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

Updated April 2026

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks review

ABHISHEK_SINGH
ABHISHEK_SINGH
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based...
Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items....
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint review

Robert Arbuckle
Robert Arbuckle
Security Analyst III at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Automatically isolates threats and integrates with logging to reduce response time
Overall, I would evaluate the Microsoft support level that I receive at probably about a seven, but that depends on the day. It has been spotty. We have had issues where the urgency level of the Microsoft support is not as high as ours, especially during a data breach or potential data breach situation. We have had issues with some of the...

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