Endpoint security solution [EDR]

‍Enhancing Cybersecurity with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

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Are you looking to secure your digital assets and systems? Do you want to enhance your endpoint security? Are you concerned about cyber threats that bypass traditional security measures?

Endpoint detection and response, otherwise known as EDR, offers a comprehensive approach to endpoint security, providing deep visibility into endpoint processes and applications. This can help your organisation detect and respond to threats in near real-time, giving you greater control over your security.

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Highlights

• An essential component of your cybersecurity strategy.
• EDR automates monitoring, unlike some traditional methods like MDR.
• Uses IBM AI technology.
• Easy to install.
• Lightweight - use your computer while it scans. Non-disruptive operation.
• Lean and mean.

What is EDR? 

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Traditional tools often fail to detect or neutralise advanced threats, allowing them to lurk within the network and prepare for large-scale cyberattacks.

EDR addresses these limitations by providing enhanced threat detection analytics and automated response capabilities. It can identify and contain potential threats that penetrate the network perimeter, often without human intervention, preventing serious damage. EDR also offers tools for security teams to discover, investigate, and prevent suspected and emerging threats on their own

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Key Benefits

• Enhanced visibility into your organisation's network
• Real-time detection and response to threats
• High level of compliance and risk aversion
• Reduce the risk of security breaches
• Extra layer of protection against cyberattacks by reducing false positives
• Automatically collect and analyse data from all endpoints on the network

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How does EDR work?

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Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions typically combine five core capabilities:

Continuous Endpoint Data Collection

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This involves the ongoing gathering of various types of data from every endpoint device on the network, such as processes, performance, configuration changes, network connections, and end-user or device behaviours. This data is stored in a central database or data lake, typically hosted in the cloud.

Real-time Analysis and Threat Detection

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EDR utilises advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to identify patterns indicating known threats or suspicious activity as they occur. This involves looking for indicators of compromise (IOCs) and indicators of attack (IOAs) by correlating endpoint data with information from threat intelligence services and mapping data to Mitre ATT&CK, a global knowledge base of cyber threat tactics and techniques.

Automated Threat Response

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Predefined rules or machine learning algorithms that automatically alert security analysts to specific threats or suspicious activities, triage or prioritise alerts, generate reports, disconnect endpoint devices, halt processes, prevent the execution of malicious files, and trigger antivirus or anti-malware software to scan other endpoints on the network for the same threat.

Investigation and Remediation

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Investigation and remediation capabilities allow security analysts to further investigate threats using forensic analytics and then eliminate the threats by destroying malicious files, restoring damaged configurations, applying updates or patches, and updating detection rules.

Support for Threat Hunting

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Security analysts perform proactive security exercises in which they search the network for as-yet unknown threats or known threats yet to be detected or remediated by the organisation's automated cybersecurity tools. This involves using the same data sources, analytics, and automation capabilities used for threat detection, response, and remediation

Why choose EDR?

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By choosing OneDot61 EDR, you can bolster your security measures, gain increased visibility into your network, and proactively detect and respond to a wide range of cyber threats, ultimately strengthening your overall security posture.

EDR FAQs 

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Q: What is Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)?

A: EDR is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that provides deep visibility into endpoint processes and applications, allowing organisations to detect and respond to threats in near real-time. It addresses the limitations of traditional security tools by offering enhanced threat detection analytics and automated response capabilities.

Q: How does EDR work?

A: EDR solutions typically combine five core capabilities: continuous endpoint data collection, real-time analysis and threat detection, automated threat response, investigation and remediation, and support for threat hunting. These capabilities enable the ongoing gathering of data from endpoint devices, advanced analytics for threat detection, automated response to potential threats, and proactive security exercises to search for unknown or undetected threats.

Q: What are the key benefits of EDR?

A: The key benefits of EDR include enhanced visibility into the organisation's network, real-time detection and response to threats, a high level of compliance and risk aversion, reduced risk of security breaches, an extra layer of protection against cyberattacks, and the automatic collection and analysis of data from all endpoints on the network.

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Q: How is EDR different from Managed Detection and Response (MDR)?

A: EDR operates automatically, monitoring and responding to threats without the need for human intervention. It uses IBM AI technology to provide a targeted and focused approach to cybersecurity. In contrast, MDR typically involves a person or a service provider monitoring and responding to threats on behalf of the organisation.

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