XDR vs. EDR: What Hospitality IT Leaders Need to Know Before Their Next Security Review

Hotel and hospitality environments have an attack surface that traditional EDR was never designed for: PMS systems talking to POS terminals, guest Wi-Fi segments bridging staff networks, keycard middleware running on EOL Windows, and a third-party vendor ecosystem that rotates quarterly. This article unpacks the difference between EDR and XDR in concrete hospitality terms — and the three XDR capabilities that materially change your breach detection window.