User Reviews of Microsoft Defender XDR

Updated September 2026

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Microsoft Defender XDR review

reviewer2812758
Infosec at a government with 10,001+ employees
Integrated defenses have unified threat hunting, phishing simulations, and...
I appreciate Microsoft Defender XDR's MDE, Microsoft Defender tool, which has Attack Simulator. Instead of doing a phishing campaign and getting a separate tool, Microsoft Defender XDR does it all. These features of Microsoft Defender XDR have helped us conduct a phishing campaign quarterly, which has been beneficial. I also appreciate the...
Microsoft Defender XDR review

Wilson Ye
Wilson Ye
CISO at Loeb & Loeb LLP
Advanced telemetry has improved investigations and enables rapid host isolation...
What I appreciate most about Microsoft Defender XDR is the ability to drill down to the process level, the visibility of processes, and the file-level details of what processes are accessing, including the IP addresses for outbound connections. This gives me the advanced telemetry to understand what is happening on that machine at that...

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