity.

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Agent 7.2 and later

Search and Destroy Malicious Files

Searches for the presence of known and suspected malicious files on endpoints and destroys the file from endpoints where it exists.

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Agent 7.2 and later

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Agent 7.3 and later on macOS 10.15.4 and later

Caution

Response actions are not supported for Android endpoints.