Home/Glossary/Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Security software that monitors endpoints for malicious activity, enabling rapid detection and containment.

Security Operations

EDR agents collect telemetry from laptops, servers, and cloud workloads to identify suspicious behavior in real time.

What EDR solutions provide

  • Behavioral analytics to catch fileless attacks.
  • Isolation controls to quarantine compromised endpoints.
  • Investigation timelines that reconstruct attacker actions.
  • Integrations with SOAR or incident response tooling for faster containment.

Deployment best practices

  • Roll out in visibility mode, then enforce blocking.
  • Define playbooks for responding to high-severity alerts.
  • Pair with threat hunting to validate detections.