What is EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response)?
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) provides real-time telemetry, behavioral analysis, and automated response capabilities across enterprise computers and servers to intercept sophisticated cyber attacks that bypass traditional perimeter defenses.
Continuous behavioral monitoring, threat hunting, and automated incident containment capability deployed directly on workstation and server endpoints.
Why Does It Matter?
Legacy signature-based antivirus cannot stop fileless malware, in-memory exploits, and Living-off-the-Land (LotL) attacks. EDR tracks malicious process behavior, network connections, and command execution in real time to neutralize zero-day threats.
Core Principles & How It Works
What Threats Arise from Inadequate Protection?
- ✕Fileless in-memory malware that leaves no identifiable binary signature on the filesystem.
- ✕Advanced persistent threat (APT) actors executing lateral movement using built-in administrative tools (WMI, PsExec).
- ✕Command-and-control (C2) beaconing establishing remote persistence on internal server nodes.
How Does Moftgate Solve This Challenge?
Moftgate unifies centralized endpoint management with continuous process telemetry, enforcing hardening baselines and feeding enriched event streams to your SIEM/EDR platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar) via bidirectional APIs.
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Other Cybersecurity Terms
Full Glossary →Central management of computers, servers and mobile devices for inventory, patching, software deployment and policy.
A platform that collects security event logs from different systems in one place, correlates them and raises alerts.
Harm to data, or a data leak, caused on purpose or by mistake by an authorized person inside the organization.
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