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Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
Formerly Traps

Overview

What is Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR?

Traps replaces traditional antivirus with multi-method prevention, a proprietary combination of malware and exploit prevention methods that protect users and endpoints from known and unknown threats.

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Palo Alto Networks Traps is a highly regarded cybersecurity software that offers robust protection against malware, zero-day exploits, and …
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Traps will trap malware

10 out of 10
February 26, 2020
Incentivized
Traps are used by all of the endpoints (notebook & VDI) in our organization. This is done to mitigate the risk from malware attack, zero …
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Trap that malware!

8 out of 10
February 27, 2019
Incentivized
Traps was purchased as a response to a virus outbreak that kept cropping up due to still infected systems popping up days or weeks after …
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What is Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR?

Traps replaces traditional antivirus with multi-method prevention, a proprietary combination of malware and exploit prevention methods that protect users and endpoints from known and unknown threats.

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Product Details

What is Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR?

Traps replaces traditional antivirus with multi-method prevention, a proprietary combination of malware and exploit prevention methods that protect users and endpoints from known and unknown threats.

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Technical Details

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Palo Alto Networks Traps is a highly regarded cybersecurity software that offers robust protection against malware, zero-day exploits, and advanced persistent threats. Its seamless integration with the Palo Alto Suite has made it a popular choice among users. The software can be easily installed and used on various devices, including laptops and virtual desktops. Users have praised Traps for its ability to detect grayware, serious malware, and exploit attempts that may be missed by other antivirus solutions like Windows Defender. One of the standout features of Traps is its ability to prevent the execution of malware without requiring a file to be downloaded, providing enhanced protection for users. This next-gen capability, coupled with its ease of use and strong protection, has prompted many customers to replace their existing antivirus solutions with Palo Alto Networks Traps.

Traps has proven itself invaluable in identifying and quarantining threats, as well as isolating future malware and preventing its spread across the network. By integrating Wildfire and host AV, Traps adds additional layers of security to hosts and aids in detecting unknown and zero-day malware. The inclusion of Traps functionality in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR further enhances security controls and provides deep visibility into suspicious activities and behaviors exhibited by users. Cortex XDR serves as an Endpoint Response tool that enables organizations to quickly identify and respond to events and incidents across multiple devices.

Users have reported that Palo Alto Networks Traps offers advanced anti-malware detection and prevention with a low false-positive rate, minimizing user annoyance while effectively mitigating the risk of malware attacks, zero-day attacks, and APTs. Its organization-wide deployment ensures comprehensive protection for servers, desktops, and roaming users. With Traps seamlessly integrated into the Palo Alto Suite, manual whitelisting and server updates are no longer necessary. Overall, Palo Alto Networks Traps is widely recognized for its ease of installation, seamless integration capabilities, next-gen features, and robust protection against advanced threats.

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Score 1 out of 10
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Traps/now Cortex XDR was being used to provide endpoint protection for our servers and desktops. Traps/Cortex XDR was being used organization wide.
  • It does nothing well
  • Traps/cortex XDR alerts on wide scale commercial apps that are clearly not malicious
  • the Cortex XDR console interface is 5 steps worse than simply bad
  • Frontline support reps are not fluent in spoken English although their written fluency is okay (at best)
If I could give a zero, I would. This is a [bad] product with a bad interface. Support is awful and the product doesn't even come close to living up to the sales pitch. Avoid.
  • Integration with our firewalls. What a mistake otherwise
  • Traps had an agent upgrade get "stuck" that required me to manually reboot servers into safe mode to remediate it. Traps/Cortex ROI is by far negative. I'm pretty well-paid. Requiring multiple hours of my time to remediate your [bad] product entirely destroys any benefit.
  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP)
traps/cortex xdr is inferior in every respect
Day to day, Cortex is easy to use when you have no alerts and when an agent upgrade doesn't go south.

Alerts are far too "clicky", there's too many steps to drilling down to what actually happened to trigger an alert. Investigating alerts in Cortex takes about 5x longer than it should.
  • When nothing goes wrong with agents and there are no alerts, it's a breeze
  • Agent updates hang which also kills the uninstall password. The only solution is to boot to safe mode to run an uninstall utility
  • The number of steps it takes to drill into an alert is annoying
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