Cybersecurity
Endpoint security protects the computers and servers where most compromises begin. Mayer Networks deploys and manages endpoint protection and EDR so malicious behavior is blocked, recorded and investigated.
Security lifecycle
Endpoint security is a Protect and Detect control. It reduces what can execute on a workstation or server and records the behaviour investigators need afterwards. See the full Mayer Networks cybersecurity approach.
What it is
Workstations, laptops and servers run the browsers, email clients, user sessions, local credentials, scripts and remote-access tools an attacker needs. That makes the endpoint the place where a phishing click, a stolen password or a malicious document turns into something running inside your network.
Endpoint detection and response, or EDR, continuously observes what happens on those machines. Instead of only matching known bad files, it watches behaviour: a process encrypting files rapidly, a script pulling code from an unfamiliar host, an administrative tool being used in a way nobody would use it during normal work. When that behaviour looks like compromise, it can be blocked, the machine can be isolated from the network, and the activity is recorded for investigation.
No endpoint product prevents everything. What EDR changes is how early malicious behaviour is noticed and how much is known about it afterwards.
The problem it solves
These are the situations EDR is deployed against, and they are ordinary rather than exotic.
How Mayer Networks uses it
The agent is the easy part. The value is in coverage, tuning and the response path behind a detection.
Agents are deployed across workstations, laptops and servers, and coverage is verified against the managed device inventory rather than assumed. An unprotected server is a common finding on environments we take over.
Protection policies are tuned around the line-of-business applications the organization actually runs, so detection does not break legitimate work and staff do not ask for exclusions that quietly disable the control.
Detections are reviewed rather than accumulating in a console nobody opens, and they are escalated into the managed detection workflow when the behaviour warrants an investigation.
Where a machine is confirmed compromised, it can be isolated from the network while remaining reachable for investigation, with the containment authority agreed with the client in advance.
Rollback and cleanup are handled with the same engineers who manage the endpoint, the directory and the backups, so recovery is not handed between vendors.
Because we also run the network, Microsoft tenant and backups, an endpoint alert is read alongside what else was happening in the environment at the time.
Platform
Mayer Networks deploys and manages SentinelOne as the core endpoint-security layer, with SentinelOne Vigilance available as a specialized 24/7 analyst capability around it.
Endpoint detection and response
Behavioural detection on workstations and servers, with device isolation, detection telemetry for investigation and remediation assistance. Managed, tuned and monitored by Mayer Networks.
SentinelOne is a registered trademark of SentinelOne, Inc. Capabilities depend on the licensed product tier and the policy applied to your environment.
Layered defence
EDR is one layer. Presenting it as a complete security posture is how organizations end up exposed on the fronts it never covered.
Endpoint security works because the other layers exist around it. That is the point of the layered architecture described on the cybersecurity overview.
Lifecycle stage: Protect and Detect
The layers most closely connected to this one. Each covers a front this control does not.
We can review which workstations and servers are actually protected today, how the policy is configured, and who is reviewing the detections.
Review Endpoint CoverageModern endpoint tools detect behaviour rather than known file signatures, which is what catches an attacker using legitimate administrative tools with stolen credentials. The detection itself is a commodity; the difference is whether anything happens when it fires at 11pm on a Saturday.
That is the question worth asking any provider: who reviews the alert, what authority they have to isolate a machine, and how quickly the organization is told. An unmonitored console is a record of the incident, not a defence against it.
Antivirus blocks known bad files. EDR records endpoint behavior, detects suspicious activity patterns, and gives responders the ability to investigate and isolate a machine.
Modern agents are lightweight. Performance issues are usually caused by policy conflicts, which tuning resolves.
Yes. Servers are high-value targets and are frequently where ransomware does the most damage.
With managed detection, alerts are investigated by security personnel rather than left to the client.
Tell us what you are running and what is not working. We will tell you plainly what we would do about it.
