During the Fortinet Championship Security Summit, Renee Tanum, deputy CISO at Fortinet, remarked on the increasingly sophisticated ransomware attacks that organizations face.  “We’re seeing adversaries upping their game. Threat groups that had not been active for months and years have become active given the attack surface expanding almost overnight with remote and hybrid work.”

As the prevalence of organizations adopting work-from-anywhere (WFA) policies grows, organizations are now facing more significant security gaps. But even when remote workers have secure access to critical resources, many organizations struggle to integrate those protections with the rest of their security architecture. 

Your clients need an endpoint protection solution that detects advanced threats and stops breaches and ransomware damage in real-time. As you evaluate endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions, make sure they meet your clients’ needs in the following areas:

1.     Threat Protection

An advanced EDR solution should deliver automated attack surface policy control that reduces attack surfaces with risk-based proactive policies.

2.     Ransomware Defense and Recovery

The solution should use a machine learning anti-malware engine to
stop ransomware attacks before execution. It should also enable machine learning Next-Generation Anti-Virus (NGAV) and protect disconnected endpoints with offline protection. 

3.     Real-time Detection

An EDR solution must detect and defuse file-less malware and other advanced attacks in real-time to protect data and prevent breaches. This helps prevent data exfiltration, command and control (C2) communications, file tampering and ransomware encryption. 

4.     Incident Response and Remediation

Look for an EDR solution that orchestrates incident response operations using tailor-made playbooks with cross-environment insights. It should also streamline incident response and remediation processes. Finally, it should manually or automatically roll back malicious changes done by already-contained threats—on a single device or devices across the environment. 

5.     Pre- and Post-infection Analysis

An advanced EDR solution clearly explains why an event is flagged as suspicious or malicious, and maps attacks corresponding to the MITRE ATTACK framework. It should also provide logical next steps for forensic investigation.

See how FortiEDR detects and blocks ransomware and other file-less attacks to stop breaches in real time while reducing attack surfaces and remotely remediating affected endpoints.