If you work in security operations, you already know: EDR delivers unmatched telemetry. It’s the foundation for endpoint visibility, recording every process, every connection, every anomalous behavior.

But data alone doesn’t equal action.

Without intelligent investigation, alert correlation, and triage, even the best EDR platforms end up flooding your SOC with thousands of events. Instead of clarity, you get chaos. Instead of insight, you get inbox fatigue.

And that applies whether you’re using:

• CrowdStrike Falcon
• SentinelOne Singularity
• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Cybereason
• Cortex XDR
• Elastic Security
• Trellix / McAfee

These are world-class telemetry engines, but they don’t solve the triage, investigation, or resolution burden on their own. Morpheus takes it from there.

XDR Promised Correlation, But Often Delivered Volume

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) attempts to bring EDR, cloud, identity, email, and network data under one roof. But without real automation layered on top, it just results in more alerts from more domains, with no triage relief in sight.

You’re left with more visibility, but not more outcomes.

Why Playbooks Alone Can’t Handle It

Traditional SOAR systems offer “playbooks” as a solution, but they require:

• Dozens of templates per tool and alert type
• Constant tuning and brittle integrations
• Manual stitching of timelines and context
• Time-consuming, engineering-heavy upkeep

What starts as “automation” becomes another layer of technical debt.

Morpheus: Turning EDR/XDR Data Into Autonomous Security Outcomes

Morpheus isn’t just a SOAR replacement. It’s the system that makes your EDR and XDR investments operational. It builds intelligent investigations on top of the telemetry your tools already produce, without the fragility of playbook sprawl.

It Starts With the Foundation: Telemetry

Morpheus ingests the full depth of EDR/XDR telemetry — process trees, command lines, file hashes, user behavior, threat scores — and uses it to:

• Reconstruct end-to-end incident timelines
• Detect multi-stage attack patterns (e.g., LOLBins, persistence, lateral movement)
• Correlate across endpoints, identities, and tools
• Enrich with threat intel and asset/business context

That raw data becomes actionable intelligence — instantly.

From Data to Decision Without Static Playbooks

Morpheus dynamically generates case-specific investigation and response playbooks based on:

• Real-time telemetry
• Threat behavior mapping (MITRE ATT&CK)
• Organizational policy
• Environmental context (sensitive assets, user roles)

Each step is:

• Transparent
• Auditable
• Policy-aligned
• Visualized in a live, editable interface

Noise Reduction That Works

You already have the foundation. Now build on it. Morpheus investigates every alert — and autonomously closes, escalates, or clusters them based on risk, impact, and historical context. SOCs using Morpheus have reduced EDR/XDR alert volume by 90–95%, without increasing risk exposure.
EDR and XDR are exceptional at seeing what’s happening. Morpheus is exceptional at knowing what to do about it, building on the most powerful telemetry you already own. Help your teams:

• Eliminate L1 triage
• Cut MTTR by 80–90%
• Drastically reduce false positives
• Focus analysts on real incidents, not log surfing

Every step is transparent and governed: AI-generated playbooks are automatically unit-tested and integration-tested before production, then routed through GitHub pull requests for review and approval. SOC teams get defensible audit trails and board-ready metrics, so autonomy doesn’t mean losing control.

Want to see how Morpheus builds autonomy on top of your EDR/XDR foundation? Book your demo now.

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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from D3 Security authored by Alex MacLachlan. Read the original post at: https://d3security.com/blog/edr-xdr-ai-soc-foundation/