Who is Cybereason?
Cybereason is a cybersecurity vendor that provides Endpoint Detection And Response (EDR), Extended detection and response (XDR), and threat-hunting platforms for enterprise environments.
- Endpoint protection, detection, and response platform (endpoint security)
- XDR platform aggregating telemetry from endpoints and other sources (XDR)
- Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services for 24/7 monitoring and threat hunting (managed security services)
- Security analytics and incident investigation tools for Security Operations (SecOps) centers (security operations)
- Threat intelligence and malware detection capabilities focused on advanced attacks (threat intelligence)
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Cybereason provides cybersecurity platforms and services used by enterprises, public-sector entities, and other institutions to detect, investigate, and respond to malicious activity across endpoints and related IT assets. Its offerings are designed for deployment in SecOps centers and integrated into broader security architectures that include Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), identity, and network security tools. The company focuses on endpoint security and XDR, with an emphasis on correlating events across devices and infrastructure to identify complex attack campaigns.
The core Cybereason platform (endpoint security) ingests telemetry from endpoints such as servers, laptops, and workstations, including process activity, file operations, registry changes, and network connections. This data is analyzed to detect malware, ransomware, lateral movement, and other adversary techniques, aligning with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK where security teams map behaviors to known tactics and techniques. The platform is typically deployed as endpoint agents managed through a centralized console, which can be hosted in the cloud or on-premises (on-prem) depending on enterprise requirements.
Cybereason also offers an XDR platform (XDR) that correlates endpoint data with signals from additional security and IT systems, such as cloud workloads, identity platforms, and network security devices. This XDR approach is intended to give security teams a unified view across their environment, supporting incident triage, threat hunting, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) through timeline and graph-style visualizations. The platform integrates with common enterprise security stacks via APIs and connectors, enabling data exchange with SIEM platforms and ticketing or Security Orchestration Automation Response (SOAR) tools for automated workflows.
In addition to software platforms, Cybereason provides MDR offerings (managed security services) where its analysts monitor customer environments, investigate alerts, and support containment and remediation activities. These services are used by organizations that want to augment internal SOC teams or obtain around-the-clock monitoring without building full in-house capabilities. The managed services use the same underlying Cybereason technology stack while adding playbooks, operational processes, and expert analysis.
From a directory and taxonomy viewpoint, Cybereason fits into multiple security categories: EDR (endpoint security), XDR, MDR (managed security services), and SOC investigation tooling (security operations). Its platforms operate alongside identity and access management, network security, and SIEM products as part of a layered enterprise defense architecture, with a focus on high-fidelity detection, threat hunting, and incident response workflows for Windows, macOS, Linux, and hybrid cloud environments.
Our description of Cybereason. Updated December 2025.
