EDR

How it works

• A small agent on each computer records what programs do.
• It flags behaviour such as mass file encryption or a document launching a script.
• It can isolate the computer and roll back changes.
• It catches new and fileless attacks that signature-based antivirus misses.

What can go wrong (example scenario)

A four-person marketing agency's designer opened a font file from a client's shared folder. It launched a script that began encrypting the shared drive. Their antivirus never flagged it. By the time anyone noticed, two years of client work was locked.

How WILDCARD handles it

Workstation Defender is next-gen EDR built for business. It fights ransomware, fileless malware and zero-days on every business computer it covers, and it is one of the six cards in CORE.

• A dental office needs ransomware stopped mid-encryption on the practice management PC, with files rolled back.
• A law firm wants to know exactly what a suspicious attachment did after a clerk opened it.
• A retailer's point-of-sale computer gets isolated the moment something unusual runs, before card data leaves.

Example scenario: A small insurance brokerage's EDR flagged Excel launching a hidden PowerShell command on a Friday afternoon. The process was killed in under a second, the machine isolated, and the staff member learned the “policy renewal” spreadsheet had been a lure. Monday opened with nothing lost.

A question owners ask

What is the difference between antivirus and EDR?

Antivirus blocks files it recognizes. EDR watches behaviour, so it catches new attacks and shows you what happened. You want both, and EDR includes antivirus.