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Cortex XSOAR

Composite Score

7.9 /10

CX Score

8.2 /10

20 Reviews Write a Review

What is Cortex XSOAR?

Cortex XSOAR is a comprehensive security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platform that unifies case management, automation, real-time collaboration, and threat intelligence management to serve security teams across the incident lifecycle.

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Awards & Recognition

Cortex XSOAR won the following awards in the Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

6 Top Rated Capabilities

11 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

5 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2023

Cortex XSOAR Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+99 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Cortex XSOAR?

0% Negative

0% Neutral

100% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Automated Phishing Handling

Integration Capabilities

Team Collaboration

Dashboards

Case Management

Integration with IR Management

Management and Sharing of Intelligence

Data Model

Orchestrate & Automate

Playbooks/Runbooks and Workflow Builder

Document & Artifact Storage

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Cortex XSOAR Reviews

Shashikant P.

Role: Operations
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

I like this product because of ease of management

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Cortex XSOAR from other similar products?

Ease of management

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of management and nice reporting

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing, I like 👍

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You can go for it if you want decent reports and ease of management

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Efficient Service
Inspires Innovation

Role: Consultant
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Easy to use but a bit pricy

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Kavyansh P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

CORTEX XSOAR - Best Security Orch. Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Cortex XSOAR from other similar products?

Cortex XSOAR has Playbook feature, just drag and drop some conditional functional blocks and you playbook is active. It will run on multiple incidents and took required actions automatically.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1. Playbook (runbook). 2. Dashboards includes pie chart, bar charts etc

What do you dislike most about this product?

Developers docs requires improvement.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If someone looking for security orchestration platform and that do more than 80% automation work - Cortex XSOAR is the solutoin

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

How We Deliver

Cortex XSOAR

What is Cortex XSOAR?

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Cortex XSOAR Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+99 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Cortex XSOAR?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Automated Phishing Handling Eliminate the burden of manually analyzing and remediating the growing volume of phishing emails.

Integration Capabilities Flexible playbooks to support integration workflows and REST API to allow flexibility in integration development.

Team Collaboration Team-based notifications and tasking, commenting and markdown support and escalation management.

Dashboards Create multiple, custom dashboards tailored to different teams.

Case Management Reduction in false positives by integrating threat intelligence directly in case reports by linking cases and to historical or other ongoing cases.

Integration with IR Management Support how an organization plans, manages, tracks and coordinates the response to a security incident.

Management and Sharing of Intelligence The ability to heavily leverage a REST API and represent data in a way that can be shared among multiple teams and tools. STIX/TAXII support.

Data Model Flexible data model that supports bespoke indicators. Associations can be formed between different objects, e.g. between threat actors and their capabililities.

Orchestrate & Automate Ability to prioritize mission-critical playbooks. Performance easily monitored from central location with no execution limits and additional servers as needed.

Playbooks/Runbooks and Workflow Builder Solution should enable playbook and workflow creation and modification using simple techniques—such as drag-and-drop interfaces.

Document & Artifact Storage Extensible storage to meet growing needs. The ability to link documents and artifacts to relevant intelligence or other information.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Cortex XSOAR Reviews

Shashikant P.

I like this product because of ease of management

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Easy to use but a bit pricy

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kavyansh P.

CORTEX XSOAR - Best Security Orch. Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Automated Phishing Handling

Integration Capabilities

Team Collaboration

Dashboards

Case Management

Integration with IR Management

Management and Sharing of Intelligence

Data Model

Orchestrate & Automate

Playbooks/Runbooks and Workflow Builder

Document & Artifact Storage

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation