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Cortex XSIAM 3.x Documentation

Product
Cortex XSIAM
Creation date
2025-07-15
Last date published
2026-06-04
Category
Administrator Guide

Complete the steps in this section to set up Exposure Management and begin to customize it to meet your organization's unique requirements. All of these steps are optional, but recommended.

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Step 1: Configure the Cortex Network Scanner and other Palo Alto Networks sensors

These sensors scan your environment and ingest vulnerabilities so you can review, prioritize, and take action on them from one central location.

Step 2: Configure third-party integrations

Exposure Management can ingest vulnerabilities from Tenable.io, Tenable.sc, Rapid7 InsightVM, and Qualys VMDR scanners.

Ingest assets and vulnerabilities from third-party applications

Step 3: Ingest assets and vulnerabilities using the API

The Vulnerability Ingest API imports vulnerabilities and assets from your third-party tools directly into your asset inventory and vulnerability management workflows.

Ingest assets and vulnerabilities from third-party applications

Step 4 Enable Attack Surface Testing (AST)

AST validates that vulnerabilities are exposed to the internet and provides additional context for compensating controls.

Attack Surface TestingAttack Surface Testing

Step 5: Review vulnerability policies

Review the out-of-the-box vulnerability policies and create custom policies to define which vulnerabilities trigger creation of an issue or other actions.

Vulnerability policies

Step 6: Review attack surface rules

Attack surface rules determine which attack surface management (ASM) findings create issues. Review the default enabled attack surface rules and enable or modify rules as needed.

Attack surface rules

Step 7: Set up asset groups

Asset groups can be used to:

  • define the scope of vulnerability policies

  • configure scope-based access control (SBAC), so users only see vulnerabilities for the assets they own

Asset Groups

Step 8: Enable issue enrichment and remediation automation

Install the Exposure Management Content pack to enable remediation owner information to be added to some issues automatically and automated remediation of some ASM issues.

Deploy ASM and Exposure Management enrichment and remediation automation functionality