Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions are essentially a Next-Generation set of security tools which focus on monitoring, detecting, investigating, and mitigating malicious activities as well as possible attacks on endpoints, beyond the legacy signature-based approach used in traditional security tools.
Let's take a look at one example of where the EDR system can help:
An online shopping company's Network Operating Center (NOC) started receiving alerts for 500 internal server error logs, with 10% of transactions resulting in failure. During initial investigation, the NOC thought it was some sort of DDoS attack, but their firewalls and network intrusion detection system events didn't report ...