Strata Copilot now extends its reach to new regions, enhancing global accessibility. This expansion brings the powerful AI-driven assistance to users in South Africa. By increasing geographical coverage, Strata Copilot offers more organizations the opportunity to streamline their security operations, leverage intelligent insights, and improve overall efficiency in managing their Palo Alto Networks solutions in Strata Cloud Manager across these diverse locations.

The Strata Cloud Manager IOC Search functionality has been enhanced to help you identify and prioritize security threats by providing comprehensive context for various indicators of compromise. The IOC Search is powered by the Strata Logging Service, a cohesive cloud-based logging solution for personalized network security analytics, giving you deeper insights into potential threats across your environment.

When you search for indicators such as domains, URLs, file hashes (SHA-256), IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6), you receive detailed threat context and data telemetry specific to your tenant, your industry, and the global threat landscape. This multi-level visibility allows you to understand not only whether a specific indicator is malicious, but also its prevalence in your organization, and across the Palo Alto Networks customer base.

For each indicator you search, you can also view associated tags that provide additional context about the threats, helping you understand potential threat actor attribution, or if it is associated to a malware campaign, why it is deemed malicious.

As you investigate potential security incidents, the IOC Search gives you the enriched insights needed to make informed decisions about prioritization and response, ultimately helping you focus your security team's efforts on the most significant threats to your organization.

Strata Copilot has been redesigned to deliver more efficient intelligent assistance within Strata Cloud Manager. The updated interface will roll out in phases throughout July. Once deployed to your Strata Cloud Manager instance, you'll find Strata Copilot accessible directly from the left navigation panel, seamlessly integrating into your existing workflow.

The redesigned interface maintains visual consistency with Strata Cloud Manager by supporting both light and dark themes and featuring a responsive design that adapts to any screen size. For complex tasks requiring maximum screen space, you can collapse the navigation menu while retaining full access to chat functionality through the consistently placed chat box available on every page.

When you launch Strata Copilot, you will receive a personalized welcome message with suggested topics to help you quickly address common security management scenarios. As you interact with the system, contextually relevant prompts appear to guide your queries and help you formulate effective questions.

Strata Copilot now provides explanations and technical references within conversations to help you understand the reasoning behind suggestions. Complex information is presented in a structured format with specialized display components that improve comprehension of technical content.

In addition, the Best Practice Assessment functionality within Strata Copilot has also been enhanced to provide more comprehensive security insights, enabling you to evaluate your security posture without leaving the Copilot interface. This integration streamlines your security assessment workflows and provides immediate access to actionable information to improve your security stance.

Managing network visibility and operational efficiency across diverse deployments like Prisma Access and NGFW often requires juggling multiple dashboards, leading to fragmented analysis. Activity Insights solves this critical challenge by giving you an in-depth, consolidated view of your network activities across Prisma Access and NGFW deployments. Activity Insights brings together the visualization, monitoring, and reporting capabilities from dashboards like Application Usage, Network Usage, User Activity, and Threat Insights, providing all this data in a single, unified view.

Activity Insights pairs with the new Strata Cloud Manager Command Center homepage ; for anomalies, security gaps, degraded user experiences, impacts on security and health of your network that the homepage surfaces, you can drill down into Activity Insights and other dashboards to investigate and assess next steps.

Activity Insights provides a unified view of network data in relation to applications, users, threats, URLs, and network usage. You can also view the performance of Prisma SD-WAN applications with details on health score over a time range, transaction statistics, and bandwidth utilization metrics. The advanced reporting functionality enables you to download, share, and schedule reports that cover the data in the Overview tab. The report presents data separately for each filter applied in Activity Insights.

Furthermore, Activity Insights now displays direct users who connect to your network infrastructure while disconnected from GlobalProtect®. Previously, ADEM collected event information for these users, but Activity Insights did not show them. Now, you can gain complete visibility into network activity regardless of connection status, significantly improving analysis and reporting capabilities.