The enterprise landscape is undergoing a monumental shift. AI agents are transforming productivity, executing complex tasks autonomously across our digital ecosystems. But this new frontier brings an entirely new attack surface, one that legacy EDR was simply never built to protect.
At Palo Alto Networks, we saw this shift coming. We believe we are to secure this new landscape, which is why I am incredibly proud to share that Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises 2026 Vendor Assessment. For us, this recognition validates Cortex XDR as for modern endpoint defense. As the pioneer of XDR, we believe we are defining what comes next: securing the frontier of agentic AI and redefining endpoint security. Built for the endpoint, ready for agents, and secured with AI.
Securing the Next Frontier of Endpoint Defense
Cortex XDR delivers industry-leading prevention and control over AI agents to stop the threats legacy tools miss. According to the IDC MarketScape “Cortex Agentic Endpoint Security's differentiated, AI-native visibility, risk scoring, and enforcement over AI agents, agentic tools, and software supply chain risk on the endpoint."
How Cortex XDR Protects Your Modern Frontier
- Secure Agentic Endpoint: Gain real-time visibility, risk scoring, and guardrails across autonomous AI agents, agentic tools, and software supply chains on the endpoint.
- AI-Powered Prevention: Stop advanced threats with battle-tested prevention powered by behavioral analytics, automation, and response. In fact, IDC MarketScape cited, "Cortex XDR earned a perfect AAA grade and 100% Total Accuracy Rating from SE Labs, blocking all 556 tested ransomware variants with zero false positives, and is certified in both the AV-Comparatives EDR Detection and Anti-Tampering tests, demonstrating full visibility across a 12-step attack chain while resisting all attempts to disable or modify the agent; the company states these results are achieved without custom code written for the tests."
- Unify Your Defense: Consolidate endpoint, network, cloud, email and identity telemetry through a single agent on a shared data lake. , We are honored by this recognition, an achievement we share directly with our customers and partners. Your trust, feedback, and real-world challenges drive our innovation every single day. Our consistent is built on one core promise: secure the frontier of agentic AI and make each day safer than the last.
To get the full story and a comprehensive analysis of the IDC Marketscape, I invite you to read the excerpt here.
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises 2026 Vendor Assessment, #US54123526, September 2026
