What is Endpoint Detection & Response?

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools are leading-edge cybersecurity technologies that monitor and proactively protect your endpoints. In real-time EDR tools are watching over your desktop computers, laptops, mobile devices, and servers looking for any suspicious activity. EDR tools collect endpoint log data, apply automated rule-based response and security analysis capabilities, perform advanced heuristic analysis, and more. Unlike traditional Anti-Virus (AV), EDR is constantly on the scan looking for threats to your business such as malware, ransomware, and other suspicious threats.

Here are some benefits of EDR:

1. Guards on Duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
   The best EDR solutions leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide advanced capabilities to detect threats to your endpoints and respond to these threats, including the ability to isolate an endpoint from all network and Internet access if it can’t fully clean or stop a severe threat. EDR tools continuously monitor and collect data, analyzing behavior and incorporating automated responses to any suspicious or malicious activity.
2. Not Anti-Virus Tools, EDR Tools
   EDR Tools can detect stealthier malicious activity that traditional Anti-Virus tools don’t detect. Traditional AV solutions say they can block most malicious activities, but not all. That is why having an EDR Tool as an additional endpoint security solution is critical to protecting your organization from cyber threats.
3. Rapid Incident Response Capabilities
   EDR Tools enable your IT team to detect and respond to suspicious activity quickly. Real-time alerting and automated responses help your IT team investigate and mitigate threats quicker than ever. These response capabilities give your team the upper hand in the fight against cyber threats.
4. Confidence in Your Security Posture
   Many companies and IT teams often wonder “How secure are we right now?” EDR Tools give you and your IT team enhanced visibility into your IT network, no matter how vast. With EDR added to your cybersecurity strategy, you increase your visibility and add a critical layer of network security to protect your network, endpoints, and data. EDR Tools help with compliance like HIPAA, GDPR, ITAR, CMMC, FINRA, and PCI DSS.
5. Remote Work Force and EDR Tools
   EDR is even more crucial when you have a remote workforce. Personal devices (endpoints like cell phones, laptops, etc.) can be entry points for cyber threats within an organization. EDR helps your employees to work on your network, from their homes, and stay protected from cybercriminals. By proactively protecting your organization’s endpoints and your employee’s endpoints that access your network you are leveling up your cybersecurity posture.