KuppingerCole Report
Buyer's Compass
By John Tolbert

Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)

Data loss via Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), Insider Threat, and other vectors remains a top concern of businesses worldwide. EDR tools are becoming more widely used to help detect and remediate these kinds of threats. This KuppingerCole Buyer’s Compass will provide you with questions to ask vendors, criteria to select your vendor, and requirements for successful deployments. This document will prepare your organization to conduct RFIs and RFPs for EDR tools.
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Content of Tables

  1. Table 1 Mapping of the Top 15 Functional Criteria Use Cases for Endpoint Detection and Response

1 How to use the Buyer‘s Compass

This KuppingerCole Buyer’s Compass on Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) provides information about

  • Use Cases
  • Functional Selection Criteria
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2 Market segments defined

This document analyzes the EDR market segment. Most EDR products provide capabilities to detect signs of malware compromise and unauthorized activitie ...

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3 Top 5 Use Cases

The top 5 use cases for EDR are listed in table I.

Use case Description
Near real-time detection of anomalous behavior Occasiona ...
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4 Top 15 Selection Criteria - functional

When looking at products in detail - for instance, during an RFI or RFP - there frequently are hundreds of different criteria to be evaluated. However ...

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5 Top 10 Selection Criteria - non-functional

Aside from the functional selection criteria listed above, there are a number of non-functional criteria to take into account when deciding on and EDR ...

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6 Use Cases / Selection Criteria Matrix

Having identified the most important use cases and selection criteria for vendors in EDR, this section provides a matrix that maps use cases and funct ...

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7 Top 5 Prerequesites - technical

Endpoint Detection and Response, Threat Hunting, and Forensics are disciplines and tools that cannot be isolated from other areas of IT Security. Thus ...

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8 Top 8 Prerequesites - organizational

Success in Endpoint Detection and Response solution rollout depends on more than the technology selected. There are also various organizational prereq ...

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9 Top 10 Questions to ask the vendors

Aside from asking for specific features, there are some more questions that are worth asking vendors. The following questions help in understanding th ...

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