The threat landscape is accelerating. Adversaries are discovering vulnerabilities, evolving their tactics, and executing attacks faster than many security teams can adapt their defenses.
Organizations, meanwhile, face a surplus of threat data but a shortage of actionable intelligence. Security teams are inundated with indicators, alerts, vulnerabilities, reports, and feeds, but often lack the context to identify the threats that matter to their environment and the ability to translate intelligence into immediate defensive action.
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42® Threat Intelligence redefines how organizations access and turn threat data into action by bringing together Cortex® eXtended Threat Intelligence (XTI) and Unit 42 Threat Intel Services. Built on a shared intelligence foundation, Cortex XTI embeds Unit 42 insights directly into SOC workflows, while Unit 42 services provide direct access to the analysts behind those insights. The result enables security teams to move from consuming intel to acting on it with confidence and speed.
The Unit 42 Intelligence Foundation
Powered by industry-leading threat research, massive global telemetry, and lessons from thousands of incident response engagements, our engine fuses AI-scale analysis with deep human expertise to deliver curated, continuously updated intelligence. It transforms fragmented threat data into high-confidence insights on emerging campaigns, malware, and adversary tactics, providing the context necessary to prioritize risk and take decisive action.
Cortex XTI: Activate Intelligence Across the SOC
Cortex XTI acts as the operational intelligence layer for the Cortex platform, by embedding Unit 42 insights directly into the tools where analysts investigate, hunt, and respond. By integrating high-fidelity Unit 42 findings, global telemetry, organizational context, and agentic reasoning, it surfaces relevant threats, maps them to your specific environment, and fuels faster response. The result is accelerated investigations, higher-confidence decisions, and more effective response actions.
Key Capabilities
- Unit 42 Threat Intel Library
- Unit 42 Indicator Feed
- Embedded intelligence in investigation workflows
- Automated IoC management and targeted alerting
- Behavioral Threat Analysis
- TI-based playbooks and automations
Unit 42 Threat Intel Services: Elite Expertise
Gain direct access to Unit 42 analysts for frontline expertise, expert context, and tailored guidance. Whether accelerating technical investigations, informing strategic planning, or supporting executive decisions, our experts help you prioritize risk and threats and build long-term cyber resilience.
Unit 42 Threat Intelligence Services are available through three complementary offerings, enabling you to choose the level of analyst engagement and intelligence capabilities that best align with your organization's needs.
Service Offerings
- Unit 42 Threat Intel Expertise
- Threat profile assessment
- Analyst On-Demand and 1:1 Briefings
- Ask 42 AI
- Agentic Malware Analysis (xMRE)
- Unit 42 Threat Feed
- Unit 42 Designated Threat Intel Analyst
- Unit 42 Deep and Dark Web Service
Global Threat Visibility, Integrated Intelligence, and Elite Expertise
Together, Cortex XTI and Unit 42 Threat Intel Services help your teams transform findings from indicators, alerts, and reports into actionable guidance, helping you to:
- See what matters. Prioritize the threats that matter most to your organization and improve analyst productivity.
- Understand the adversary. Understand attacker behavior to make faster, more informed security decisions.
- Operationalize intelligence. Turn intel into faster defensive action to strengthen your security posture and build greater cyber resilience.
Why Unit 42 Threat Intelligence
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Threat Intelligence redefines how you access and turn threat intelligence into action. Whether you embed native Unit 42 intelligence into your security operations with Cortex XTI or engage with Unit 42 experts, you gain the context and expertise needed to make more confident decisions, accelerate responsive actions, and strengthen your cyber resilience.
That advantage is powered by:
- Unmatched global visibility: We draw on Palo Alto Networks visibility across 38 trillion telemetry signals from firewalls, cloud instances, and endpoints at more than 70,000 customers; and, analyze billions of events and 9 million novel threats daily to identify the threats most relevant to your organization.
- Elite frontline expertise: Gain intelligence informed by thousands of incident response engagements, delivering battle-tested insights that go beyond threat indicators to provide real-world adversary context.
- Native platform integration: Eliminate manual overhead by embedding insights directly into the Cortex platform.
Learn more about Unit 42 Threat Intelligence.
About Unit 42
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 brings together world-renowned threat researchers, elite incident responders, and expert security consultants to create an intelligence-driven, response-ready organization that’s passionate about helping you proactively manage cyber risk. Together, our team serves as your trusted advisor to help assess and test your security controls against the right threats, transform your security strategy with a threat-informed approach, and respond to incidents in record time so that you get back to business faster. Visit paloaltonetworks.com/unit42.
