Cortex XDR: Prevention and Deployment (EDU-260)

 

Course Overview

This instructor-led training enables you to prevent attacks on your endpoints. After an overview of the Cortex XDR components, the training introduces the Cortex XDR management console and demonstrates how to install agents on your endpoints and how to create Security profiles and policies. The training enables you to perform and track response actions, tune profiles, and work with Cortex XDR alerts. It concludes by discussing basic troubleshooting of the agent, the on-premises Broker VM component, and Cortex XDR deployment.

Who should attend

  • Cybersecurity Analysts
  • Cybersecurity Engineers
  • Security Operations Specialists

Prerequisites

Participants must be familiar with enterprise product deployment, networking, and security concepts

Course Objectives

Successful completion of this instructor-led course with hands-on lab activities should enable you to:

  • Describe the architecture and components of the Cortex XDR family
  • Use the Cortex XDR management console, including reporting
  • Create Cortex XDR agent installation packages, endpoint groups, and policies
  • Deploy Cortex XDR agents on endpoints
  • Create and manage Exploit and Malware Prevention profiles
  • Investigate alerts and prioritize them using starring and exclusion policies
  • Tune Security profiles using Cortex XDR exceptions
  • Perform and track response actions in the Action Center
  • Perform basic troubleshooting related to Cortex XDR agents
  • Deploy a Broker VM and activate the Local Agents Settings applet
  • Understand Cortex XDR deployment concepts and activation requirements
  • Work with the Customer Support Portal and Cortex XDR Gateway for authentication and authorization

Follow On Courses

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training

Duration
3 days

Price
  • 2,495.— €
Classroom Training

Duration
3 days

Price
  • Germany: 2,495.— €
  • Switzerland: CHF 2,730.—
  • Palo Alto Networks Training Credits: 27 PTC
    excl. tax

Schedule

Guaranteed date:   The course is guaranteed to run regardless of the number of participants. This excludes unforeseeable events (e.g. accident, illness of the trainer) which make it impossible to carry out the course.
Instructor-led Online Training:   Course conducted online in a virtual classroom.
FLEX Classroom Training (hybrid course):   Course participation either on-site in the classroom or online from the workplace or from home.

English

European Time Zones

Online Training Time zone: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Online Training Time zone: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Online Training Time zone: British Summer Time (BST)
Online Training Time zone: British Summer Time (BST)
Online Training Time zone: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

4 hours difference to Central European Time (CET)

Online Training Time zone: India Standard Time (IST)

6 hours difference to Central European Time (CET)

Online Training Time zone: Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Online Training Time zone: Eastern Standard Time (EST)

7 hours difference to Central European Time (CET)

Online Training Time zone: Singapore Time (SGT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Standard Time (CST)
Online Training Time zone: Central Standard Time (CST)

9 hours difference to Central European Time (CET)

Online Training Time zone: Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDT)
Online Training Time zone: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
Online Training Time zone: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
FLEX Classroom Training (hybrid course):   Course participation either on-site in the classroom or online from the workplace or from home.

Germany

Hamburg
Berlin
Frankfurt
Munich
Hamburg

If you can't find a suitable date, don't forget to check our world-wide FLEX training schedule.