As remote work becomes more common, strong endpoint security is an ever-increasing vital component of any organisation’s cybersecurity strategy. Deploying an effective EDR security solution is essential to protect both the business and the employee from cyber threats.

EDR is designed to go beyond detection-based, reactive cyber defence. Instead, it provides security analysts with the tools that they need to proactively identify threats and protect the organisation. EDR provides a number of features that improve the organisation’s ability to manage cybersecurity risk, such as:

• Improved visibility, which is caused by EDR security solutions that perform continuous data collection and analytics, and a report to a single, centralised system. This provides a security team with full view into the state of the network’s endpoints from a single console.
• Rapid investigations should be undertaken as EDR solutions are designed to automate data collection and processing, and also contains certain response activities. This enables a security team to rapidly gain context regarding a potential security incident and quickly take steps to remediate it.
• Remediation Automation, which means that EDR solutions can automatically perform incident response activities based upon predefined rules. This enables them to block or rapidly remediate certain incidents and reduces the load on security analysts.
• And lastly, Contextualised Threat Hunting; which means that EDR solutions’ continuous data collection and analysis provide deep visibility into an endpoint’s status. This allows threat hunters to identify and investigate potential signs of an existing virus.