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Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Tools

Endpoint Detection & Response

What is Endpoint Detection & Response Tools?

Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) software uses endpoint management and anti-virus strategies to discover and remove malicious software.

Common Features

  • Whitelisting Blacklisting
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • Intrusion Detection Prevention
  • Automated Threat Response
  • Behavioural Analytics
  • Task Prioritization
  • Machine Learning
  • Malware Identification Accuracy
  • Agent Efficiency
  • IOC Tools
  • IOC Consumption
  • IR Capabilities
  • Analyst Workflows
  • API Integration

Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Tools

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Products: 13
Next Award: Jun 2025

Top Endpoint Detection & Response Tools 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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Malwarebytes

ThreatDown EDR

Composite Score
9.1 /10
CX Score
9.4 /10

ThreatDown EDR (endpoint detection and response) is enriched by Malwarebytes global threat intelligence and its patented remediation engine that removes every trace of malware to prevent reinfection. Seven-day ransomware rollback ensures organizations can turn the clock back on attacks and restore systems.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Security Protects
  • Enables Productivity
  • Saves Time
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Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10

The CrowdStrike Falcon platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Caring
  • Reliable
  • Efficient Service
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Composite Score
8.6 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

The Huntress Managed Security Platform quickly deploy and manage real-time protection for endpoints, email, and employees - all from a single dashboard. Protecting endpoints and Microsoft 365 identities doesn’t happen magically. See the features and services that act as our platform’s foundation.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Badge Winner
Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.8 /10

SentinelOne Singularity platform is an industry-first data lake that seamlessly fuses together the data, access, control, and integration planes of its endpoint protection (EPP), endpoint detection and response (EDR), IoT security, and cloud workload protection (CWPP) into a centralized platform. With Singularity, organizations gain access to back-end data across the organization through a single solution, providing a cohesive view of their network and assets by adding a real time, autonomous security layer across all enterprise assets.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
Badge Winner
Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Protect and empower your workforce with an integrated security framework that protects every endpoint. Trellix (formerly McAfee Mvision) endpoint security solutions apply proactive threat intelligence and defenses across the entire attack lifecycle to keep your organization safer and more resilient.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Respectful
Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

With comprehensive coverage across the modern environment, InsightIDR goes beyond the scope of traditional SIEMs to provide highly reliable threat detection out of the box and advanced environment visibility when teams need it. Critical to InsightIDR’s holistic coverage is real-time endpoint detection and response, which is necessary for identifying the early signs of an attack. With InsightIDR, customers can leverage Rapid7’s universal Insight Agent to access real-time endpoint scanning and threat detection alerts out of the box.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Trend Vision One is a purpose-built threat defense platform that provides added value and new benefits beyond XDR solutions, allowing you to see more and respond faster. Providing deep and broad extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities that collect and automatically correlate data across multiple security layers—email, endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and networks—Trend Micro Vision One prevents the majority of attacks with automated protection.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise endpoint security platform designed to help enterprise networks prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats. Defender for Endpoint customers need to apply for the Microsoft Threat Experts managed threat hunting service to get proactive Targeted Attack Notifications and to collaborate with experts on demand. Experts on Demand is an add-on service. Targeted Attack Notifications are always included after you have been accepted into Microsoft Threat Experts managed threat hunting service.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Helps Innovate
Badge Winner
Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Sophos Intercept X Endpoint delivers unparalleled protection, stopping advanced attacks before they impact your systems. Powerful endpoint and extended detection and response (EDR/XDR) tools let your organization hunt for, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity and indicators of an attack. Sophos Intercept X combines ransomware protection, deep learning malware detection, exploit prevention, EDR, and more in a single solution.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Security Protects
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Badge Winner
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Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Cortex XDR

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

To stay ahead of fast-moving threats, you need AI-powered endpoint security that continuously learns new attack techniques. Cortex XDR™ offers protection that blocks all malware, exploits and fileless attacks to keep your endpoints safe

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Efficient Service
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Includes Product Enhancements