What is Microsoft Defender XDR?
Coordinate cyberthreat response across your entire digital estate and quickly stop cyberattacks with Microsoft Defender XDR (formerly Microsoft 365 Defender), a unified, AI-powered XDR solution. Accelerate security operations center (SOC) response with incident-level visibility and automatic cyberattack disruption with extended detection and response (XDR). Remediate cyberthreats efficiently with a complete view of the cyberattack chain informed by 65 trillion daily signals and prioritized investigation and response at the incident level.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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97 Plan to Renew
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77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+84 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Defender XDR?
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- Helps Innovate
- Efficient Service
- Continually Improving Product
- Inspires Innovation
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Real-Time Threat and Anomaly Detection
Risk Scoring & Remediation Act
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24/7/365 Security Monitoring
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Microsoft Defender XDR Reviews
VAMSI M.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2026
Well Integrated and Clean User Interface
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Defender XDR from other similar products?
It integrates well with Microsoft environment and provides better security compared to other alternatives with competitive prices.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
User interface and cloud integration at one place
What do you dislike most about this product?
None as of now.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you use Microsoft products it's the best deal in the market.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Unique Features
- Inspires Innovation
Parth R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Government
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2026
Automated, smart and integrated security
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Defender XDR from other similar products?
I think the obvious one is it's integration with Microsoft products,easy to license , which is difficult for other similar products. Also, it's AI based detection is great.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
AI based detection, I mean the scale of intelligence it uses
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to dislike for now
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
To for sure consider this product if they are already using Microsoft services and looking for integration of a security platform. To also use its automated investigations & remediation actions
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Mohd Shadab F.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2026
Unifoed console and easy to learn UX
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Defender XDR from other similar products?
The most critical differentiation is that it is natively integrated across all microsoft security ecosystem. The second one for me is that it provides a unified standpoint console for threat detection and response.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favourite aspect is the unified console for threat detection and response.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Since I have recently started using this product, I don't have any specific dislikes yet. So far, I'm happy with the features and UX.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
They should go for it if they are already using systems/services that are a part of the microsoft ecosystem as this will fit right in while having native integration across all other microsoft security ecosystem.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
