Executive Summary
As organizations begin to evaluate new endpoint security platforms, they have various needs to fulfill and coinciding vendor solutions to those needs to choose from. Every year, Fortinet answers thousands of requests for proposal (RFPs) or information (RFIs) regarding security solutions and has collected hundreds of unique questions just for EPP and EDR solutions. Over the past seven years, ransomware has been top of mind, and with the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous concerns around working off-site are present in these questions.
FortiEDR is an endpoint protection platform (EPP) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution designed to stop attacks before, during, and after execution, along with multiple tools global organizations use to improve security operations. This paper covers how FortiEDR helps customers check some of the common boxes between a global distribution of organizations of all sizes and from all verticals.
Protection Efficacy
Let’s start with the common denominator between all the EPP and EDR solutions, security. Outside of field tests in a proof of concept within your organization, one can look to the FortiEDR MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluation results. FortiEDR will block malware with the best of them and do it accurately without foreknowledge of the attack (for example, a new strain or zero-day attack). FortiEDR blocked all participating attacks for the second year, discovered 97% of the sub-steps, and had an analytical score of 94% (which one could state is within a top-five result out of 30 vendors).
While one could argue that these top vendors were better prepared for the independent evaluation than others, one could look to the results of the University of Piraeus’s non-sponsored and unannounced research, An Empirical Assessment of Endpoint Security Systems Against Advanced Persistent Threats Attack Vectors.1 In their first round, they performed four different attacks and were able to bypass each one of the limited numbers of EDR solutions they had access to at least once. In their second round, they added FortiEDR, which became the first solution out of the box, which could block all four of their attacks. Within the third and expanded version of the paper, FortiEDR was only one of two out of 31 types and versions of EPP/EDR solutions that could withstand their attacks. FortiEDR is designed from the ground up to be the best at attack-surface reduction.
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How FortiEDR Checks Buyers’ Boxes
