Firewalls and antivirus software aren’t enough to ward off today’s more sophisticated cybercriminals. That’s why our cyber underwriters love to see businesses using endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, which continuously monitor any device that can be connected to a network – the figurative doors and windows a business has around its technology infrastructure – to ensure that each is secure and free of malicious activity. An endpoint might be anything from an employee workstation to a company server to a mobile phone.