Open XDR is extended detection and response built to work with the security tools you already run instead of replacing them. It ingests telemetry from endpoints, network sensors, cloud platforms, identity providers, and email, correlates it into unified cases, and drives response through the same integrations. The open part is the point: no rip and replace, no single-vendor lock-in.
enhanced.io is a channel-only Open XDR SOCaaS built exclusively for MSPs, with 400+ integrations across endpoint, network, cloud, identity and IoT/OT.
How Open XDR differs from EDR
EDR watches the endpoint and stops there. Open XDR treats the endpoint as one of several surfaces, correlating what the EDR sees with network traffic, cloud activity, and identity signals. An attack rarely stays on one surface. Detection built on one surface misses the shape of it.
How open differs from closed XDR
Closed XDR platforms correlate well, provided every data source comes from the same vendor. That works if your clients all run one stack. MSP client bases never do. Open XDR is built for the mixed estate: one client on Defender, another on SentinelOne, firewalls from three vendors, and everything still correlating in one place.
What it looks like in practice for an MSP
Each client keeps their existing tools. Sensors and connectors bring the telemetry into one multi-tenant platform. AI does the first-pass triage, correlating raw alerts into scored cases, and a human SOC investigates and responds. The MSP gets one pane across every client instead of a login per tool per client.
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