Edge Malware Detection, Explained
Endpoint antivirus reacts after malware arrives. Edge detection stops it in transit. Here's how behavioral inspection neutralizes threats before they ever reach you.
In-transit vs. on-device
Endpoint tools scan files once they've landed on a machine. Edge detection inspects traffic as it flows through the network, catching malicious payloads before they reach your servers or your users at all.
Beyond signatures
Signature databases only know yesterday's threats. Behavioral heuristics score requests on how they act — unusual payload structure, obfuscation and exploit patterns — so novel and zero-day attacks are caught without a prior sample.
Inline quarantine
When a request looks malicious, it's isolated and dropped at the edge node closest to the attacker. Your origin never processes it, which also means attacks can't consume your compute or bandwidth.
Shared global intelligence
A threat seen at one of 312 edge locations instantly informs defenses everywhere. The network gets smarter with every attack it absorbs, protecting all origins inside the sphere.
Explore Malware Detection
See how Endasphere puts this into practice.