EDR & XDR for Greater Sudbury & Northern Ontario Businesses

Traditional antivirus mostly looks for known malicious files by signature, which means it struggles against new or modified threats. EDR watches behaviour: a process encrypting hundreds of files in seconds, a script trying to disable security tools, unusual privilege escalation. It catches attack patterns that don't match a known signature, and it gives us visibility into what actually happened, not just a blocked-file alert.

When something suspicious happens, EDR shows the full sequence: how the process started, what it touched, what it tried to do next, and which other systems it communicated with. That context is what lets us tell the difference between a false alarm and an active incident, and respond appropriately instead of guessing.

Yes. When a device shows behaviour consistent with an active threat, it can be isolated from the network almost immediately, keeping it able to communicate with our management console while cutting it off from spreading to other systems, shared drives, or servers. That containment step is often what keeps one infected laptop from becoming a company-wide incident.

The platform provides guided remediation steps and, in many cases, the ability to roll a device back to its last known clean state. Our team reviews every detection, confirms what happened, and carries out remediation, including the rollback where appropriate, then documents the incident.

It works with it. EDR is about detecting and stopping an attack early, and where possible undoing the damage on the affected device. Backup is your safety net for the data itself, especially for servers or systems where rollback isn't practical. We deploy both through the same Acronis platform, so detection and recovery aren't disconnected tools.

No, and we won't tell you otherwise. No security control, including EDR, makes any environment ransomware-proof or unhackable. What EDR does is significantly shorten the window between something going wrong and someone finding out, and it gives us the tools to contain and often reverse damage before it spreads.

No. EDR platforms like the one we deploy are built to be monitored and managed by an outsourced IT provider, which is exactly the model most small and mid-sized Northern Ontario businesses need. You get enterprise-grade detection without having to hire a security analyst.

EDR focuses on endpoints: laptops, desktops, and servers. XDR extends that same detection and correlation across additional layers, such as email, cloud workloads, and network activity, giving a more complete picture when an attack spans more than just a single device. We scope coverage based on what's actually relevant to your environment.