Security News > 2021 > October > When it comes to ransomware, every second hurts
A lot of virtual ink has flowed on the origins of NotPetya but the most important aspect of its behaviour for anyone involved in endpoint defence EDR was the stunning speed with which it turned entire networks of computers into boxes uselessly pushing warm air.
If not EDR, what then? The industry's answer was more and better EDR, plus new options such as managed detection and response and extended detection and response, which as its name suggests adds a wider range of data points to the detection mix.
The hitch is that ransomware hasn't stood still in the last four years, reaching record levels in the second half of 2020 according to detections by security company Fortinet.
In the case of Fortinet's FortiEDR, a big design goal was to make EDR easy to use for non-specialists.
Another EDR development was the realization that what happens on the endpoint isn't the only battle.
In 2018 MITRE threw EDR and endpoint defence a lifeline when it launched the Engenuity ATT&CK evaluations, designed to test the effectiveness of cybersecurity products using an open methodology whose criteria customers could peer into for themselves.
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