Forrester is one among several analyst firms that in recent months has noted the rapid emergence of XDR as an approach to mitigating cyberthreats from the enterprise endpoint to the cloud. Gartner, for instance, views XDR tools — as well as machine learning and automation — as key to improving threat detection accuracy and security productivity, especially for resource strapped security operations centers (SOCs). Omdia has described it as a technology that is "quickly taking the enterprise cybersecurity industry by storm." In a recent survey, ESG Group found 70% of organizations are already using or considering XDR. Another survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of FireEye found organizations intended to spend an average of $333,150 on XDR in 2020, compared with $183,150 on security information and event management (SIEM) and $345,150 on security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR).