The rise of hybrid work and digital transformation has transformed the modern workplace, offering greater flexibility, improved employee satisfaction, and increased productivity.
But as employees connect to online workplaces from home networks, personal devices, or other locations, this shift also expands the potential attack surface for cybercriminals.
Threats are becoming more frequent, complex, and large-scale, and it’s not just big corporations getting hit, either—just look at the trend of school boards facing ransomware attacks, like the recent one in Winnipeg where data was leaked. Incidents like this are a stark reminder that protecting your systems is a business imperative.
In response to the growing risks, PC Corp is taking proactive steps to evolve the cybersecurity solutions in our managed services offering. While we’ve long safeguarded our clients with anti-virus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, today’s threat landscape calls for more. We’re improving these tools to offer a new “EDR-Advanced” solution —a more robust, intelligent solution designed for the complexities of securing modern, distributed IT environments.
The Current State of Cybersecurity Threats
Organizations of all sizes—including small and midsize businesses—are now facing real-time, highly sophisticated attacks designed to bypass basic protections. Many of these threats exploit human behavior, and with some experts attributing 95% of data breaches to human error, it’s clear that even well-intentioned employees can unknowingly open the door to serious risks.
Here are just a few examples of what organizations like yours are up against:
- Weaponized Documents: Bad actors use social engineering to encourage users to download malicious files disguised as everyday PDFs or Office attachments, which give them the means to execute attacks on your network.
- Fileless Malware: These attacks operate entirely in memory and leave no trace on your hard drive — making them exceptionally difficult to detect using traditional tools.
- Zero-Day Exploits: With this method, attackers target unknown software vulnerabilities before vendors patch them.
- Ransomware: After infiltrating your system, hackers encrypt your data and shut down critical systems, often demanding payment for restoration and significantly disrupting your operations.
In this environment, staying protected demands intelligent cybersecurity measures to identify and neutralize threats before they cause harm.
Why We’re Moving Away from Traditional Anti-Virus
For years, organizations relied on traditional anti-virus software as the go-to solution for protecting their systems, using a signature-based detection approach to regularly compare code on your device to a database of known malware.
But as cyber threats have become more advanced and unpredictable, this approach is no longer enough. If a threat hasn’t already been identified and added to the anti-virus signature database, traditional anti-virus won’t recognize it as malicious—until it’s too late.
Many legacy tools also run scheduled scans once a day or even once a week. Yet when attacks can spread across your network in minutes, this delayed response window leaves businesses dangerously exposed. By the time a scan catches something suspicious, the damage may already be done.
Beyond the lack of real-time monitoring, the tool’s long, resource-heavy scans just end up slowing down devices, frustrating users when their workflows are interrupted. And when something does go wrong, the manual recovery process can be time-consuming—often requiring IT teams to dig through logs and troubleshoot misconfigurations without an easy way to restore systems to their clean state.
Simply put, traditional anti-virus can’t keep pace with modern cybercriminals who continuously adapt their tactics to bypass outdated defenses.
The Benefits of Managed Endpoint Detection and Response
Especially when paired with tactics such as practical user awareness training and a strategic disaster recovery plan, PC Corp’s robust managed endpoint detection and response solution gives your business a proactive shield against today’s cyber threats.
Managed EDR is a cybersecurity service where security tools monitor and manage endpoint activity—like laptops, desktops, and servers—to detect, triage, and respond to threats in real-time.
Using advanced AI threat detection tools that continuously monitor your systems, your organization can quickly contain and recover from attacks, stopping known and emerging threats and suspicious activity before they can take hold and gain unauthorized access.
If a device does get compromised, managed EDR can help to restore systems quickly, using automated remediation tools to address threats as they occur. You also have the ability to roll back devices to their pre-infection state. This makes it much more straightforward to avoid the significant disruptions and devastating impact that can typically come with a ransomware and malware attack.
Most importantly, you’ll have experts overseeing your environment. Cybersecurity specialists will be the ones there to manage the tool, handle threat detection, apply any necessary updates or remediation, and respond quickly to insights. Your team won’t have to manage these risks alone.
We’re Upgrading Our Endpoint Detection with More Advanced Features – Introducing New EDR-Advanced.
Cybercrime doesn’t sleep, so neither should your organization’s vigilance.
PC Corp’s new EDR-Advanced solution builds on the strengths of our standard Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) service—adding an extra layer of enterprise-grade protection, a 24×7 Security Operations Centre (SOC) service to keep your systems secure and your operations running smoothly 24/7.
The SOC team offers you access to continuous, real-time human oversight on your endpoints. Staffed by trained security analysts, who monitor, triage, and prioritize the EDR system alerts, they are on, around the clock, no matter when the system alerts occur. Critically, the SOC analysts will work in conjunction with our team, providing key insights and documentation that support our work on and off regular business hours.
Protect Your Data and Systems with PC Corp
What would you do if a data breach hits out of nowhere on a normal day of work? Emails are flying, projects are moving, and everything feels routine when suddenly, systems crash, and you’re in crisis mode. How long would it take to recover without a resilient cybersecurity posture?
Now, imagine you’re facing the same potential threat, but with PC Corp on your side. As soon as suspicious activity is detected, our EDR-Advanced defenses kick in to investigate, respond and remediate the issue.
That’s the reality we create for our organizations with our managed IT services. Not only do we help you stay ahead of threats, we’re also working diligently every day to maintain your infrastructure and optimize its functionality so your staff can work productively in a secure, high-performing environment.
Contact us to discuss how we can keep your business moving, even when the unexpected hits.
