Endpoint Protection Redefined: Protect Your Endpoints with AI-Driven Detection and Response – Powered by LMNTRIX XDR
The LMNTRIX Endpoint Security is a foundational component of the LMNTRIX XDR platform, engineered to deliver powerful endpoint protection through a unified approach that combines Next-Generation Antivirus (NGAV) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). This module moves beyond traditional endpoint security to provide proactive, multi-layered defense against modern cyber threats.
The NGAV element leverages AI-driven analytics to detect and block known and unknown threats in real time, including ransomware, malicious macros, and file-less attacks. Meanwhile, the EDR component provides deep, real-time visibility into endpoint activity, enabling rapid identification of anomalous behaviors, forensic investigation, and automated or manual response to incidents. Seamlessly integrated into both cloud and on-premises environments, LMNTRIX Endpoint Security ensures your endpoints remain secure with minimal disruption.
Whether you're defending against targeted adversaries or managing security across a distributed workforce, LMNTRIX Endpoint Security aligns with your operational objectives and delivers unparalleled endpoint resilience.
Uses AI and machine learning to identify threats—including file-less malware and ransomware—at the point of execution.
Centralized monitoring across all endpoints (EUCs and servers) provides actionable intelligence for improved decision-making.
Automated threat detection, isolation, and remediation significantly reduce response time.
Covers any machine, including end-user computing (EUC) devices and servers, whether hosted on-premises or in the cloud.
of Exploits, Malware, and File-less Attacks
Reconstructs attack paths and origin
Automated/manual handling of suspicious files
Endpoint security software consists of applications or tools installed on endpoint devices such as laptops, desktops, and servers to protect them from a wide array of cyber threats. These threats include malware, ransomware, exploits, live attacks, and malicious scripts that aim to steal data, cause financial loss, or disrupt systems and operations. By securing each individual device connected to a network, endpoint security software plays a crucial role in an organization’s overall cybersecurity strategy, preventing attackers from infiltrating the network through vulnerable endpoints.
An endpoint refers to any device that serves as a point of entry or exit within a network, where communications originate or are received. Unlike network devices that merely relay or route data (like routers or switches), endpoints are the devices that actively participate in network communications. Examples include desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets, servers, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In essence, an endpoint is any device that can connect to a network and is capable of sending or receiving data.
Yes, servers are considered endpoints within a network infrastructure. They play a vital role by hosting applications, storing data, and providing services to other devices. Servers, often running operating systems like Linux, are just as susceptible to cyber threats as other endpoints. Therefore, it’s essential to deploy robust security solutions on servers to ensure they are protected against malware, unauthorized access, and other cyber attacks, just like any other endpoint device.
Next-generation endpoint protection refers to advanced security solutions that proactively predict, prevent, and respond to cyber threats using cutting-edge technologies. Unlike traditional antivirus software that relies on signature-based detection, next-gen solutions employ machine learning, artificial intelligence, and behavioral analysis to monitor all activities within a network—including system kernel and user space operations. By evaluating patterns and identifying anomalies in real-time, these tools can detect and neutralize threats early, even those that have not been previously identified. This proactive approach enhances the ability to catch sophisticated attacks like zero-day exploits, fileless malware, and advanced persistent threats (APTs) before they can cause significant harm.
An Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) is an integrated security solution that combines multiple protective technologies into a single, unified agent deployed on endpoint devices. Its primary functions include preventing, detecting, and responding to threats across various attack vectors. Powered by machine learning and automation, an EPP offers real-time threat prevention and detection, swiftly eliminates identified threats through automated, policy-driven responses, and provides comprehensive visibility into endpoint activities. This includes full-context, real-time forensics that help security teams understand the nature and progression of attacks, enabling them to respond more effectively.
Endpoint management software refers to tools that enable organizations to centrally manage, monitor, and secure all endpoint devices within their network. By deploying agents on each device, administrators can use a management console to oversee various aspects such as software updates, security policy enforcement, threat monitoring, and response actions. This centralized approach eliminates the need for multiple disparate tools and add-ons, streamlining administrative tasks and ensuring consistent security measures are applied across all endpoints.
