It’s Christmas week. Your SOC is running on caffeine, hope, and “we’ll patch after the holiday.” 🎄☕️
So yeah—EDR “leadership” into 2026 isn’t about who demo’d best. It’s who can contain at scale and survive reality: traffic spikes, portal weirdness, and… the intern pushing updates to prod. 🧑💻🎁🔥
Our (slightly ruthless) model:
CrowdStrike at 50% (±8) for cross-tenant scale + multi-tenant containment.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint at 35% (±7) for identity–cloud fusion + advantaged TCO in Microsoft-forward estates.
SentinelOne at 15% (±5) for on-device autonomy + ransomware rollback (especially in edge/branch chaos).
Also: MITRE 2025 participation drama + real-world outage headlines are a reminder that contractual update governance + rollback isn’t “legal busywork.” It’s uptime insurance.
If you had to pick ONE platform for 2026, what’s non-negotiable: containment speed, identity path coverage, or update safety?
Read / subscribe: https://blog.alphahunt.io/crowdstrike-vs-microsoft-defender-who-leads-edr-xdr-into-2026
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