In light of an ever-increasing threat environment online, we’re here to present you with a guide to endpoint detection and response (EDR) to ensure your organisation can stay proactive and informed of the potential risks of operating online. It’s essential that your organisation asks this one important question:
How well is your business protected from these digital thieves who keep on attacking your business?
Effective cybersecurity measures ar critical to the success of digital transformation efforts, and keeping your corporate data – as well as the information of your clients – a tightly guarded secret. Endpoint detection and response (EDR), also known as endpoint threat detection and response (ETDR), is an integrated endpoint security solution that combines recurring monitoring and collection of endpoint data to more increasingly. It comes with certain rules made of automated response and threat detection capabilities.
What is EDR?
The term was coined by Anton Chuvkin at Gartner to describe the emerging security systems that detect and inspect suspicious malware that threatens endpoints and hosts. It engages a high point of the security plan which immediately identifies and responds to the threat.
Learning what an is EDR and choosing the right solution means covering a range of trade offerings that differentiate greatly in scope and efficacy.
EDR is often compared to Antivirus. Antivirus is basically a component used as a prevention for endpoint security, which prevents threats from entering a network. When a threat escalates through an antivirus, EDR detects that activity and notify the security personnel.
The Primary functions of an EDR security system are to:
Capture and collect activity data from endpoints that could hint at the presence of a threat.
1. Analyze the data to identify threat patterns
2. Automatically respond to identified threats to remove or contain them while notifying ICT personnel
3. Forensics and analysis tools to research identified threats and search for suspicious activities.
EDR Capabilities
Below are the effective EDR must include the following capabilities:
- Identify Threats:
EDR quickly identifies real-time visibility across all your endpoints allows you to view malicious activities, if they try to attempt to breach your information, and stop them immediately.
- Threat Database:
Effective EDR requires the storage of database channels where massive amounts of threats from endpoints can be investigated for signs of attack with a variety.
- Behavioural Protection:
As soon as the threat detected from the endpoint networking, it pushes back the immediate response. Effective EDR also sends signals of types of threats that attacked your information and protect it by analyzing its solution.
- Alerting Power:
Endpoint detection and response solution that integrates threat information which can provide an alert, including details on the attributed adversary that is attacking you or other information about the attack.
- Quick Response:
EDR that enables a fast and accurate response to incidents can stop an attack before it becomes a breach and allow your organization to get back to business quickly.
- Cloud-based Solution:
Having a cloud-based endpoint detection and response solution is the only way to ensure zero impact on endpoints while making sure capabilities such as search, analysis, and investigation can be done accurately and in real-time
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Importance of EDR
The following are some reasons EDR should be a part of your organization security strategy:
1. Prevention alone can’t ensure 100 percent protection, engaging in the end to end restoration plans can help you prevent you from further attacks.
2. Because of the silent nature of attackers, they can roll out inside your organization and could be a threat that could breach not only your’s but third party information as well.
3. Organizations lack the visibility to monitor endpoints could be extremely dangerous. EDTR could at least instantly detect the signs of attacks.
4. EDR can effectively provide access to the endpoints hosts, can quickly restore the information.
5. If EDR not installed and placed in the organization then hefty fines and remediation can be protracted and costly for the breach of information.
The goal of ISO 27001 is to provide a framework of standards for how a modern organization should manage their information and data.
ISO maturity is a sign of a secure, reliable organization that can be trusted with data. Contact us now to find out how you can protect your information security with the implementation of an Information Security Management System like ISO 27001.
