Context

An EDR agent alone is not a defensible detection strategy. Coverage, policy quality, alert triage, role models and the ability to detect relevant techniques in the local environment are what matter.

Tests against internal attack paths are especially important: credential access, lateral movement, suspicious PowerShell usage and unusual administrative activity.

Practical focus

  • Verify coverage on servers and clients
  • Validate exceptions regularly
  • Connect alerts to incident processes
  • Prioritize detection use cases against AD risks
  • Translate pentest findings into tuning actions