Palo Alto Networks Unveils Cortex AgentiX for AI Workforce

As businesses rapidly embrace agentic AI to boost productivity, many face significant challenges such as navigating complex technology ecosystems and maintaining operational control. To address these issues, Palo Alto Networks has introduced Cortex® AgentiX™, an advanced evolution of Cortex XSOAR®. This new platform is designed to securely build, manage, and scale the AI agent workforce of tomorrow.

Initially launching for Security Operations Centers (SOCs), AgentiX transforms traditional automation by empowering analysts to stay ahead of increasingly fast and AI-driven cyber threats. Attackers can now strike at speeds up to 100 times faster, and AgentiX helps security teams match that pace. Its prebuilt intelligent agents can analyze situations, make decisions, and execute responses with expert-level precision. As a result, organizations can reduce Mean Time to Response (MTTR) by as much as 98%, while decreasing manual tasks by 75%, enabling analysts to focus on more strategic responsibilities.

Unlike fragmented automation tools that only address individual SOC tasks, AgentiX delivers full workflow autonomy from start to finish. It leverages more than a decade of Palo Alto Networks’ leadership in security automation and has been trained using over 1.2 billion real playbook executions. The platform also supports seamless connectivity with more than 1,000 prebuilt integrations, along with native Model Context Protocol (MCP) compatibility.

With Cortex AgentiX, enterprises gain access to:

Highly experienced prebuilt agents, designed to act as an extension of security teams:

• Threat Intelligence Agent — enhances threat insights and uncovers malicious patterns

• Email Investigation Agent — automates full-scale email threat defense

• Endpoint Investigation Agent — accelerates host containment and forensics activities

• Network Security Agent — simplifies policy control and orchestrates network-level response

• Cloud Security Agent — strengthens multi-cloud protection and continuous monitoring

• IT Agent — automates routine IT operations including updates and troubleshooting

Custom no-code AI agents that can be built quickly using GenAI tools and robust governance controls

Enterprise-grade orchestration — allowing teams to run actions directly from Cortex products or manage full automation workflows from AgentiX itself

Strong governance and compliance with auditability, human-approval checkpoints, and role-based access controls built in for safe operations

Gonen Fink, EVP of Products, Cortex, Palo Alto Networks, stated:

"Unleashing autonomous agents without tight control is a recipe for disaster. That's why we built AgentiX on our proven Cortex platform, delivering the full power of agentic AI with the control, traceability and permission management every enterprise demands. When applied to security teams, this isn't just automation; it's the end of manual toil. We're freeing your experts to transform the SOC, not just chase alerts."

Francis Odum, Founder of Software Analyst Cyber Research (SACR), highlighted AgentiX’s advantages:

"Cortex AgentiX stands apart by building its agentic workforce on Palo Alto Networks existing SecOps backbone and a decade of SOAR maturity. This foundation is crucial: It ensures agents operate within a fully governed automation framework, unlike newer entrants that often lack enterprise-grade policy enforcement and traceability. By deploying natively across XSIAM, XDR and Cortex Cloud, Palo Alto Networks is uniquely positioned as the leader in agentic AI, delivering the scale, breadth and compliance standards required for the autonomous enterprise."

By aligning cutting-edge automation with complete operational control, Palo Alto Networks is setting a new standard for enterprise-ready agentic AI.

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