Why you need Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

In today's ever-expanding world of cyber threats and malicious attacks, prevention no longer guarantees 100% protection. Some attacks will always make it through prevention layers and successfully penetrate the network. Conventional solutions can’t see when this happens, leaving attackers free to dwell in your environment for days, weeks, or months.

Existing EDR solutions do help prevent these "silent failures" by finding and removing attackers quickly. However, they typically require a high level of security expertise or expensive Security Operation Center (SOC) analysts, and analysis of incidents can be extremely time-consuming.

The Acronis Advanced Security + EDR functionality overcomes these limitations by detecting attacks that have gone unnoticed, and helping you understand how an attack happened and how to prevent it from happening again. In turn, this reduces the time spent on investigating attacks.

Here's why you need EDR:

• Full visibility: Understand what happened and how it happened, even for attacks that have gone unnoticed. The evolution of each attack is also visually mapped out, step-by-step (from the initial point of entry to viewing the data that was targeted and/or exfiltrated), enabling you to quickly understand the scope and impact of an incident. For more information, see How to investigate incidents in the cyber kill chain.
• Minimize investigation time: Reduce incident investigation time from hours to just a matter of minutes. EDR details each step of the attack in clear, easy-to-understand human language, in turn helping reduce the need for expensive experts or additional headcount. For more information, see Investigating incidents
• Check for known threats on your workloads: You can automatically search your workloads for threats from malware, vulnerabilities, and other types of global events that may affect your data protection. These threats are referred to as Incidents of Compromise (IOCs), and are based on threat data received from the Cyber Protection Operations Center (CPOC). For more information, see Check for indicators of compromise (IOCs) from publicly known attacks on your workloads.
• Respond faster to incidents: With access to all post-breach activities and a breakdown of each step of the kill chain, you can perform a number of actions to remediate each attack point. Among other things, you can investigate using remote control and forensic backup (this feature is not available in the Early Access version), quarantine workloads, and kill malware processes. You can also recover business operations using Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud. For more information, see Remediating incidents.
• Report on your security posture with confidence: With EDR enabled, you can eliminate much of the insecurity and fear of the impact cyber attacks can have on your business. In addition, incident-related information is stored for 180 days, which can be used for auditing purposes.