Excellent all-in-one security solution for Microsoft users
July 15, 2025

Excellent all-in-one security solution for Microsoft users

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender XDR

Microsoft Defender XDR is a must have solution if you rely on Microsoft products, especially in Azure. It provides excellent overview of the security posture in our company, represents valuable source of data, providing huge amount of information which can be used for different kinds of investigations and in conjunction with utilizing builtin/custom detections to detect different kinds suspicious events

Pros

  • Logging
  • Alerting
  • Detection
  • Prevention

Cons

  • improve customization of detection rules
  • improve automatic investigations speed
  • improve remediation scope (some emails from same sender in a phishing campaign are quarantined some are not)
  • increased SOC efficiency
  • ROI negligible
One of the most complex things is the licensing, we needed many iterations with Microsoft to define all needed details.
We are using partially using it, it has a lot of space for improvement, especially on speed. I expect it to evolve a lot with the help od AI. For now we are approving each remediation action.
We have integrated Microsoft Defender XDR with Microsoft Sentinel. In the beginning it was difficult, now it is working as expected.
Falcon Crowdstrike is better than Microsoft XDR in terms of EDR, but in terms of the whole suite, Crowdstrike is lacking a lot of capabilities (email, Purview...)

Do you think Microsoft Defender XDR delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Defender XDR's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Defender XDR live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Defender XDR go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Defender XDR again?

Yes

Microsoft Defender is an excellent all-in-one solution for managing and monitoring the overall security posture, especially if you rely on Microsoft products. By my opinion, each segment of the suite can be replaced by a better product from a different specialized vendor, but you will lack the benefits of the integration between them. In the today's world of neverending security challenges and solutions, this fact is more than important.

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