The most effective endpoint protection combines advanced technologies within a single, autonomous agent to defend against a broad spectrum of cyber threats. This includes integrating both static analysis (examining code before execution) and behavioral AI (monitoring actions during execution) to protect against file-based malware, fileless attacks, malicious scripts, and memory exploits. Such solutions operate continuously, whether the endpoint is online or offline, ensuring constant protection. Evaluations by independent organizations, like the MITRE ATT&CK framework, can help identify leading solutions by assessing factors such as detection rates, response capabilities, and reliance on automation versus human analysis. The best endpoint protection systems minimize missed detections, maximize high-quality threat identifications, and automate responses to neutralize threats swiftly and effectively.
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) is a cybersecurity solution that focuses on monitoring endpoint devices to detect suspicious activities and potential threats in real time. EDR tools collect and analyze data on every activity and event occurring on endpoints, such as process executions, network connections, and file modifications. By correlating this information, EDR provides critical context that helps identify advanced threats that may bypass traditional security measures. Upon detecting a threat, EDR solutions can automate response actions like isolating the infected device from the network, stopping malicious processes, or alerting security personnel, thereby containing the threat swiftly.
Active Endpoint Detection and Response (Active EDR) enhances traditional EDR by adding real-time context and automated response capabilities without requiring constant human oversight. Active EDR solutions continuously track and contextualize all activities on a device, enabling them to identify malicious actions as they happen. By understanding the relationships between processes and events, Active EDR can automate the necessary responses to neutralize threats immediately. This technology also facilitates efficient threat hunting by allowing security analysts to search using a single Indicator of Compromise (IOC), streamlining the investigation process.
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is an evolution of EDR that expands threat detection and response capabilities beyond endpoints to include multiple native security layers such as networks, cloud workloads, servers, and more. XDR also aggregates and correlates data from various 3rd party sources, providing a unified view of threats across the entire IT ecosystem through a single interface. This comprehensive visibility enhances the ability to detect complex, multi-vector attacks and accelerates triage, investigation, and remediation efforts. By automating data collection and analysis across multiple security domains, XDR helps security analysts respond to threats more quickly and effectively before they can escalate.
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms are designed for mature security operations centers (SOCs) to create and execute complex, multi-step workflows (playbooks) that automate responses across an integrated ecosystem of security tools via APIs. SOAR solutions are typically complex, requiring significant resources to implement and maintain.
In contrast, XDR offers a more streamlined, user-friendly approach, often described as “SOAR-lite.” XDR platforms provide out-of-the-box integrations and automate simpler response actions without the need for extensive coding or playbook development. While SOAR focuses on deep customization and orchestration across many tools, XDR emphasizes ease of use and quick deployment, offering automated threat detection and response capabilities that are accessible to organizations without a highly mature SOC.
The LMNTRIX EDR agent is a lightweight software component installed on endpoint devices—including desktops, laptops, servers, and virtual environments—that provides autonomous protection against cyber threats. Operating at the kernel level of the operating system, the agent monitors all processes and activities in real time. Utilizing technologies like Dynamic Behavioral Tracking, it observes and records detailed information about each event, including the origin of processes, file and registry changes, network connections, and other forensic data. This comprehensive monitoring enables the agent to detect and respond to threats autonomously, even without an active internet connection, providing continuous protection for the endpoint.
Implementing endpoint security involves deploying security agents or software across all endpoint devices within an organization. This process includes installing the endpoint protection solution on each device, ensuring proper configuration, and aligning it with the organization’s security policies. Once deployed, security teams can use centralized management tools to monitor alerts, perform threat hunting, and apply both local and global security policies. Regular updates, ongoing monitoring, and periodic assessments are essential to maintain the effectiveness of the endpoint security measures and adapt to new and emerging threats.
While antivirus software is a component of endpoint security, modern endpoint protection encompasses a much broader range of security measures. Traditional antivirus solutions primarily rely on signature-based detection to identify known malware, which can be insufficient against new or sophisticated threats. Endpoint security solutions offer advanced capabilities such as behavioral analysis, machine learning, and real-time threat detection and response. They protect against a wide variety of threats, including malware, ransomware, zero-day exploits, and fileless attacks. Therefore, while antivirus is part of endpoint security, comprehensive endpoint protection provides a more robust defense by addressing the limitations of traditional antivirus software.
