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Cortex IOC rules generate alerts for known malicious or suspicious static artifacts, such as IP addresses, domains, file hashes, filenames, and paths. BIOC rules detect suspicious behavior involving processes, files, registry activity, and network activity, so they can identify system-process behavior associated with adversary TTPs.

SmartGrouping consolidates related, disjointed signals into holistic cases. Grouping related findings reduces alert fragmentation and provides organized cases that can be prioritized and handled more efficiently. Palo Alto Networks distinguishes this grouping function from SmartScore, which supplies risk-based prioritization.

Cortex Cloud Vulnerability Management provides code-to-cloud visibility into vulnerabilities in deployed and running workloads, including VMs, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless functions. SCA and SAST are shift-left code-analysis capabilities for repositories, while Code to Cloud describes lifecycle-wide context rather than the runtime vulnerability-management capability.

The Local Resource Impact operational status denotes endpoints where insufficient local device resources affect the security agent’s ability to function properly.

Pull request scans start in response to version-control-system events, such as opening a pull request or pushing new commits to it, or through webhooks that deliver those events to the scanning service.