Microsoft is refining the most complete XDR offering in the market

More specifically, Microsoft Defender XDR achieved the highest possible ratings in 15 out of 22 evaluation criteria, such as Endpoint Native Detection, Surface Investigation, Threat Hunting, Analyst Experience, Vision, and Innovation.

Microsoft Defender XDR is a platform that provides comprehensive security across a business’s entire digital estate, enabling organisations to detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats in real-time. It leverages artificial intelligence, automation, and integration to deliver unified visibility, insights, and actions across endpoints, identities, email, cloud, and data.

Formerly known as Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender XDR reduces your workload with automated self-healing of menial tasks, hunts for cyber threats across all workloads and uncovers potential blind spots in your environment, and offers multi-tenant support to streamline incident management and cyberthreat hunting across multiple tenants. 

What is Microsoft Defender XDR?

Microsoft Defender XDR is a platform that provides comprehensive security across a business’s entire digital estate, enabling organisations to detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats in real-time. It leverages artificial intelligence, automation, and integration to deliver unified visibility, insights, and actions across endpoints, identities, email, cloud, and data.

Formerly known as Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender XDR reduces your workload with automated self-healing of menial tasks, hunts for cyber threats across all workloads and uncovers potential blind spots in your environment, and offers multitenant support to streamline incident management and cyberthreat hunting across multiple tenants. 

Microsoft’s leadership ranking

 “Microsoft is refining the most complete XDR offering in the market today,” according to Forrester, adding “its dedication to innovation is demonstrated by its percentage of the R&D budget by revenue, which rivals the most innovative vendors in security.”

Forrester’s recognition showcases that Microsoft Defender XDR is the broadest native XDR solution on the market, and that Microsoft’s most recent additions of Microsoft Defender for Cloud data and Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management data are critical to give the SOC access to end-to-end data. 

Forrester’s recognition highlights the unique strengths of Microsoft Defender XDR as the most comprehensive native XDR solution on the market, covering endpoints, email, identity, cloud, and IoT. It also shows that Microsoft’s recent additions of Microsoft Defender for Cloud data and Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management data are essential to provide the SOC with full visibility and context across the entire attack surface.