Managed EDR

Protect your endpoints from advanced threats

Alter Solutions' Managed Endpoint Detection and Response service leverages Machine Learning algorithms and data analytics to proactively detect and respond to sophisticated threats, offering organisations a 24/7 protection of their endpoints.

 

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What is a Managed EDR?

An Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution is a security software specialised in protecting devices on a network – like laptops, desktops, smartphones, or servers – from cyber threats. It goes beyond the scope of traditional antivirus by proactively detecting suspicious and malicious behaviours, being capable of responding to more advanced and sophisticated threats.


Alter Solutions’ Managed EDR is a service that manages your EDR and tracks all the suspicious events that are brought up by security tools. It also brings new detection rules and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) feeds to stay at pace with the threat landscape.


A Managed EDR can offer 24/7 vigilance to help organisations achieve early detection of cyberattacks on endpoints, thus enhancing their security posture and saving costs on the long term.

Why Alter Solutions’ Managed EDR?

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Improve threat detection

By continuously monitoring your assets, our Managed EDR service can keep track of all endpoint activities and swiftly detect any threat that may arise, even more complex and challenging threats.

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Reinforce protection and accelerate response

Early detection, on the one hand, and threat intelligence, on the other, naturally lead to stronger protection against cyberattacks and more efficient remediation.

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Control your costs

Investing in an in-house team to perform and EDR service 24/7 is costly and time-consuming. Outsourcing a Managed EDR will always represent cost-savings and will free up your team for other core business tasks.

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Leverage the best of AI and ML

More complex threats can only be detected after AI and ML algorithms’ in-depth analysis. This provides an additional level of protection to all company’s endpoints.

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Enjoy flexible and agnostic solutions

We are technologically agnostic, which means we support several EDR technologies and will always choose to work with the ones that best fit your organisation’s security needs.

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Access the best security experts

Our experienced cybersecurity analysts and engineers will employ the latest tools and techniques to make sure your EDR strategy is always up to date.

The Managed EDR process

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Endpoint monitoring

Continuous observation and correlation of events to detect known and unknown threats.

2
Threat Intelligence and analytics

In-depth investigation of every suspicious activity or threat.

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Incident response

Our experts take action to contain, mitigate or remediate the cybersecurity incident at hand.

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Reporting

Detailed regular reports on vulnerabilities and incidents, as well as suggested actions to improve cybersecurity posture.

EDR vs. Antivirus

 

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Antivirus (Endpoint Protection)

Approach

Proactive

Reactive

Scope

Malware and other advanced threats

Malware

Detection method

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, behavioural analysis, and signature-based matching

Signature-based (malware database) and heuristic analysis

Response capabilities

Additional capabilities to deal with advanced threats, based on data analytics. More actions are available such as file browsing, events export, remote code execution, isolation etc.

Limited automated response: after detecting malware, it is either quarantined or removed from the user’s system

Response time

Near real-time

It depends on updates to keep up with new threats, but it usually acts in real-time

 

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
  • Approach: Proactive.
  • Scope: Malware and other advanced threats.
  • Detection method: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, behavioural analysis, and signature-based matching.
  • Response capabilities: Additional capabilities to deal with advanced threats, based on data analytics. More actions are available such as file browsing, events export, remote code execution, isolation etc.
  • Response time: Near real-time.
Antivirus (Endpoint Protection)
  • Approach: Reactive.
  • Scope: Malware.
  • Detection method: Signature-based (malware database) and heuristic analysis.
  • Response capabilities: Limited automated response: after detecting malware, it is either quarantined or removed from the user’s system.
  • Response time: It depends on updates to keep up with new threats, but it usually acts in real-time.

Our solutions and partners

We are qualified

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Alter Solutions is a member of InterCERT France, a cybersecurity community which aims to strengthen each member's ability to detect and respond to security incidents

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We are ISO 27001 certified for our work towards information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection. This is the world's best-known standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS).

Our EDR models

EDR-as-a-Service (fully outsourced)

We manage your Endpoint Detection and Response operations entirely, from our own security centre, with our complete team of experts.

Hybrid EDR

You maintain your own security team and centre at the forefront, and we reinforce them with whatever resources and expertise you need.

Why Alter Solutions?

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18 years of experience

Alter Solutions was founded in Paris, in 2006, and has since focused on digital transformation. We operate in 8 countries across Europe, America and Africa, and we have been security partners for companies in the manufacturing, service, finance, insurance, transport, and technology sectors for over 10 years.

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Flexibility and customer-centric approach

We provide a level of service tailored to the client's needs, going all the way to a 24/7 protection. We have a strong track record across different sectors and technologies, and our approach to IT services is technology agnostic – what's right for each customer is what counts.

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Privacy as a core value

Both yours and your customers’ data is safe with us. Our Managed Security Service experts operate within the European Union (EU), meaning we fully comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Key certifications

Our experts are certified with GCIH, GCTI, GCFA, GCIA, and OSCP. We also hold relevant security certifications like ISO 27001, and we are part of the cybersecurity community InterCERT France.

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FAQ

Antivirus only protect endpoints from certain malwares coming from a known database of indicators of compromise, which means they cannot prevent more advanced threats, ransomware attacks, highly personalised attacks, or zero-day attacks.

EDR, on the other hand, relies on sophisticated technologies and tools to detect and respond to more complex threats in near real-time.

Typically, yes, but not always. EDR is indeed a more complete and effective approach to endpoint security than antivirus, since it can detect and respond to both known and unknown threats, however some EDR solutions may not contain the best antivirus capabilities. In those scenarios, the key is to take advantage of both solutions simultaneously.

It is a fully outsourced Managed EDR. It means that your EDR strategy is entirely set up by an external provider, whose security experts work remotely to take care of your company’s endpoint security.

Outsourcing an EDR service will allow your company to save money, when compared to investing in an in-house security team available 24/7, while keeping your internal resources focused on core business activities. This solution will also help you improve threat detection capabilities, accelerate response, and access sophisticated AI and ML technologies. You usually also get more CTI feeds and custom rules that come from the experience of our experts with other clients.

Companies of all sizes and scopes can and should have a cybersecurity strategy that contains the deployment of an EDR. There are different solutions available, some more complete, extensive, and expensive than others, so the right choice for each organisation will depend on a case-by-case analysis.

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