WatchGuard EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) is a cloud-delivered security service that adds advanced detection, investigation, and response to your computers, laptops, and servers. It installs alongside your existing antivirus and includes two managed services at no extra cost: the Zero-Trust Application Service, which classifies every running process, and the Threat Hunting Service, which looks for attacker activity across your endpoint telemetry. It's built for organizations that already have prevention in place and need to find and stop threats that get past it.

Traditional antivirus relies mainly on signatures and heuristics to block known malware when it runs. It's a prevention tool with limited visibility into what happens after a file opens or a process starts. WatchGuard EDR continuously monitors endpoint activity, including process behavior, network connections, file writes, and registry changes, and uses machine learning to spot attack patterns that signatures miss. WatchGuard EDR is designed to run alongside your current antivirus. If you'd rather have prevention and EDR in one agent, WatchGuard EPDR combines both.

When EDR confirms a threat, it can respond automatically by isolating the affected endpoint from the network to stop lateral movement, terminating the malicious process, and quarantining associated files. Every action is logged in WatchGuard Cloud with full context, including the triggering event, the classification, and the steps taken. Admins can also trigger response actions manually from the console when they want a human review before containment.

Yes. The Threat Hunting Service is included with WatchGuard EDR at no extra cost. It runs hunting rules built by WatchGuard's security analysts against the telemetry collected from your endpoints, flagging high-confidence indicators of attack such as low-and-slow attacks, persistent threats, and hands-on-keyboard activity that may not have triggered an alert yet. Findings show up in WatchGuard Cloud so your team can act on them without dedicated in-house hunting expertise.

WatchGuard EDR is licensed per protected device on a subscription basis, with multiyear terms available. Licenses are activated and managed in WatchGuard Cloud, so there's no on-premises management server to maintain. Contact our team for current pricing, volume discounts, and multiyear options for your seat count.