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AI Podium is live for Cortex AES (Koi) — rehearse your demo pitch with real-time AI feedback inside the tenant. Dedicated AI Podiums for Quantum, NGTS, and AIRS are coming soon. Intro videos: Demo Zone overview · AI Podium overview. Source: Demo Zone for Partners.

Launchers

Network Security Tenants

PAN-OS
The NGFW management UI on PAN-OS — show App-ID visibility, security policy, decryption, and Cloud-Delivered Security Services on a live firewall.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: PAN-OS / Panorama plan
Panorama
Centralized multi-firewall management console — the legacy-needs demo for customers not yet ready to move management to Strata Cloud Manager.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: PAN-OS / Panorama plan
Strata Cloud Manager
The cloud-delivered management and AIOps console — unified visibility across NGFW, SASE, and SD-WAN, posture dashboards, and the Zero Trust Posture Center.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: PAN-OS / Panorama plan
Next Generation Trust Security (NGTS)
Automated certificate lifecycle management and SaaS-based private PKI orchestration — the live environment behind the 47-day certificate-validity story.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: NGTS plan
Device Security
ML-based asset discovery and risk prioritization across IT, IoT, and industrial OT — demo unmanaged-device visibility a customer didn't know they had.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: Device Security plan
Prisma AIRS
AI Runtime Security — live threat prevention, risk assessment, and posture management across AI apps, models, data, and agents. The centerpiece of any AI security conversation.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: Prisma AIRS plan
Prisma Browser
The secure enterprise browser admin portal in SCM — demo BYOD, contractor, and VDI-replacement use cases without deploying an agent.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: Prisma Browser plan
SASE Demos (Prisma Access & SD-WAN)
Prisma Access and Prisma SD-WAN demo environments — ZTNA 2.0, ADEM, and branch transformation stories. Access route is inside the plan's mandatory course.
Open SASE Plan & Demos Unlocked by: SASE Security plan
SaaS Security Quick Link Only
SaaS application visibility, risk scoring, and data-protection demos — shadow-SaaS discovery and posture. No learning plan exists yet; launch directly.
Launch Tenant No unlock plan — direct launch

Launchers

Security Operations Tenants

Cortex XSIAM (SE Demo)
The full XSIAM 3.6 SE tenant pre-loaded with incidents, playbooks, and analytics — Frontier AI model choice, Cortex XTI, and natural-language dashboards.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: Cortex XSIAM plan
Cortex XDR (XDR Labs)
Dedicated XDR labs tenant on Cortex XDR 5.2 — endpoint protection, network and cloud detections, and automated investigation workflows for hands-on demos.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: Cortex XDR plan
Cortex AES (Koi) AI Podium
Agentic endpoint security for AI-driven developer and agent environments — and the only tenant with live AI Podium pitch rehearsal built in.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: Cortex AES (Koi) plan
Cortex AgentiX (SE Demo)
Agentic AI automation inside the shared SE demo tenant — autonomous SOC workflows, SOAR playbooks, and MCP-based agent interoperability (AgentiX 1.4).
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: Cortex AgentiX plan
Cortex Cloud
The unified cloud security platform (C3) — posture plus runtime with workflows that bridge Cloud Security and SOC teams. Your Wiz-compete demo environment.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: Cortex Cloud C3 plan
Cortex Advanced Email Security
The Email Command Center — multi-source email detections, riskiest-user investigation, and remediation from one-click Quick Actions to custom playbooks.
Launch Tenant Unlocked by: Advanced Email Security plan