What Is Application Detection and Response (ADR)?
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Application detection and response (ADR) is an emerging cybersecurity category that focuses on application visibility, protection, and remediation. ADR is a comprehensive and proactive approach to application security that incorporates automation, prioritization, contextual analysis, and allows security and development teams to facilitate enhanced threat detection and incident response.
The cybersecurity lingo landscape is filled with similar-sounding terms and their accompanying acronyms. These categories are created - mostly by analyst groups and vendors - as capabilities are needed and developed. Sometimes a category evolves out of an existing term as an extension or 'sidecar.' For instance, endpoint detection and response (EDR) was the first 'detection and response' category to be coined. Predated by antivirus software (AV), intrusion detection systems (IDS), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and even endpoint protection platforms (EPPs), EDR grew out of the need to take 'entry point' security beyond mere identification and into the realm of proactive security, complete with advanced features and functionality.