Cortex Cloud vs. Vectra AI Platform

Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, the next version of Prisma Cloud, understands a unified security approach is essential for effectively addressing AppSec, CloudSec, and SecOps. Connecting cloud security and SOC workflows enables teams to achieve holistic visibility, trace risk across the lifecycle, and correlate real-time threat activity with development and runtime contexts. Cortex Cloud is a unified platform built on three core pillars: data integration, AI-driven intelligence, and automation.

The Vectra AI Platform helps security teams detect and stop real attacks that evade traditional security controls across network, identity, cloud, and SaaS environments. It provides real-time visibility into how attackers move through hybrid and multi-cloud environments, enabling teams to understand attack activity early and respond before incidents escalate. By correlating attacker behavior across the full attack lifecycle, the platform reduces alert noise and surfaces high-confidence threats that matter most.