Endpoint Detection and Response
Nobody calls it antivirus anymore
If what protects your computers is still called antivirus, it is doing about a third of the job.
EDR watches behavior instead of file names. A process encrypting documents at three in the morning gets stopped even if nobody has seen it before.
Talk to a specialist about EDRThe difference, without the acronyms
Both run on the same laptop. Only one of them notices when something new happens.
Traditional antivirus
Compares files against a list of known threats. If the attack is new, or does not arrive as a file, it walks straight past.
EDR
Watches behavior instead of file names. It records what every process did, stops the ones that act like an attack, and lets you roll the machine back to before it started.
This is why an insurer, a customer security questionnaire or a C-TPAT validation asks whether you have EDR, and not whether you have antivirus.
What it actually does on the machine
Four capabilities that antivirus does not have, explained without marketing.
Behavioral detection
It does not need to recognize the malware. It recognizes what the malware does: mass encryption, credential dumping, a process spawning where it never spawns.
Automatic containment
The endpoint is isolated from the network the moment it starts behaving badly, before anybody reads an alert. The infection stops at one machine.
Rollback
Files that were already encrypted are restored to their previous state on that machine. It is the difference between an incident and a shutdown.
Forensic timeline
What got in, when, through which door, and what it touched. It is the answer your insurer and your customer are going to ask for in writing.
And where XDR comes in
EDR sees the endpoint. XDR correlates the endpoint with everything else: the firewall, identity, mail and cloud workloads.
One machine flagging a suspicious login is noise. That same login preceded by a blocked connection at the perimeter and a password reset from another country is an intrusion. XDR is what tells them apart.
How we deploy it
Licensing the tool is the easy part. What determines whether it works is the configuration and who is watching it.
01
Entry assessment
We map what is running on every endpoint today and what is genuinely protected.
02
Staged rollout
A pilot group first, tuned so it does not block the software your operation depends on.
03
Policy tuning
An EDR that cries wolf gets ignored, and an ignored EDR protects nothing.
04
Ongoing watch
Somebody has to answer the alert at three in the morning. That is the part we manage.
No cost and no commitment
Find out what your endpoints are actually running
We come to your offices, review how you operate and tell you what your current protection does and does not cover. You keep the written assessment.