Then there are (mostly) older applications whose impact on system performance is arguably worse for productivity than an actual malware infection. Other times, the user will know exactly what they’re doing, and just want to circumvent some inconvenience imposed by annoying little things like company security policies. Sometimes, it will be an innocent mistake-they didn’t know what that application was doing there, so it didn’t seem like a problem if they uninstalled it. When your job is to secure and protect a customer’s computer, the last thing you want is that same customer removing the tools you’ve installed. Something else that both legitimate and malicious software have in common is persistence. That, and the fact that the baddies usually don’t display their logo as an icon in your menu bar. The main, obvious difference between the forces of Good and the forces of Evil are who they report back to.

Security solutions like EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) and DLP (Data Loss Prevention) are also designed to quietly keep tabs on the data coming and going on your devices, and report back if they find anything that looks suspicious.

However, that same description can also be applied to the software that’s used to keep your machine safe from such threats.

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