Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 3 → 26 of 42
Microsoft Defender · 1 category · Named, not rankedMicrosoft Defender Experts for XDR
11Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
5 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
2 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR was named 2 times in MDR, where Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response led with 37%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business31 of 48
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market20 of 67
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise11 of 67
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
In mdr · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed detection and response | Security operations | 0% | 20 of 67 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · MDR · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 15 → 36 of 65
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 → 19 of 60
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDR | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 15 → 20 of 67 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative4 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained3 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“often a good fit if you're already standardized on Microsoft security tooling and want to consolidate” GPT-5.4 mini · MDR · direct prompt · alternative
“Mostly Microsoft: Evaluate Microsoft Defender Experts MDR first.” GPT-6 Luna · MDR · direct prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 11 of the 11 answers that named Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
crowdstrike.com8
learn.microsoft.comYour site8
expel.com5
forrester.com4
gartner.com4
rapid7.com4
channelinsider.com3
huntress.com3
acquisition-international.com2
arcticwolf.com2
Thirty-five of the forty-three domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 90 a month (“microsoft defender experts for xdr”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Microsoft Defender's site (microsoft.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 20 of 67 in MDR
Segment leader
37%
Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 11 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 11 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR; a claim can dispute any of them.
Microsoft Defender Experts / Microsoft-based MDR approach 1Microsoft Defender Experts MDR 1
Follow Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Microsoft Defender is the company behind Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR.ShowHide
The company
Microsoft Defender is the company behind Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Microsoft Defender
- Microsoft Defender ATP, Microsoft Defender Attack Simulation Training, Microsoft Defender Experts, Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Microsoft Defender TI, Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, Microsoft Defender XDR and 12 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Enhance security with Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, combining managed XDR and security expert support to elevate your Microsoft Security solutions.
- For
- customers with constrained SOCs that are overburdened with alert volume, in need of skilled experts, or both
- Customers named
- ElancoWestminster School
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/services/microsoft-defender-experts-mdr. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.