EDR Wasn’t Built for Ephemeral Workloads, but Wiz’s CNAPP Looks Beyond Endpoints
Endpoint detection and response tools were built to watch a host that stays put. Today’s cloud workloads are too dynamic for that.
Existing runtime protection was built for persistent infrastructure, but today’s workloads run on hosts that are ephemeral by design, spun up and torn down automatically, often within minutes. It’s not fair to expect traditional tools to hold up under these circumstances. Some of these cloud instances are gone before a runtime tool even registers that they existed in the first place.
The security industry has been gradually shifting its approach to runtime protection to account for this reality, and Wiz is one of the companies leading that shift.
Cloud infrastructure broke the EDR model
Traditional runtime protection is based on a crucial assumption that no longer holds true. EDR (endpoint detection and response) and TDR (threat detection and response) tools were built for security teams that know where...
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