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Prevent AI-Driven Attack Execution
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## Four key use cases for future-proofing your endpoint defense for the agentic era.

Frontier AI models now discover zero-day vulnerabilities and execute complex exploits autonomously in minutes. Relying on legacy, signature-based defenses leaves your endpoints and expanding AI infrastructure exposed to these machine-speed threats.

This whitepaper explains a proactive defense strategy for the agentic era. Discover how combining Cortex XDR^®^ and Koi Agentic Endpoint Security provides a unified platform to defend against frontier AI-driven threats and secure every endpoint.

Explore four critical strategies of proactive endpoint defense:

* Automated exploit prevention: Combine proactive vulnerability scanning and automated deployment guardrails to block exploitation techniques before damage occurs.

* Intelligent threat sandboxing: Automatically sandbox unknown files to analyze behavior and block unexpected command-and-control communication.

* Continuous agent governance: Eliminate blind spots in agentic environments by tracking agent lifecycles and utilizing behavioral telemetry to block compromised agents.

* AI-powered code analysis: Expose obfuscated payloads and analyze underlying code intent to stop fileless attacks before they execute.

Equip your security operations with the unified visibility and real-time enforcement to outmatch the next generation of AI-driven attacks.  
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