Incident Response Is Not an EDR Dashboard
Stop treating your EDR alerts as an incident response plan. Real IR is boring, practiced, and tested before the breach.
Incident Response
The Endpoint Journal
Antivirus, EDR, and zero trust.
Articles — Page 2
Zero Trust
Zero Trust vs. EDR: Why You Need Both for Endpoint Security
Most advice pits Zero Trust against EDR, but that's a false choice. This head-to-head shows why you need both and which to prioritize.
Zero Trust
Zero Trust Isn't a Product: Why Your EDR Won't Save You
Most attacks now bypass traditional antivirus. Here's why Zero Trust is more than a buzzword and how EDR fits into a broader strategy.
Incident Response
Stop Trusting Your EDR: Incident Response for the 29-Minute Breakout
Attackers break out in 29 minutes. Your IR plan must assume the EDR will miss it. Here's a practitioner's walkthrough to contain before the damage is ...
Incident Response
Your EDR Alone Won't Save You: Incident Response Field Notes
Think EDR is your incident response silver bullet? Wrong. Here's how to run a real response when your endpoint alert fires — from detection to post-in...
Threat Detection
What Actually Catches a Real Attack? (Hint: It’s Not Just Antivirus)
A practical look at what endpoint detection tools can and can't do—and a concrete, step-by-step plan for building a detection stack that holds up when...
Zero Trust
Zero Trust Isn't a Product: A Field Report on Endpoint Security
EDR is detective, zero trust is preventive. Here's how one security team actually applies NIST SP 800-207 and CISA's maturity model to defend endpoint...
EDR Tools
Why Your Next EDR Buy Should Start with the KEV Catalog, Not a Vendor Demo
Practical walkthrough for evaluating EDR tools: start with visibility gaps, then test against MITRE ATT&CK, and prioritize KEV-listed vulnerabilities ...
Threat Detection
Antivirus Is Dead: Why EDR Won the Threat Detection War
Antivirus alone can't stop modern attacks: 82% of detections are malware-free. EDR catches what AV misses. Here's why you need both and how to deploy ...
Zero Trust
Zero Trust Isn't Optional: My 6-Step Endpoint Security Reset
Stop patching zero trust onto legacy habits. Here's my no-nonsense walkthrough for making endpoints earn trust, from EDR to MFA.
Zero Trust
EDR vs. Antivirus in a Zero Trust World: Why I'd Ditch Legacy AV
Legacy antivirus can't keep up with malware-free attacks and 48-minute breakout times. I argue EDR is the mandatory baseline for Zero Trust, with AV a...
Zero Trust
Zero Trust for Endpoints: Why EDR Alone Isn't Enough
A field report on why Zero Trust architecture, not just EDR, is the real answer to modern endpoint attacks—and how to start.