The comparison your MSP will not show you.
Every SMB security product on the market, from the kernel-mode category leaders to the premium SMB tiers to the OS vendor's bundled product to the value engines, operates at the operating system kernel or above. They all share one architectural ceiling. They are differentiated by price, polish, and support experience. None of them are differentiated by what layer of the stack they operate at.
Echoron operates at the network layer and the endpoint. We inspect traffic at the OS packet queue, decontaminate files, and monitor endpoint behavior, with a boot-level runtime on our roadmap. We do not replace your MSP's preferred tool. We run alongside it and inspect traffic and file content it does not look at. Content inspection applies to unencrypted traffic. No product that sits on the network can read inside an encrypted session - ours included.
- ✓Strong product, the SMB market default
- ✓Good XDR and MDR add-on options
- ×Kernel-mode agent with standard OS-layer ceiling
- ×Firmware and bootkit threats pass through it
- !MDR add-on is where the real cost lives
- ✓Enterprise-grade threat intelligence
- ✓Strong brand recognition for cyber insurance
- ×July 2024 kernel driver outage hit every tier equally
- ×The SMB tier is a stripped-down version of the enterprise product
- !Same architectural ceiling as the premium enterprise tier
- ✓Strong behavioral detection, good Mac support
- ✓Rollback capability after ransomware
- ×Kernel-level hooks have the same failure mode as competitors
- ×Rollback assumes detection happened, which it often does not
- !The mid-tier package is the cheap tier, not the complete product
- ✓Free with licenses you are already paying for
- ✓Deeply integrated with the vendor's productivity environment
- ×The OS vendor defending its own OS from attacks on that OS
- ×Threat actors engineer specifically against the default product
- !Same vendor as the OS, same architectural layer
- ✓Strong detection engine, great independent test scores
- ✓Low resource overhead
- ×Same kernel-layer operational model
- ×Signature-led; misses novel and structurally-hidden threats
- !Good tool, same architectural ceiling
- ✓Network-layer inspection at the OS packet queue, before your services see the traffic
- ✓File decontamination and behavioral endpoint monitoring, with a boot-level runtime on our roadmap
- ✓Independent of OS vendor, MSP tool, or cloud provider
- ✓Drop-in. Your current stack stays. We run alongside it.
- ✓Signatures plus structural analysis. No SOC required. Install and it runs.