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How to Transform Your SOC Through XDR and MDR

In a recent Palo Alto Networks webcast, experts highlighted that modern attackers compress breach timelines to under an hour, overwhelming traditional SOC processes. They argued that XDR platforms like Cortex XDR solve the data‑silo problem by unifying telemetry across endpoints, cloud, network and identity, dramatically reducing alert noise. MDR services then layer expert threat‑hunting and rapid containment on top of XDR, ensuring human judgment where automation falls short. Palo Alto’s new Managed XSIAM offering extends this model into a fully managed SOC, handling detection engineering, automation and ongoing optimization.