An endpoint in endpoint security is any device that connects to a network and can send or receive data, serving as a point of entry or exit for network communications. Examples of endpoints include:
As technology evolves, the number and variety of endpoints continue to grow, increasing the potential attack surface for cyber threats. This expansion makes securing endpoints more critical than ever, as they often represent the frontline defense against unauthorized access and data breaches. Modern endpoint security must address the unique challenges posed by diverse devices, including mobile and IoT devices, to ensure comprehensive protection.
LMNTRIX provides robust cloud security solutions that offer several key benefits for protecting cloud workloads:
By leveraging these capabilities, organizations can enhance their cloud security posture, protect sensitive data, and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are foundational to LMNTRIX’s cybersecurity solutions, enabling advanced threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. Here’s how they contribute:
Overall, AI and machine learning enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of cybersecurity measures, providing robust protection against sophisticated cyber threats.
Norton and Symantec are brands associated with traditional antivirus solutions that have been widely used for endpoint protection. Historically, these products have relied on signature-based detection methods, where known malware signatures are used to identify and block threats. While they have been effective against known threats, this approach has limitations in detecting new or rapidly evolving malware.
In contrast, modern cybersecurity solutions like LMNTRIX have moved beyond signature-based detection. LMNTRIX employs advanced technologies such as static machine learning analysis and dynamic behavioral analysis to protect against a broader spectrum of threats. By evaluating files and processes in real time—both before execution and during runtime—without relying on signature databases, LMNTRIX can detect and neutralize zero-day exploits and fileless attacks that traditional antivirus products might miss.
Additionally, LMNTRIX ‘s approach reduces the need for frequent updates and system scans that can consume network bandwidth and impact system performance. This results in more efficient and effective endpoint protection, better suited to address the complexities of today’s cyber threat landscape.
LMNTRIX operates by leveraging patented technology designed to safeguard enterprises against a wide spectrum of cyber threats. It employs a multi-vector approach that integrates both pre-execution and on-execution artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
One of the standout features of LMNTRIX is its ability to respond to threats within milliseconds, significantly reducing the dwell time of attacks to nearly zero. The platform offers a comprehensive set of response capabilities, including:
By combining these advanced technologies and rapid response features, LMNTRIX delivers comprehensive protection that adapts to the evolving cyber threat landscape.
The LMNTRIX XDR (Extended Detection and Response) platform offers a suite of advanced features designed to provide robust and comprehensive cybersecurity solutions:
By integrating these features, LMNTRIX delivers a holistic cybersecurity solution capable of addressing modern threats across diverse infrastructures.
Yes, LMNTRIX continues to protect your device even when it is offline or disconnected from the internet. The LMNTRIX agent installed on your endpoint operates independently, utilizing locally stored AI models and analysis techniques to detect and prevent malware threats in real-time without requiring an active internet connection.
However, while the agent maintains protection on the device, the central management console’s ability to monitor and manage that specific endpoint is limited during the period of disconnection. Administrative visibility and certain remote functionalities will resume once the device reconnects to the internet, at which point the agent will synchronize updates and logs with the console.
LMNTRIX functions as more than a traditional antivirus solution. It is an autonomous cybersecurity platform designed to protect against a comprehensive range of attacks, from common malware to advanced persistent threats (APTs), whether your device is online or offline.
While it fulfills and exceeds the requirements typically associated with enterprise antivirus solutions—validated by industry authorities like MITRE, Gartner, and Forrester—LMNTRIX extends its capabilities beyond basic antivirus functions. It serves as a complete replacement for legacy antivirus, next-generation antivirus (NGAV), and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools. Additionally, it offers extensive protection across various environments, including endpoints, cloud services, containers, mobile devices, IoT devices, and data assets.
LMNTRIX can operate alongside other security tools if desired, providing flexibility in your security infrastructure while delivering comprehensive prevention, detection, and response capabilities that surpass traditional antivirus software.
LMNTRIX distinguishes itself from traditional antivirus software through several key innovations:
By integrating these advanced features into a single platform, LMNTRIX offers a comprehensive and future-proof cybersecurity solution that significantly outperforms traditional antivirus software.
Yes, you can use LMNTRIX to replace your current antivirus solution. It is designed to serve as a complete replacement for traditional antivirus software, offering advanced protection that covers and exceeds the capabilities of legacy systems. If preferred, LMNTRIX can also operate alongside existing security tools, such as Microsoft Defender, providing flexibility during transition periods or in environments where layered security is desired.
