Industry market research
Gartner Market Guide for Endpoint Detection and Response
Public summary excerpts via Gartner Peer Insights and vendor-republished extracts. Per-endpoint range bands and category-definition language draw from Gartner's public material.
Forrester Wave: Endpoint Detection and Response (most recent public summary)
Vendor positioning and feature-criteria taxonomy. Public Forrester summaries inform the AV/NGAV/EDR boundary descriptions and the response-capability tiering.
IDC Worldwide Endpoint Security Forecast (public summary)
Five-year category-spend trajectory and SMB-vs-enterprise spend ratios used in the TCO proportion charts.
Breach and threat data
Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) 2025
Initial-access vector statistics, dwell-time distributions, and breach-cost data underpinning the EDR ROI framing and the ransomware-targeted-industry list.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
Mean cost-per-incident figures, MTTD-to-claim-cost correlation, and dwell-time impact on total breach cost. Source for the $1.7M-MTTD-difference number on the cyber-insurance page.
MITRE ATT&CK Framework
The canonical technique taxonomy. Used for evaluating EDR detection coverage without naming specific vendors. Public knowledge-base.
Cyber-insurance underwriting
Coalition published underwriting guidance
Coalition's public security-control questionnaire and discount structure. Confirms EDR as baseline-required and references their recognised-vendor list.
Corvus Insurance broker materials
Public guidance on managed-detection-and-response premium differentiation and EDR-tier acceptance.
Beazley Cyber Risk Indicators
Annual report on underwriting-relevant control adoption among insureds. Source for the headcount-banded EDR requirement description.
Embroker, Cowbell, Travelers, Chubb, AIG public underwriting questionnaires
Aggregated public application materials inform the carrier-by-carrier requirement table on the cyber-insurance page.
Marsh, Aon, Risk Strategies broker publications
Public broker commentary on premium-reduction bands for EDR-equipped postures. Source for the 5 to 15 percent reduction range.
MSP and TCO research
Bellator Cyber EDR Pricing & Total Cost of Ownership for Small Business
Public TCO research from Bellator, an MSP with strong public commentary on EDR cost. Used as a non-vendor source for SMB-tier deployment cost and tuning-FTE ratios.
Forrester Total Economic Impact studies (public summaries)
Vendor-commissioned but methodologically transparent. Used for FTE-allocation ratios and category-proportion data, with awareness of vendor-favourable framing.
Methodology and disclosure
Aggregation and triangulation
All cost ranges on this site are presented as bands rather than point estimates, derived from triangulating two or more public sources. Where sources disagree, we present the wider band rather than splitting the difference.
Independence
EDRCost.com is operated by Digital Signet. We have no commercial relationship with any EDR vendor. We do not accept vendor advertising for placement on cost or comparison pages. Affiliate revenue, where present, is from MSP and cyber-insurance broker partnerships only.
Update cadence
The cost ranges and underwriter-requirement tables are reviewed quarterly and updated when public material changes materially. The 'Last verified' date in each page header is the most recent review.
What this site does not source from
We do not cite per-vendor list pricing because EDR list pricing is not published in any verifiable form by major vendors. SMB-tier products with public list pricing (CrowdStrike Falcon Go, some others) are referenced descriptively when relevant but never quoted as a market-rate indicator for the broader category.
We do not cite vendor-commissioned market-share or detection-quality reports as primary sources because of the structural conflict of interest. They may be referenced where they have entered the public discourse and where their methodology is transparent.
We do not cite affiliate-monetised review aggregators (G2, Capterra, PeerSpot, Slashdot) as price sources because their pricing data is largely user-submitted and unverified.