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While the technology has an important role to play in investigating threats, too many organizations have made the mistake of relying on EDR as their first line of defense against security breaches. EDR solutions are increasingly evaded by the latest malware and attack techniques, particularly when it comes to ransomware and zero-day exploits.

Time is a valuable asset for managed service providers (MSPs). When your customer has an endpoint infection, you need the right tools that let you respond quickly and efficiently. How fast is...

Time is a valuable asset for managed service providers (MSPs). When your customer has an endpoint infection, you need the right tools that let you respond quickly and efficiently. How fast is...

Adware strains Shlayer and Bundlore are the most common malware in macOS - although they have slight variations, they have long invaded and bypassed Xprotect, Notarization, Gatekeeper, and File Quarantine, all security features pre-built into macOS. The Uptycs threat research team has tracked these threats, along with 90% of macOS malware in routine analysis and customer telemetry alerts using shell scripts. In this post, we break down the variations of malicious shell scripts in Shlayer and Bundlore, review the macOS utilities used by these malware strains, and show how Uptycs EDR detection can help.

Microsoft Defender for Business, a new endpoint security solution specially built for small and medium-sized businesses, is now rolling out in preview worldwide.Microsoft first announced Defender for Business last month and released it in response to the 300% increase in ransomware attacks in the previous year, with over 50% of them directly impacting SMBs, according to US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

Whether you're evaluating an EDR for the first time or looking to replace your EDR, as an information security professional, you need to be aware of the gaps prior already to implementation so you can best prepare how to close the gaps. It's important to understand that each company is unique, and an EDR that a large company uses might not necessarily be the technology that works best when you are leading a small security team, even if you're within the same industry vertical.

To protect businesses from such devastating threats, IT security teams need the right tools to monitor endpoints and identify threats before they can escalate. Your EDR software should be able to prioritize these alerts for your security team and make sure they respond to the most pressing issues first.

Many organisations find themselves using more than one of these security generations at the same time, which might include several versions of EDR alone. That's because many earlier EDR systems solve one set of problems by creating a new more demanding set, namely alert overload and complexity.

The vast majority of security decision-makers acknowledge they need to address the APT risk with additional security solutions but struggle with mapping APT attack vectors to a clear-cut set of security product capabilities, which impairs their ability to choose the products that would best protect them. Cynet is now addressing this need with the definitive RFP templates for EDR/EPP and APT Protection, an expert-made security requirement list, that enables stakeholders to accelerate and optimize the evaluation process of the products they evaluate.

The Transparency Market Research team predicts the global endpoint detection and response market to expand at a CAGR of ~21 percent during the forecast period of 2020-2030. The coming years are a boon for the endpoint detection and response market as the shift to digital technologies and mechanisms is increasing rapidly across the globe.