User Reviews of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks & Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Updated April 2025

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks review

Mohammad Qaw
Mohammad Qaw
Senior Security Consultant at helpag
Perfect correlation and XDR capabilities for network traffic plus endpoint security
The solution should force customers to integrate with network traffic to see the full benefits of XDR. If you are not integrating it or feeding in your network traffic, then you are just buying a normal antivirus which doesn't make any sense. You are paying double the price to use the antivirus feature or to say you have XDR, but in reality...
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint review

AnuragSrivastava
AnuragSrivastava
Information Security Engineering Lead at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Provides detailed visibility into threats but the ability to add exceptions needs...
One major item for improvement is the ability to add exceptions. We can add some exceptions, but not at the level we need to. The second major area for improvement involves enhanced capabilities for different operating systems or platforms. That is, even though we have coverage for different operating systems or platforms such as Linux, we...

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