Cloud SecurityCortex Cloud
Real-time cloud detection and response, converging CNAPP with the SOC.
Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud converges cloud-native application protection with real-time cloud detection and response on the Cortex platform — unifying cloud security posture, workload protection, and code-to-cloud context with SOC-grade detection, investigation, and response. It brings cloud security and security operations together so cloud threats are stopped in real time. Faltrox operates it as managed cloud detection and response.
Overview
What Cortex Cloud is
Traditional cloud security finds misconfigurations and vulnerabilities but is slow to detect and respond to active attacks, while the SOC lacks cloud context. Cortex Cloud closes that gap by bringing cloud-native application protection together with real-time cloud detection and response on the Cortex platform — so cloud posture, workload protection, and code-to-cloud context feed SOC-grade detection and response.
It combines the preventive CNAPP capabilities (posture, workload, identity, code-to-cloud) with real-time threat detection, AI-driven investigation, and automated response, giving the SOC full cloud context and the ability to stop attacks as they happen rather than only finding risk after the fact. Integrated with the wider Cortex platform (XSIAM, XDR), it unifies cloud security and security operations. Faltrox operates it as managed cloud detection and response.
Coverage
What it protects
The platforms, threats, and surfaces this product is built to defend.
Multi-Cloud
Secures and monitors workloads and posture across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Real-Time Detection
Detects and responds to active cloud attacks in real time, not just after the fact.
Code to Cloud
Preventive CNAPP context from code and pipeline through to runtime.
AI Investigation
AI-driven investigation gives the SOC full cloud context to act fast.
Workloads
Protects hosts, containers, and serverless workloads at runtime.
Cortex Platform
Integrates with XSIAM and XDR to unify cloud security and the SOC.
How it works
The mechanism
How the product moves from signal to protected state, step by step.
- 01
Protect
CNAPP capabilities assess posture, protect workloads, and provide code-to-cloud context across the clouds.
- 02
Detect
Real-time detection identifies active cloud attacks as they happen, enriched with cloud context.
- 03
Investigate
AI-driven investigation on the Cortex platform gives the SOC full context to understand an incident.
- 04
Respond
Automated and guided response stops cloud attacks in real time rather than only flagging risk.
- 05
Operate
Faltrox operates it as managed cloud detection and response, integrated with the SOC it runs.
Capabilities
Key capabilities
Converged CNAPP + CDR
Unifies cloud-native application protection with real-time cloud detection and response.
Real-Time Detection
Detects and responds to active cloud attacks as they happen, with cloud context.
Code-to-Cloud Context
Preventive posture, workload, identity, and pipeline context feed detection and response.
AI-Driven Investigation
AI investigation gives the SOC full cloud context to act quickly and accurately.
Automated Response
Automated and guided response stops cloud threats in real time.
Workload Protection
Protects hosts, containers, and serverless workloads at runtime.
Cortex Platform Integration
Integrates with XSIAM and XDR to unify cloud security and security operations.
Unified SOC & Cloud
Gives the SOC cloud context and gives cloud security SOC-grade detection and response.
Works with
Part of the platform
Palo Alto Networks products this pairs with, and the Faltrox services that operate it.
Palo Alto Networks products
Faltrox services
Delivery
You buy the outcome, not the console
Managed by Faltrox
Faltrox licenses, deploys, and tunes Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud for your environment, then runs it as part of a managed service, so you get the protection without staffing another security console.
FAQ
Common questions
01How is Cortex Cloud different from Prisma Cloud?
Prisma Cloud is the CNAPP focused on preventing cloud risk (posture, workloads, identity, code-to-cloud). Cortex Cloud converges those capabilities with real-time cloud detection and response on the Cortex platform, adding SOC-grade detection, AI investigation, and automated response so active cloud attacks are stopped in real time, not just found as risk.
02Why bring cloud security and the SOC together?
Because traditional cloud security is slow to detect active attacks and the SOC lacks cloud context. Converging them means cloud posture and workload context feed real-time detection and response, so the SOC can stop cloud attacks as they happen with the context it needs.
03Does it still do preventive cloud security?
Yes — it retains the CNAPP capabilities (posture, workload protection, identity, code-to-cloud) and adds real-time detection and response on top, so you get both prevention and active-attack response in one platform.
04How does it fit the wider Cortex platform?
It integrates with Cortex XSIAM and XDR, so cloud detections are correlated with endpoint, network, and identity across the whole SOC platform — giving one unified detection and response fabric. Faltrox runs that as one managed SOC.
05How does Faltrox operate it?
We operate Cortex Cloud as managed cloud detection and response — tuning the preventive policy, running the real-time detection and AI investigation, and driving automated response, integrated with the SOC services we deliver.
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