Cortex Exposure Management
Cut vulnerability noise by up to 99% with AI-driven prioritization and automated remediation.

The Problem with Legacy Vulnerability Management Approach

Legacy VM vendors, while pioneers in vulnerability assessments, have largely focused only on identifying vulnerabilities, neglecting the essential aspect of management and remediation, thus ultimately, leaving organizations exposed to AI-powered attacks.

Traditional vulnerability management is one of the least sophisticated processes in the security organization today. While there have been big advances in runtime protection on the agent and cloud, VM solutions still scan weekly or monthly, with typical SLAs that usually take days from start to finish. Couple this with having to use disjointed products to then apply that scanning data and actually take action to remediate, this process is just too slow.

• An overwhelming backlog of vulnerabilities, with enterprises struggling to prioritize and address them effectively.
• A reliance on rudimentary tools like spreadsheets for managing vulnerabilities, leading to inefficient operations.
• Millions of dollars wasted on mitigating risks that, in reality, have little impact on the organization due to flawed prioritization methods.
• Excess effort spent remediating vulnerabilities that have solid compensating security controls, i.e. CVEs that aren’t internet facing, behind a firewall, or have a runtime agent installed.
• Slow and manual remediation processes that are spread across different teams with varied priorities, further complicating the security posture.

Attackers are now exploiting faster than ever, especially with the introduction of generative AI (GenAI), making it critical for security teams to have the right tools to automatically mitigate and remediate in real time. This has led to a significant evolution in the vulnerability management landscape to now encompass:

• Enterprise Vulnerability Management
• Cloud Vulnerability Management
• Attack Surface Management
• Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management
• Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

The Cortex Approach to Exposure Management

With our robust portfolio of security solutions and innovations, Palo Alto Networks is uniquely equipped to address these challenges. Cortex Exposure Management leverages our deep expertise and cutting-edge technology to transform how vulnerabilities are managed.

Vulnerability data source optimization integrates all Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) data sources, both native and third-party scans, to ensure full visibility of the vulnerabilities. This includes network, cloud, endpoint, perimeter, IoT/OT, and third-party scanners, delivering outside-in, inside-out visibility into your vulnerabilities.

AI-Based Precision Filtering

evaluates the effectiveness of compensating controls and their relevance to new threats, while also gathering critical context like the asset owner, existing mitigations, reachability, and threat intel.