Managed Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Managed EDR pricing typically ranges from £8 to £15 per endpoint per month depending on volume, platform mix, and service tier. Standard managed EDR for 100-250 endpoints averages £10-£12/endpoint/month including 24/7 monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response. Enterprise deployments (500+ endpoints) typically achieve £8-£10/endpoint/month with volume discounts. Premium tiers with dedicated analyst support and advanced threat hunting cost £12-£15/endpoint/month. A typical 200-endpoint deployment costs approximately £2,000-£2,400/month. Contrast this with the cost of a single SOC analyst at £40,000-£55,000/year. Managed EDR delivers around-the-clock coverage from a team of specialists at roughly the same budget. Pricing includes the EDR agent license, cloud console, 24/7 UK SOC monitoring, and full incident response. No hidden fees for investigations or containment actions. We provide fixed monthly quotes after understanding your endpoint count and platform requirements.

Traditional antivirus provides inadequate protection against modern threats: (1) Antivirus relies on signatures and can only detect known malware. It misses zero-day threats, fileless attacks, and living-off-the-land techniques. (2) Ransomware groups specifically test their payloads against common antivirus before deploying. They know how to evade signature detection. (3) Antivirus provides no visibility into what is happening on endpoints. EDR records process execution, network connections, and file modifications for threat hunting and forensics. (4) Antivirus cannot isolate compromised endpoints or kill malicious processes remotely. EDR provides immediate containment. (5) Antivirus generates no actionable alerts, just blocks or does not block. EDR provides investigation context. (6) Cyber insurance increasingly requires EDR specifically. Antivirus alone may no longer satisfy ransomware coverage requirements. Managed EDR replaces antivirus with superior protection backed by 24/7 SOC monitoring.

Managed EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) is an endpoint security service where a specialist team deploys, configures, and operates EDR software on your behalf. Instead of purchasing an EDR platform like SentinelOne or CrowdStrike and staffing a security operations team to monitor it, managed EDR provides the technology and the analyst team as a bundled service. Endpoint Detection and Response is a security technology that monitors endpoint devices (laptops, desktops, and servers) in real-time to detect and respond to threats including ransomware, fileless malware, and living-off-the-land attacks. Unlike traditional antivirus, which identifies threats by matching known malicious signatures, EDR analyses behaviour: what processes are running, what files are being modified, and what network connections are being made. For most mid-market organisations, managed EDR delivers stronger protection at lower total cost than attempting to operate EDR in-house. A useful analogy: antivirus is a lock on the door. EDR is CCTV with a 24-hour security guard who calls for help when something suspicious happens.

Traditional antivirus relies on signatures (known patterns of malicious code) and can only detect threats it has seen before. EDR uses behavioural analysis, monitoring what processes are doing, to detect novel attacks, fileless malware, and living-off-the-land techniques that antivirus cannot catch. The key differences: antivirus detects known malware only; EDR detects fileless and zero-day attacks. Antivirus has no autonomous isolation capability; EDR can isolate an endpoint from the network within seconds. Antivirus provides no threat hunting; managed EDR includes proactive threat hunting as standard. Antivirus has no forensic capability; EDR provides full endpoint timeline for incident investigation. Cyber insurers increasingly require EDR, not just antivirus, as a condition of ransomware coverage.

Many UK cyber insurers now specifically require endpoint detection and response (EDR), not just antivirus, as a condition of ransomware coverage. Some insurers will exclude ransomware claims entirely if only traditional antivirus was in place at the time of an incident. Managed EDR from a CREST-accredited provider satisfies most insurer EDR requirements and provides the documentation needed to demonstrate compliance during renewal. With ransomware claims regularly exceeding £500,000, an exclusion on the basis of inadequate endpoint protection is a significant financial risk.

Purchasing an EDR platform licence and operating it in-house is a viable option for organisations with a dedicated security operations team. The challenge is operational: a 300-endpoint SentinelOne deployment generates 50-200 alerts daily. Each alert requires investigation, contextual analysis, and a response decision. A single Tier 2 SOC analyst costs £40,000-£55,000 per year in salary, before benefits, training, or coverage gaps (holidays, sick leave, overnight shifts). Managed EDR from Precursor includes the platform licence, the 24/7 analyst team, threat hunting, and incident response at £8-£12/endpoint/month. For most organisations under 2,000 endpoints, managed EDR is lower total cost than building equivalent in-house capability.

Our SOC operates 24/7/365. If a ransomware attack starts at 11 PM on a bank holiday Friday, our UK-based analysts receive the alert, investigate the endpoint timeline, and can isolate the affected device from your network within minutes, all before your internal team is aware there is an incident. Without managed EDR, that alert sits unread until your IT team arrives. Our 24/7 Security Operations Centre in Newcastle handles all out-of-hours response as standard, with no additional charge for incident response during weekends or bank holidays.

Yes. Our managed EDR service supports Windows workstations and servers, macOS, and Linux, including cloud workloads running in AWS, Azure, and GCP. A single-agent architecture provides unified protection across all platforms, with a single management console for your team and ours.

Yes. Managed EDR detects ransomware at multiple stages: delivery (malicious email attachment or exploit), execution (suspicious process behaviour), and encryption (rapid file modification patterns). Most ransomware is blocked before a single file is encrypted. Some EDR platforms also offer rollback capability to reverse any encryption that did occur. With 24/7 UK SOC monitoring, even ransomware that evades automated detection is caught by our analysts before it can spread laterally.