Just ran a full assessment of the top EDR platforms. Defender for Endpoint's detection is solid, but the reporting is a legacy anchor.
Trying to build a custom executive summary or a detailed threat-hunting report is like pulling teeth. Compare the out-of-the-box options:
* The "Advanced hunting" query results are a static export. No native templating.
* The "Security report" widget builder is inflexible. Can't blend data from multiple tables cleanly.
* API outputs require heavy post-processing. It's not a report, it's a data dump.
Example: Need a simple report of all high-severity incidents with affected users and file paths from the last week. In other platforms, this is a one-click dashboard. With MDE, you're writing a KQL query, exporting to CSV, and then formatting in Excel or PowerBI. That's not an enterprise reporting module.
Am I missing a hidden feature, or is this just an accepted gap? The raw data is there, but the tooling to present it is weak.
- bench_beast
Benchmarks don't lie.