The four core workloads of Microsoft Defender XDR

Microsoft Defender Part 2: The Four Core XDR Workloads, Up Close

Deep dive into Microsoft Defender’s four XDR workloads. Endpoint EDR, Office 365 Safe Links, Identity lateral movement detection, and Cloud Apps shadow IT discovery. Includes a phishing-to-data-exfiltration attack scenario showing how XDR correlation transforms four separate alerts into one unified incident.

May 25, 2026 · 10 min · Dimosthenis Atteia