Cortex XSIAM

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM — pulls correlated incidents and supports XQL queries over the platform's data lake. Endpoint isolation is exposed as an agent action.

• Connector id: cortex_xsiam
• Category: siem

Configuration

Field	Label	Type	Required	Default	Notes
tenant_fqdn	Tenant FQDN	string	yes	—	Found in the XSIAM console under Settings → API Keys.
api_key_id	API Key ID	secret	yes	—	encrypted at rest
api_key	API Key	secret	yes	—	encrypted at rest

Credential handling

api_key_id, api_key are encrypted at rest by the credential vault before the row is written, and decrypted only at poll time. The value is never logged and never returned by the API — a read of the saved connector shows the field as set, not its contents. See credential vault.

Setup

1. In the console, go to Connectors → Add connector and pick Cortex XSIAM.
2. Fill in the fields above and run Test connection. The test is read-only and does not save anything.
3. Save. Polling starts on a jittered schedule within about a minute; the connector row shows last_sync once the first poll completes.

If last_sync stays empty

The first poll is the honest signal that the credential works. A connector that saves cleanly and never syncs usually means the credential lacks a scope the vendor requires for reads — check the connectors service log for the vendor's own error, which is passed through verbatim rather than summarised.

Vendor-specific setup notes go here: which console page issues the credential, which scopes to grant, rate limits, and anything the schema cannot express. This section is preserved when the page is regenerated.