LMNTRIX XDR can replace several types of security products within your organization’s cybersecurity infrastructure:
By consolidating these functions, LMNTRIX simplifies your security stack, reduces complexity, and enhances overall protection.
Yes, LMNTRIX is designed to protect endpoints even when they are not connected to the cloud or the internet. The LMNTRIX agent performs both static and dynamic behavioral analyses locally on the endpoint, enabling it to detect and prevent threats without relying on cloud connectivity. When the endpoint reconnects to the internet, the agent synchronizes with the LMNTRIX cloud for updates and to upload logs and events to the central management console.
LMNTRIX EDR employs a multi-layered detection strategy utilizing several advanced engines:
These cascading engines work together to detect and prevent various types of attacks at different stages, providing comprehensive security coverage.
Yes, LMNTRIX offers robust malware prevention. Its Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) uses Static AI to analyze executable files before they run, replacing the need for traditional, easily bypassed signature-based methods. The platform also examines files like PDFs and Microsoft Office documents for embedded malicious code. By employing on-agent machine learning models, LMNTRIX effectively detects both common and novel malware without relying on large signature databases.
Yes, the machine learning algorithms used by LMNTRIX are directly configurable by customers using 3 available models. The AI models are developed and trained by LMNTRIX’s data science team to ensure optimal performance across all environments. Updates to these models are periodically deployed through agent software updates, eliminating the need for customers to train or customize the AI within their own environments.
Yes, LMNTRIX can detect in-memory attacks. By integrating with hardware-based technologies like Intel® Threat Detection Technology (Intel TDT), LMNTRIX gains accelerated memory scanning capabilities. This allows the platform to efficiently identify and respond to malicious activities that occur directly in system memory, which are often missed by traditional security solutions.
LMNTRIX functions as both a Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) and a Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) by monitoring and protecting individual hosts from malicious activities. Additionally, it extends beyond traditional HIDS/HIPS capabilities by offering Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), threat hunting, asset inventory, device hygiene monitoring, and other advanced security features, providing a comprehensive security solution.
LMNTRIX XDR is a Cloud-Based (SaaS) solution hosted in the cloud, such as on Amazon AWS.
Yes, LMNTRIX provides security solutions for mobile devices through the LMNTRIX Mobile agent, which extends advanced threat detection and prevention to iOS, Android and Chromebook devices. Features include Mobile Threat Defense, integration with Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions, easy deployment, and compatibility with various mobile operating systems. The Mobile Agent complements existing MDM solutions by adding robust security capabilities without replacing current device management tools.
Absolutely, LMNTRIX is well-suited for securing remote work environments. The platform offers:
These features enable organizations to maintain strong security across diverse and dispersed remote workforces.
Yes, LMNTRIX provides protection against insider threats through:
This comprehensive approach helps detect, prevent, and respond to insider threats effectively.
LMNTRIX secures IoT devices by:
This multi-faceted approach addresses the unique challenges of securing IoT devices within an enterprise environment.
LMNTRIX provides a variety of reporting features, including:
Availability of specific features may depend on your LMNTRIX plan and configuration.
Yes, LMNTRIX offers unlimited DFIR capabilities through our CDC at no extra cost, which allows:
DFIR capabilities are limited to your subscription levels. For example, without LMNTRIX Packets, our network forensics capability will be very limited.
LMNTRIX manages false positives by:
Consulting LMNTRIX Support is advised for uncertainties or assistance in managing false positives.
Yes, LMNTRIX can detect and prevent supply chain attacks through:
Additionally, LMNTRIX emphasizes best practices like supplier due diligence and robust security controls to mitigate supply chain risks.
LMNTRIX protects against malware and ransomware through:
Continuous updates and enhancements ensure LMNTRIX stays ahead of evolving malware and ransomware threats.
LMNTRIX adapts to emerging threats by:
This dynamic approach ensures LMNTRIX remains effective against the constantly evolving threat landscape.
No, LMNTRIX relies on the built in Windows firewall protection that allows administrators to:
While there are current limitations on FQDN rules and category-based blocking, LMNTRIX continues to enhance firewall capabilities to meet diverse security needs.
No, LMNTRIX relies on 3rd party solutions for FIM and DLP features. LMNTRIX EDR is exclusively focused on NGAV and EDR functions.
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