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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.

For most organizations today, endpoint protection is the primary security concern. The eBook, titled Why Autonomous XDR is Going to Replace NGAV/EDR, starts with a look at how NGAV and EDR tools can defend an organization with the "Assume breach" mentality - expecting a breach to occur and protecting endpoints from extended breach incidents.

Like most companies, you've already come across its shortcoming - and these are amplified since you have a small security team. According to a Cynet 2021 survey of CISOs with small security teams, the biggest pain point in operating threat protection products selected by 51% of companies, and with a significant gap of 38% from the second place, is the overlapping capabilities of disparate technologies.

In a new e-book recently published, CISOs with small security teams talk about the drivers for replacing their EDR/NGAV solutions with an Autonomous XDR solution and why they believe consolidation provides significant benefits to organization and team. Organizations keep adding more and more security solutions that extend visibility, yet these solutions need to be maintained, monitored, and managed, taking up quite a bit of the analyst's time.

To secure information, it is critical to have an endpoint security strategy that reliably encompasses mobile devices and embraces all their aspects. Inevitably, when EDR is used to protect all endpoints in an indistinct manner, it creates a security gap at the mobile level.

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.

McAfee announced that it is partnering with ECS to offer managed threat detection and response capabilities through McAfee MVISION EDR. ECS is the first North American MDR partner for McAfee MVISION EDR and will leverage MVISION EDR and supporting vendors to deliver a scalable, repeatable and customizable program that enables organizations to focus on only verified threats. "Protecting an organization against threats and attacks is a difficult endeavor that requires innovative technology coupled with technical know-how," said Anand Ramanathan, vice president of product and marketing, McAfee.