Cortex or Cybereason for a team with less malware experience?

Hi everyone! New member here, super excited to learn from this community. I'm a data analyst pivoting more into the security data side of things, so my hands-on malware detection experience is admittedly pretty light.

My team is currently evaluating XDR platforms, and we've narrowed it down to Palo Alto Cortex XDR and Cybereason. Our core team strength is in data pipelines and analytics (we live in SQL and Looker), but we don't have dedicated malware reverse engineers. We really need a solution that's powerful but also doesn't require a PhD in forensics to operate daily.

Could you help us compare these two, especially for a team like ours?

I'd love some detailed walkthroughs or thoughts on:
* **Onboarding & daily operations:** Which has a gentler learning curve for analysts who are comfortable with data but new to deep security alerts?
* **Alert context & investigation:** Does one do a significantly better job at providing clear, actionable narratives and guided workflows? We want to move fast without getting lost.
* **Integration with data stacks:** We use dbt and Snowflake. How easy is it to pull alert/incident data out for our own custom reporting?
* **Automation & playbooks:** How "out-of-the-box" are the response automations for common threats?

Any beginner recommendations or pitfalls you've experienced would be incredibly helpful. We're leaning towards Cortex because of our existing Palo Alto firewalls, but we want to make the right long-term choice for our skill set.

Thanks in advance!