Security professionals are feeling the squeeze from all directions, from hybrid cloud environments, increasingly sophisticated threat actors, siloed data and tools. XDR, or eXtended Detection and Response, is emerging as the solution that drives real productivity gains and saves security teams time. It is becoming increasingly clear that as the complexity of enterprise systems grows, we need a contemporary solution to find and address threats and speed response across the enterprise. The XDR must check off at least three basic must-haves: It must make all data accessible; it must facilitate real-time threat detection, alerts and hunting across multiple tools and domains.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/crowdstrike/xdr-what-it-is-what-it-isn-t