Advanced Endpoint Detection & Response

EDR is cybersecurity technology that continuously monitors computers, servers, and other endpoints for suspicious activity, helping detect, investigate, and respond to potential threats.

Unlike security tools that only react to known threats, EDR watches how devices and applications behave over time. This provides greater visibility into unusual activity across your network. VBS uses that information to help identify risks and determine when action is needed.

No. Traditional antivirus primarily looks for known malicious files and signatures. EDR provides broader visibility into device activity and can identify suspicious behaviors that may indicate a more sophisticated threat.

Antivirus remains a useful security layer, but today’s threats can use legitimate applications, compromised accounts, and other techniques that are harder to recognize. EDR helps identify these unusual behaviors as they happen. Together, these protections create a stronger defense for your endpoints.

EDR commonly protects business desktops, laptops, servers, and other supported endpoints connected to your IT environment.

This is especially valuable as employees work across offices, homes, and other locations. Each connected endpoint can potentially provide access to business applications and data. Centralized monitoring helps VBS maintain security visibility wherever supported devices are being used.

The system generates an alert that can be investigated to determine what happened and whether action is needed. Depending on the threat and configuration, response measures can also help contain affected devices or processes.

Not every unusual event is a cybersecurity incident, which is why investigation matters. EDR provides detailed information that helps distinguish legitimate activity from a potential threat. When action is necessary, faster identification can help limit how far an incident spreads.

No. EDR works best as one layer of a broader security strategy that includes email security, access controls, patching, employee training, dark web monitoring, and other safeguards.

No single cybersecurity tool can protect every part of a business. Different security layers address different ways attackers may try to gain access to your systems and information. VBS brings those layers together so your protection works as a coordinated strategy rather than a collection of separate products.

Small businesses rely heavily on connected devices, cloud applications, email, and shared data. EDR adds continuous visibility at the device level, where many cybersecurity incidents begin.

Smaller organizations face many of the same threats as larger companies but may have fewer internal resources dedicated to security. Managed EDR gives businesses access to stronger endpoint protection without requiring employees to monitor it themselves. VBS helps provide that oversight as part of a broader cybersecurity strategy.