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Cortex Agentic Assistant

AI agent

by Palo Alto Networks

Persona-based AI agents inside Cortex XSIAM and Cortex Cloud that turn natural-language prompts into multistage security workflows: investigate cases, hunt threats, run playbooks and write scripts, with role-based access and manual approval for sensitive actions.

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What it does

• Threat detection and response
• Agent orchestration

Sources

Pricing

Not found · 18 Oct 2026

The product page and docs state no price; only a datasheet and event registration are offered.

Description

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"Boost analyst productivity with persona-based AI agents built into Cortex XSIAM and Cortex Cloud. Acting like always-on security experts, they turn natural language prompts into advanced, multistage workflows."

What it does

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"Cortex Agentic Assistant uses AI agents to investigate threats and execute multi-step security tasks in Cortex XSIAM."

Sold within

Not found · 18 Oct 2026

Read the product page and the Cortex XSIAM docs page: the assistant is "built into Cortex XSIAM and Cortex Cloud" and is switched on in server settings, but no page states which license tier carries it.

Name

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"Ask, and Cortex Agentic Assistant delivers"; "Cortex Agentic Assistant, leveraging Cortex AgentiX technology".

URL

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

The product's own page, titled "Command an AI agent workforce to solve any security challenge"; the docs page is https://cortex-docs.paloaltonetworks.com/cortex-xsiam/learn-about-cortex-xsiam/agentic-ai-in-cortex-xsiam.

Deployment

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"The Cortex Agentic Assistant is currently available for tenants in the following regions" (a hosted Cortex tenant feature).

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