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Microsoft Defender XDR

Microsoft's XDR suite — Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, Office 365 and Cloud in a correlated incident view.

Overview

Microsoft Defender XDR in practice

Microsoft Defender XDR joins Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Office 365 and Cloud Apps into a single incident view: signals from devices, mailboxes and sign-ins arrive as one correlated incident rather than four separate alerts. Its strongest component is automatic attack disruption, which isolates affected accounts or devices on its own when confidence is high, before an analyst intervenes.

Two limits belong in every plan: raw data for advanced hunting is queryable for 30 days only, other portal data for 180 days — anyone who needs to look back further requires Microsoft Sentinel or an export into their own storage. In licensing terms Defender XDR usually arrives with Microsoft 365 E5 or the E5 Security add-on. Alendris deploys Defender XDR as a Zero Trust baseline for endpoints, tied to Intune compliance policies, Conditional Access and custom detection rules in Sentinel.