A company's endpoints must be effectively protected to be part of its overall cybersecurity plan. While antivirus (AV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions aim to prevent endpoint security threats, they do it in very different ways.
As an advanced alternative to traditional antivirus software, EDR is quickly becoming the new standard. For decades, companies have put their faith in antivirus software as a panacea for enterprise security problems. In contrast, the limitations of "legacy" antivirus have become evident as the sophistication and prevalence of malware threats have expanded over the last decade. Considering these shortcomings of antivirus, some companies have rethought the problems with enterprise security and developed novel approaches to fixing them.