RiverTrail Technology Blog

For all that pop culture has done to cultivate the slick, cool loner persona of a hacker, it bears little relation to reality. In many cases, data theft is extremely corporatized. Frankly, it can be boring.

Unfortunately, this makes it no less dangerous. These cybercriminals are quiet and meticulous in their work, invisibly pulling your data out over the course of weeks or months. The worst part: if you don’t know what to look for, you could completely miss the subtle warning signs.

Antivirus used to be the gold standard for network security. It worked like a digital “most wanted” list, catching viruses, malware, and other threats by working off a list of known threat definitions. That was well and good over a decade ago, but these days, threats change so quickly that they don’t stay on that list for long. So what's a modern business supposed to do against rapidly changing threats?

We recommend you make the shift to Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). Here’s how you can do just that.