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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.

Threat intelligence supplies actionable context about known adversaries, indicators, and attack techniques, enabling security teams to improve detection, investigation, and response processes proactively.

Cortex Cloud administrators can import and export dashboard configurations in JSON for cross-environment onboarding and migration. Dashboards based on custom infrastructure are explicitly excluded from export.

Web and API Security profiles are created from Inventory → Endpoints → Policy Management → Prevention → Profiles; the profile is then configured for the Linux platform and the Web & API Security profile type.

Cortex XDR agent deployment artifacts and installation instructions are associated with an agent installation package. Cortex Cloud provides these from the Agent Installations page, reached through Inventory > Endpoints > Installations.

Cloud Detection and Response can identify malicious activity affecting cloud workloads, and agentless disk scanning can inspect the API server’s disk for malicious files. CSPM focuses on cloud configuration risks, while attack-surface capabilities focus on discovering and assessing exposed assets rather than detecting malware on a server.

Customer transaction data retrieved to supply context while the chatbot generates a response is inference data. Inference is the runtime use of a model to produce an output from an input, so protections for inference data apply to those transaction datasets.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-service-provider source is the appropriate integration for evaluating configuration and exposure of AWS resources, including S3 buckets. Amazon S3 evaluates bucket public access through bucket policies, ACLs, and Block Public Access settings; the AWS source provides the cloud-resource context needed to investigate those conditions.

Cortex XDR Host Inventory within Host Insights supports vulnerability assessment across CVEs, endpoints, and installed applications. Host Insights provides detailed information for endpoints with a Cortex XDR agent installed, so its vulnerability view can be used to identify affected applications and confirm agent-managed endpoint coverage.

Agentless disk scanning performs vulnerability scans by analyzing cloud workload disks or snapshots through authorized cloud-provider access, so it provides vulnerability assessment without requiring an agent to be installed on the workload. The Discovery Engine supplies asset inventory and security-posture visibility rather than disk-based vulnerability scanning.

Vulnerability security identifies and helps remediate weaknesses such as unpatched devices that ransomware can exploit. Identity security protects accounts and access against phishing-based credential compromise, helping prevent attackers from using a compromised employee identity to access cloud resources.

GitHub secret scanning scans repository contents for supported secret patterns. AES-256-encrypted ciphertext does not contain the plaintext secret patterns that the scanner must inspect, so the files must be decrypted back to plaintext before they can be scanned.

A virtual patch implemented through a WAF is a compensating control that can reduce the vulnerability’s residual risk in the specific environment while the underlying vulnerability remains present. Recasting the CVSS score and severity records that contextual risk assessment in accordance with the organization’s risk-management policy, without removing the finding from tracking.

Amazon S3 data becomes available for analysis only when its data source is properly onboarded with valid AWS permissions, CloudTrail logging, and scan configuration. Adding and enabling the S3 application after this setup allows Data Security to scan the S3 assets and display collected results.

ASPM establishes code-to-cloud lineage by using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tags to correlate repository-defined resources with their deployed cloud assets. IaC resources serve as the bridge from the source repository to the runtime cloud resource.

Kubernetes Connector supports managed and self-managed OpenShift clusters and provides the connection needed for Kubernetes security and runtime visibility. Data brokers and agentless disk scanning are not OpenShift runtime-visibility solutions, and Cortex XDR for Cloud is the broader platform rather than the lightweight cluster connector.

Consolidating visibility and response capabilities across the attack surface provides a shared operational view and correlates related alerts into a single incident. This reduces duplicate investigations, improves collaboration between SOC and network-security analysts, and speeds investigation and response. Microsoft’s unified security operations guidance describes unified incident correlation across multiple attack surfaces as improving incident-response efficiency.

A SIEM continuously collects and analyzes security event data, using analytics rules and correlations to detect defined indicators and suspicious behavioral patterns. SOAR is principally used to automate recurring enrichment, triage, response, and remediation workflows.

Application security applies security controls to the application lifecycle, including development and delivery pipelines. Monitoring CI/CD pipelines helps detect and prevent application and code risks before deployment, whereas data security concentrates on discovering, classifying, and protecting data.

Cortex Cloud Application Security combines code-to-cloud visibility with shift-left scanning and remediation. It identifies Infrastructure-as-Code misconfigurations before production, maps code-level issues to runtime findings, and integrates guidance into developer workflows, reducing recurring runtime misconfigurations without impeding development.