EDR focus on protecting the endpoint, providing in-depth visibility and threat prevention for a particular device through its behavior analytics detection engines. XDR takes a wider view, integrating security across endpoints, cloud computing, email, and other solutions by analyzing the internal and external traffic with machine learning capabilities.

MDR is an outsourced security service that transfers the responsibility of network security to a team of experts specializing in threat detection and response, while XDR does not. In the XDR model, responsibility for management lies squarely in the organization implementing the XDR solution.

• Simplified workflows
• Machine learning-based analytics
• Automated response
• Visibility across the security spectrum.

XDR centralizes, normalizes, and correlates data from multiple sources, and these capabilities of XDR enable complete visibility and reduce false positives and increase reliability. It improves security teams’ productivity by allowing faster and more automated responses.

Protecting Networks:XDR can detect abnormal behavior anywhere in the network and reveal detailed information about how threats communicate. It automatically filters incidents to help identify real attacks.
Protecting Email Infrastructure:XDR detects email threats and identifies infected accounts. It can also detect attack patterns, such as frequently attacked users and mistakenly giving attackers access. It automatically quarantines emails, resets accounts, and blocks senders.
Protecting Cloud Workloads:XDR detects threats targeted against cloud servers, containers, or other workloads, identifies threat access points, and investigates the impact of threats on workloads.

Managed XDR is likely a cost increase from many security solutions due to its ML-based analysis and automated response capabilities. But on a closer look, it produces cost advantages and workload reductions that easily offset any additional investment an organization will make.