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by 0xBDB 703 days ago
> I don't think most Linux/BSD boxes would benefit from it.

EDR isn't antivirus. It logs and detects more than it prevents, and you need that on Linux as much as Windows. You can do incident response without it if you are shipping your logs somewhere, in the sense that you can do anything without any tool, but it's certainly a lot easier with.

Possibly you need it less than on Windows since it's easier (for now) to do kernel stuff with eBPF, but then somebody has to do the kernel stuff.

Speaking as a professional red teamer, no OS has a ton of RCE, but applications do, Linux applications no less than Windows ones. Applications aside I'd rather be up against Windows in the real world because of Active Directory and SMB and users that click stuff, but Linux running a usual array of Linux server stuff is OK too.