EDR agents sit at the intersection of performance, security, and user experience. This assessment scores an agent on all three at once, because a platform that wins on detection and loses on footprint will still be uninstalled.
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EDR agents get judged on detection rates, but they get uninstalled for other reasons: they slow the fleet down, they break after an update, or an attacker turns them off. An agent that scores well in a lab and badly on a developer’s laptop will not survive contact with the business. This checklist covers what an agent costs the endpoint, how well it actually detects, and whether it can be disabled — the three things vendor datasheets tend to cover unevenly.
Who it is for: Security leaders running an EDR selection, and vendors benchmarking their own agent. Works as an RFP scoring sheet for buyers, and as an honest self-assessment for vendors.
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An effective EDR agent should be nearly invisible to end users, highly visible to security teams, and extremely difficult for attackers to disable.
How many of these 15 questions would your current EDR platform confidently answer with a “Yes”?