June 4, 2024 - This Wave evaluates all traditional EDR features as well as XDR capabilities, such as additional detection surfaces beyond the endpoint.

July 23, 2025 - This evaluation marks a turning point for the security analytics platform market. XDR vendors such as CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks have staked their claim for what they consider a new era of SIEM capabilities — one that is heavily focused ...

July 3, 2025 - Forrester states that “Microsoft is refining the most complete XDR offering in the market today,” and called out “its dedication to innovation is demonstrated by its percentage of the R&D budget by revenue, which rivals the most innovative ...

June 3, 2024 - Cortex XDR also received a score of 5/5 in the following areas: response, threat hunting, administrative controls, analyst experience, deployment model, training and community. Its company vision – a world where each day is more secure than ...

August 2, 2021 - We continue to recommend security pros experimentally use XDR as part of their security strategy while the technology is still relatively nascent and has not reached maturity for mainstream adoption. This New Tech report serves as a market overview for this critical emerging technology and precedes the Forrester XDR New Wave™, expected to publish in Q4 2021.

November 29, 2023 - As you can see in the landscape, the top core use case of XDR is the native detection surface: endpoint (aka, EDR). Therefore, any evaluation of XDR will include a thorough evaluation of what was formerly EDR. As such, the Forrester definition of XDR is:

According to Forrester, “The offering prioritizes analyst experience with the cleanest and most visually exceptional process tree of the vendors in this evaluation”, and “Organizations with smaller teams that want an easy-to-use, reliable ...

Zudem werden die Vorteile und Risiken erörtert, um Ihnen die Entscheidung für den richtigen XDR-Anbieter zu erleichtern. ... Sie können auf eine vollständige Kopie des Berichts „The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection And Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021“ in dieser Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse des Berichts über die Platzierung und die Bewertungen von Palo Alto Networks in The Forrester Wave™ zugreifen.

Mit Cortex XDR können SOCs mehr tun als nur ihre Erkennungs‑ und Abwehrprozesse zu beschleunigen.Sie können das Sicherheitsniveau insgesamt stärken und wertvolle Zeit zurückgewinnen. Holen Sie sich jetzt den Forrester Wave XDR-Bericht.

The Forrester New Wave™ provides a side-by-side comparison of top providers in an emerging market. ... In Forrester's evaluation of the emerging market for extended detection and response (XDR), we identified the 14 most significant providers in the category — Bitdefender, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Cybereason, Elastic, FireEye, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, Sophos, Trend Micro, and VMware — and evaluated them.

October 31, 2024 - Forrester has named CrowdStrike a “Leader” in The Forrester Wave™ Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2024 · According to Forrester, “CrowdStrike’s latest release positions it to win in the XDR market.” Forrester evaluated the most significant extended detection and response ...

Following a series of positive recognition by major analyst firms, Forrester named Trend Micro a Leader with the highest ranking in the current offering category in the first ever XDR vendor New Wave™ evaluation—in our view, further ...

April 6, 2022 - The “Round 4” evaluation results were published on March 31, 2022. As in previous rounds, Cortex XDR achieved outstanding results, with stronger results than most other participating vendors across the evaluated categories.

June 23, 2025 - We are excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Q4, 2021, receiving one of the highest scores in the strategy category. Microsoft 365 Defender was rated as “differentiated” in seven criteria including detection, investigation, and response, and remediation.

Forrester 25-criterion evaluation of endpoint security providers, identifying the most significant ones and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps security and risk (S&R) professionals select the right one for their needs.

February 1, 2024 - Forrester evaluated the "14 most significant providers in the category" that met their definition of XDR capabilities. Elastic is excited to be recognized as a contender so early in our journey. Notably, since Forrester's evaluation, Elastic released Limitless XDR, which includes the first general availability of our integrated endpoint security capabilities.

Microsoft Defender XDR received the highest scores in Forrester’s strategy, current offering, and market presence categories, and of the 22 evaluation criteria used by Forrester in its assessment, Microsoft took the highest possible spot across 15, including Endpoint Native Detection, Threat Hunting, Vision, Surface Investigation, Analyst Experience and Innovation. The Forrester Wave™ uses a transparent methodology to assist software, hardware, and IT services buyers in making well-informed purchasing decisions based on consistent assessment criteria across a range of vendor offerings.

Bitdefender achieved the maximum score possible in the Analyst Experience criterion in The Forrester XDR report, with Forrester noting that: “The offering prioritizes analyst experience with the cleanest and most visually exceptional process tree of the vendors in this evaluation.” and describing the product as “an easy-to-use, reliable XDR platform focused on detection and response". Endpoint protection and Product security are traditionally areas where Bitdefender excels, with Bitdefender consistently displaying top protection or detection results in independent evaluations such as AV-TEST, AV-Comparatives, or MITRE. Bitdefender has also been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security, Q4 2023 report with the report recognizing Bitdefender for its

June 7, 2024 - Analysts recognized Microsoft has the most data-rich endpoint information in this XDR evaluation. In addition, the Microsoft Defender suite's integration with native tools such as Defender for Cloud and Cloud Apps allows users to respond to alerts, search data, and create user-generated detections. However, some users find the licensing model restrictive and force practitioners to adopt it with the rest of the business. Forrester noted the solution is best suited for organizations that require massive-scale deployments.

The Cortex XDR · technology is both extremely powerful and well-integrated with other PANW products, making it · a strong choice for current clients of the vendor’s other products, but it’s not recommended as a · jumping off point into the PANW ecosystem.