Crisis/Emergency Management Solutions help organizations consistently orchestrate and manage the data, resources, expenditures, communications and tasks used for response, recovery and restoration activities during and after a crisis. C/EMP solutions are also used to analyze the changing conditions during a crisis to ensure situational awareness as well as to ensure crisis/emergency management (C/EM) procedures are in compliance with government emergency management standards. Historically, C/EMP solutions have been used by government agencies, utilities and transportation organizations to manage the large public safety impacts of a crisis. However, other industries, including financial services and HDOs, are starting to use C/EMP solutions to demonstrate command and control across a mix of internal and external stakeholders during crisis events, as well as to align with national emergency/incident response management frameworks
Gartner defines an endpoint protection platform (EPP) as security software designed to protect managed endpoints — including desktop PCs, laptop PCs, virtual desktops, mobile devices and, in some cases, servers — against known and unknown malicious attacks. EPPs provide capabilities for security teams to investigate and remediate incidents that evade prevention controls. EPP products are delivered as software agents, deployed to endpoints, and connected to centralized security analytics and management consoles. EPPs provide a defensive security control to protect end-user endpoints against known and unknown malware infections and file-less attacks using a combination of security techniques (such as static and behavioral analysis) and attack surface reduction capabilities (such as device control, host firewall management and application control). EPP prevention and protection capabilities are deployed as a part of a defense-in-depth strategy to help reduce the endpoint attack surface and minimize the risk of compromise. EPP detection and response capabilities are used to uncover, investigate and respond to endpoint threats that evade security protection, often as a part of broader threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR) capable products.
IT Resilience Orchestration (ITRO) solutions are chiefly aimed at helping to improve the reliability, speed and granularity of workload recovery due to unplanned outages by automating disaster recovery (DR) processes while lowering costs of DR exercising and DR operations staff. Gartner’s ITRO definition focuses on tools that support a majority of these capabilities: • Automated failover, failback and availability/continuity management • Replication and orchestration • Discovery, dependency mapping and workload analysis • DR management and run book creation • Reporting and validation of recovery capability
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) refers to a set of security practices and technologies designed to detect, investigate, and respond to threats targeting digital identities within an organization. These threats often involve compromised credentials, privilege escalation, or unauthorized access to sensitive systems. ITDR solutions work by continuously monitoring identity-related activities, analyzing behavior patterns, and identifying anomalies that may indicate malicious intent. Once a threat is detected, ITDR tools help security teams respond quickly by isolating affected accounts, enforcing multi-factor authentication, or initiating automated remediation workflows. As identity becomes a primary attack vector in modern cyber threats, ITDR plays a crucial role in strengthening an organization’s overall security posture.