CrowdStrike Adds Microsoft Defender Support to Falcon SIEM (3 minute read)

2026-03-26

CrowdStrike's Falcon Next-Gen SIEM now ingests and analyzes Microsoft Defender for Endpoint data, allowing customers to keep Defender while centralizing detection and response in Falcon. Vendors are now embracing competitor tooling as data sources, accelerating the move toward unified security platforms instead of rip-and-replace strategies.